"Have you ever confused a dream with real life?"

Suzanna Kayson, Girl Interrupted

"A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself."

Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

"If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin."

Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

"We talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first people in history to ever get it exactly right."

Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You

"They yell at me because I can’t see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs."

Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

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"You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet.."

Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

"None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we’re safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is."

David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

"It’s like the hidden secret that no one tells you. We can all be beautiful girls. It’s like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along."

Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

"There are not many people in this world with the ability to give you butterflies, and if you don’t tell those people how you feel, It’ll be like spending the rest of your life in your own personal prison."

Dawson’s Creek

"Hugging. Except there is too much contact between necks, between the softness at the intersection of neck and jaw,not enough friendly vigor, too much of the world falling silent while they hold onto each other."

Haley Tanner, Vaclav and Lena

"I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem."

Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

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"There is no going back once you know something, because from then on, you always know it."

Haley Tanner, Vaclav & Lena

"That’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet."

 Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close