It’s never been a perfect world. It’s never going to be. It’s going to be hard and scary, and if you’re lucky, wonderful and awe-inspiring. But you have to push through the bad parts to get to the good.

from The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan

‘Love isn’t moral or immoral,’ said Clary. ‘It just is.’

from City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn’t a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

from Unwind by Neal Shusterman

Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don’t.

from Partials by Dan Wells

Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it’s not what we want, at least it’s something.

from Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen

You’re the girl who called me an asshole the first time we spoke. The girl who tried to pay for lunch even after you learned I have more money than God. You’re the girl who risked her ass to save a dying dog, who makes my chest ache whether you’re wearing green silk or ripped jeans. You’re the girl that I—” Noah stopped, then took a step closer to me. “You are my girl.

from The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

// that's quite a girl :)

It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can’t see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people. She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her to be.

from The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks by E Lockhart

Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there’s no one left to tell those stories? To hear them? Who will ever know that I existed? What if we are the only ones left — who will know our stories then? Who will remember those?

from The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

I’ve run out of words. My pockets are full of letters I can’t string together and I’m so desperate to say something that I say nothing and my heart is about to burst through my chest.

from Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can’t see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people. She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her to be.

from The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks by E Lockhart

There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.

from The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket

Sometimes it’s better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn’t clear cut, there are always grey areas.
from Halo by Alexandra Adornetto

See You.

Never say goodbye because saying goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting
- Peter Pan
source Hold The Candle

We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands. A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as sweet or as fiesty; we are thickly layered, page upon lying page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding. It can rip us apart or hold us together.

from Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti

‘Art like that doesn’t need words. That painting tells you something by pulling you into it and pushing you out, and you know what it’s saying without words being spoken.’

from Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley

Music is a total constant. That’s why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment.

from Just Listen by Sarah Dessen

I have been taught that love is beautiful and kind, but it isn’t like that at all. It is beautiful, but it’s a terrible beauty, a ruthless one, and you fall-you fall, and the thing is- The thing is you want to. You don’t care what’s coming you just want who your heart beats for.

from The Unwritten Rule by Elizabeth Scott

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

from Eldest by Cristopher Paolini

That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.

from Paper Towns by John Green

Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal.

from If I Stay by Gayle Forman