“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
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Author of *Learning about dogs*.
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“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did a...”
“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sens...”
“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
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“Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about h...”
“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
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“Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”
“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
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“Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice...”
“They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.”
“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
“because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when...”
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“The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
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“It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
“Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always”
“I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”
“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”
“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
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“If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
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“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”