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“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“How did it get so late so soon?”
― Dr. Seuss

“You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
― Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing.”
― Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ...Scarlett, always save something to fear— even as you save something to love...”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“I wish to go on living even after my death.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“And there it is, against all hope, like the sun peeking out from behind the clouds. The smallest hint of a smile.”
― Amie Kaufman, These Broken Stars

“I am frequently underestimated. I think it's because I'm short.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“You have to be odd to be number one”
― Dr. Seuss

“I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.”
― Rachel Cohn & David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?”
― Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
― Anne Frank

“In a weak moment, I have written a book.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

“I do my best to please everybody, far more than they'd ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don't want to let them see my trouble.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Okay?
Okay.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You bookish little pervert.”
― Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“Well fiddle dee dee!”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”
― Rachel Cohn & David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“May I see you again?" he asked. There was an endearing nervousness in his voice.

I smiled. "Sure."

"Tomorrow?" he asked.

"Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager.

"Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow." I rolled my eyes. "I'm serious," he said.

"You don't even know me," I said. I grabbed the book from the center console. "How about I call you when I finish this?"

"But you don't even have my phone number," he said.

"I strongly suspect you wrote it in this book."

He broke out into that goofy smile. "And you say we don't know each other.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars