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bookstimesinfinity · 3 days
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The Summer I Turned Pretty is so easy on the heart. I read like 100 pages in an hour and god, I didn't want to stop. It's the same feeling of discovering your favourite ya book when you're in your teens and wish to escape for as long as you can.
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bookstimesinfinity · 3 months
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How else do you think life happens? A series of coincidences and occurrences have to happen somehow. Our lives all crash and collide and you think there's no reason or rhyme to it? If there wasn't any reason for it all, what would be the point? Why do you think anything happens at all?
-Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life
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bookstimesinfinity · 3 months
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Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants.
-Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life
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bookstimesinfinity · 3 months
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“Based on the experience of my life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it’s not broke, don’t fix it. And would go even further too: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you’ll probably make it worse.”
— George Saunders, Tenth of December
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bookstimesinfinity · 4 months
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“The person you love best, you share the world with. When that person’s gone the world remains but it isn’t the same thing, it’s at a distance.”
— Joyce Carol Oates, Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
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bookstimesinfinity · 4 months
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“I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment—we are all defined by something we can’t change.”
— Simon Van Booy
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bookstimesinfinity · 5 months
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“How insufficient is all wisdom without love.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Journals
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bookstimesinfinity · 5 months
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“Let everything happen to you: Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Go to the Limits of Your Longing
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bookstimesinfinity · 5 months
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The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
Viktor E. Frankl
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bookstimesinfinity · 5 months
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“What do you say when you’re not enough to make someone stay? What do you do when you meet the love of your life and realize it’s all about timing? How do you accept that no matter how perfect you are for each other, circumstances get in the way? How do you compete with that kind of fate?”
— Katie Kacvinsky, First Comes Love
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bookstimesinfinity · 5 months
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“Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them… awakening feelings that gather into great armies.”
— Mark Helprin
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bookstimesinfinity · 5 months
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“Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.”
— Wendell Johnson
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bookstimesinfinity · 5 months
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Being yours does not make you mine.
-Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love
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bookstimesinfinity · 5 months
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“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”
— John Irving, The Cider House Rules
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bookstimesinfinity · 5 months
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“Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things — they save you.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
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bookstimesinfinity · 5 months
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Amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it exactly where you needed to be.
-Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
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bookstimesinfinity · 5 months
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You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try.
-Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
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