I am so sad it makes me heavier than the sum of my parts.
— Courtney Summers, This is Not a Test
3
1 week ago
tagged: lit, quote, book, sara zarr, how to save a life, life, living,
That’s how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it; everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I’m still waiting.
— Sara Zarr, How to Save a Life
4
2 weeks ago
tagged: lit, quote, book, josephine angelini, dreamless, dreams,
Remember that dreams do come true, but that they don’t come easily.
— Josephine Angelini, Dreamless
I know you aren’t perfect. But it’s a person’s imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.
— Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door
What is this power the dead have over the ones they leave behind? It’s strange and beautiful and frightening, this deathless love that human beings continue to feel for the ones they’ve lost.
— Sangu Mandanna, The Lost Girl
0
1 month ago
tagged: lit, quote, book, life, reality, surprises, goliath, scott westerfeld,
But that was what kept the world interesting … reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.
— Scott Westerfeld, Goliath
43
1 month ago
tagged: lit, quote, book, tears, crying, insurgent, veronica roth,
I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity.
— Veronica Roth, Insurgent
3
4 months ago
tagged: quote, skins, effy stonem, relevant, life, kaya scodelario,
But I can’t not know. I can handle it. I think I can handle it.
— Effy Stonem, Skins
4
5 months ago
tagged: lit, quote, dandelion wine, ray bradbury, love, life, time,
Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. The cogs miss, the wheels turn, and lives interlace too early or too late.
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Sunsets we always liked because they only happen once and go away.
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
10
5 months ago
tagged: lit, quote, book, oscar wao, junot diaz,
Good news might travel like thunder, but bad news travels like light.
— Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
23
5 months ago
tagged: book, lit, quote, junot diaz, oscar wao, love,
I’ve waited forever to be in love, he wrote his sister. How many times I thought this is never going to happen to me … It’s like I swallowed a piece of heaven … You can’t imagine how it feels.
Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao