Lauren Oliver quote: "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?"<br />"I don't know any other way."<br />"Let me show you."<br />And then we're kissing. Or at least, I think we're kissing—I've only seen it done a couple of times, quick closed-mouth pecks at weddings or on formal occasions. But this isn't like anything I've ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: this is like music or dancing but better than both."

firestar: jayfeather what does mallow look like?
jayfeather: i dont know, ive never seen any
ERIN HUNTER

You can know someone all your life, like your parents or family, but I’ll tell you this, Ned. Ther...
MELINA MARCHETTA

Oh, by the way, is this your armor? (Grace)
It is, or was. (Julian)
Can we keep it? (Grace...
SHERRILYN KENYON

Look up here, I'm in heaven!
I've got scars that can't be seen
I've got drama, can't be st...
DAVID BOWIE

Alec licked his spoon, then set it on the table and popped his drink open. "Okay, I may be breaking ...
RACHEL VINCENT

... so this is for us.
This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love
and...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON

You will not! It's wrong."
"What, kissing you, or kissing you in Pies and Stuff?
RICHELLE MEAD

If losing is dancing with someone or even kissing someone who cares for you like I undoubtedly care ...
S.L. SCOTT

Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get
away, or whether you do...
KENNETH GRAHAME

No, I know,” Levi said. “But it’s not you. You don’t push through every moment. You pay atte...
RAINBOW ROWELL

How do you even know I'm someone you'll want to remember? We've only seen each other once before.' CHRISTINA WESTOVER

It’s this or nothing at all.
R.J. GROVES

6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,
and I still don’t know which month it was then
or what day it...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you directly without problems o...
PABLO NERUDA

Let me tell you, you either have chemistry or you don't, and you better have it, or it's like kissin...
DEB CALETTI

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the...
ROALD DAHL

My pulse whooshed in my ears so fast I could barely hear myself speak. “I only have—”
“...
RACHEL VINCENT

The World

"You know the saddest thing," she said. "The saddest thing is that we're you."<...
NEIL GAIMAN

The way I feel about you . . . it’s crazy.”
“You got the crazy part right,” she snapped...
JAMIE MCGUIRE

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or ...
PABLO NERUDA

Tell me what I can do to help you feel better."

Well...I always like when you kiss me...<...
KRISTIN CASHORE

Tell me again about the girl whose hands
have no color. Whose hands are completely
white. ...
REBECCA WADLINGER

You seem a lot like me," he said. "You don't gawk at me like I'm a freak."

"I'll kick any...
ELLEN SCHREIBER

I know
you and I
are not about poems or
other sentimental bullshit
but I have t...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS

You know they say confession is good for the soul, right?

"I think that applies unless yo...
AMY ANDREWS

ARE YOU SUGGESTING THAT I WILL KILL THE CAT BY LOOKING AT IT?
- It's not quite like that, sir<...
TERRY PRATCHETT

and you invented me
and I invented you
and that's why we don't
get along
on this...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

He looks at me. His face is dotted with raindrops but I think there are tears too.
'I love her...
SALLY GREEN

This whole career has been way more than I ever even imagined or dreamed.
JENNIE FINCH

Hanged"
I hung myself today. Hanged? Whatever,
the point is I hanged myself today and I’...
BO BURNHAM

I will miss
my chest exploding
you coming home late
not turning on the light
alw...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON

Hey I'm sorry about the other day. Didn't mean to give you a hard time, I ---"

He held u...
KIERA CASS

You made me laugh at your jokes.
You made me cry at your criticism.
You made me shout at y...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH

I asked the Zebra,
are you black with white stripes?
Or white with black stripes?
...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN

I wasn't born to cook or clean,
but to read and write,
if you don't like me the way I am,<...
BESA KOSOVA

I have never seen nothing like that, never heard anything like that. There's no other way to tell me...
EARL HOLMES

Is there a problem, Ms. Parker? Something you want to say to me?" Reaching for his tie, he began to ...
RACHAEL WADE

I am not the first person you loved.
You are not the first person I looked at
with a mouth...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS

Are you sure you know where you're going?" Andrea frowned.
"Would you like me to pull over and ...
ILONA ANDREWS

Was that me? Yes it was. Was that him? No it wasn't..
Just a trick of the woods!
Just ...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM

The Type

Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else. -Richard Siken SARAH KAY

What are you getting at? I demanded. Are you saying you know somthing about me? For a moment she was...
KIRSTEN MILLER

Before You post

*Will this ultimately glorify me or God?
*Will this stir or muffle ...
TONY REINKE

... and you might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I tho...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON

Do you even know,” she said, and I could tell from the sound of her voice that she was about to cr...
ANN LECKIE

Like what she felt when she looked at the Lagoon Nebula.
Or imagined galaxies gathered into dus...
L.J. SMITH

I asked the zebra,
Are you black with white strips?
Or white with black strips?
And the zeb...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN

my dear

show me i am with you . other way
show me you are with me . not seeing
LITYMUNSHI

It is not any common earth,
Water or wood or air,
But Merlin’s Isle of Gramarye
Tha...
RUDYARD KIPLING

Exactly when will you give up?

When things will seem out of your hands ?

When ...
SANHITA BARUAH

Six Beliefs That Set the Course of Your Life

1. If you don’t believe the impossi...
SHANNON L. ALDER

To the most inconsiderate asshole of a friend,
I’m writing you this letter because I know tha...
CECELIA AHERN

We have no evidence at this time of anything else being done, feces thrown around or as a weapon, or...
ANDRES DURBAK

You may not remember the time you let me go first.
Or the time you dropped back to tell me it ...
BRIAN ANDREAS

my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Adrian looked over at me again. “Who knows more about male weakness: you or me?”

“G...
RICHELLE MEAD

Why didn't you kill me like you did that guy back there? Billy? Or does it even make any sense to as...
STEPHEN KING

Did you know I always thought you were braver than me? Did you ever guess that that was why I was so...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without c...
PABLO NERUDA

I felt ashamed."

"But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?"
...
C.S. LEWIS

listen, a goad's anything that provokes or incites an enemy
---
let me have a go: cursed d...
JONATHAN STROUD

Dear Max -

You looked so beautiful today. I'm going to remember what you looked like for...
JAMES PATTERSON

They'll say you are bad
or perhaps you are mad
or at least you
should stay undercove...
DAVID ROVICS

Here. Let me untangle your hair, at least. If we need to run, we can't have you stuck."
"I don'...
KRISTAN HIGGINS

You do not know me for sure, yet you feel yourself better than me.
But if you ever deliberately...
TOBA BETA

I will never let you know how much you hurt me
No, I will never tell you
The lasts few m...
HENRY ROLLINS

You are being self-pitying."
"I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear."
...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,
or arrow of carnations that propagate...
PABLO NERUDA

Okay, so if that's not real, what
is? What counts, to you?"
He thought for a second, then ...
SARAH DESSEN

There were people who went to sleep last night,
poor and rich and white and black,
but t...
MAYA ANGELOU

A Gift for You
I send you...

The gift of a letter from your wise self. This is the p...
S.A.R.K.

I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color,
but I’ve seen flowers bloom a...
ANDREA GIBSON

What is infinity? I haven’t a clue.
But maybe that’s the whole point I’ve been attempting...
F.K. PRESTON

And then there is that day when all around,
all around you hear the dropping of the apples, one...
RAY BRADBURY

Dear Miss Independent,

I've decided that of all the women I've ever known, you are the on...
LISA KLEYPAS

Roarke: "I'll drop you."

Eve: "No, better I catch a cab or take the underground. This guy...
J.D. ROBB

Or music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but you are the music
While the musi...
T.S. ELIOT

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
...
T.S. ELIOT

We've known each other for almost half our lives.
I've seen you smiling, confident, blissfully ...
JILL SANTOPOLO

Did you say all that you meant to
Before the curtain closed?
Or did you feel so much more<...
MARGO T. ROSE

I look up, and he’s searching my eyes, just like he did after kissing me for the first time in the...
BETH REVIS

Can I say something?'
'Go on'
'I'm a little drunk'
'Me too. That's okay.'
'Just....
DAVID NICHOLLS

This is the only truly original show now on Broadway. It doesn't come from any other play or film or...
JOE BROOKS

Sometimes your gaze alone scares me. Sometimes I've never seen you before. I no longer know what you...
MARGUERITE DURAS

THE INVITATION
by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

It doesn't interest me what you do for a li...
ORIAH MOUNTAIN DREAMER

Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co...
ALICE WALKER

Tell me, Nana,
If for example we had been a love couple,
Would a hug have been enough to w...
AI YAZAWA

Because like the depths of the ocean that calls you home, you will never be easy.

But dar...
JEANETTE LEBLANC

If you think of something, do it.

Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this,...
LYDIA DAVIS

Mom." I couldn't believe she was doing this again. She was taking this moment, this time when I was ...
SARAH DESSEN

Why I Cannot Relate

"What do you think of this piece?" Someone will ask
About some w...
KYLEE CARRIER

You should’ve seen the way he was looking at you while you were out.”
I smiled a little. �...
MICHELLE HODKIN

Some would say it is madness to want a woman this way,
but I think it must be love. Not the tep...
BETTIE SHARPE

I still don’t know where the river begins, or where it ends. I don’t know where it comes from, o...
MICHAEL CHROBAK

unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

I promise you
I will try harder
to be better.
I
have battled with things
...
TYLER KNOTT GREGSON

I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with.
Tell me why you loved...
ANDREA GIBSON

My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?"...
ROALD DAHL

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