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#1

“Do not find peace. Find passion.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Retribution of Mara Dyer

#2

“They are all innocent until proven guilty. But not me. I am a liar until I am proven honest.”
― Louise O'Neill, Asking For It

tags: double-standards, rape, rape-culture, sexism

239 likes

#3

“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

tags: 2013, goodbye, james-carstairs, life, magnus-bane, william-herondale

3655 likes

#4

“I am catastrophically in love with you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

tags: tessa, will

2302 likes

#5

“Do not let any of them tell you who you are. You are the flame that cannot be put out. You are the star that cannot be lost. You are who you have always been, and that is enough and more than enough. Anyone who looks at you and sees darkness is blind.”
― Cassandra Clare, Nothing but Shadows

125 likes

#6

“She was in love with you,” he says. “And I don’t think she got to tell you, did she?”

My heart lurches, seizes inside my chest, fluttering to life at the words I’ve always wanted to hear. I shake my head. Tears spill down my cheeks.

“She loved you. She wanted to be with you. That’s why she told me about herself. She said she’d made her choice. It was you. I think it was always you.”
― Tess Sharpe, Far From You

tags: love, mina, sophie

26 likes

#7

“I will be stronger than my sadness.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

tags: depression, fight, life, mental-illness, sadness, struggle

484 likes

#8

“That’s how it is when a person develops an attraction toward someone. He’s nowhere, then suddenly he’s everywhere, whether you want him to be or not.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

563 likes

#9

“We try so hard to hide everything we're really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

1242 likes

#10

“I don't say what I'm thinking. I don't tell him how lucky he is, that he can just sit there and admit it, sheepish, but unashamed. Like it's his right. Like it's okay, because she's supposed to belong to someone like him, instead of someone like me.”
― Tess Sharpe, Far From You

tags: heteronormativity

46 likes

#11

“Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

tags: hurt, problem

1419 likes

#12

“Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.”
― Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two

tags: death, death-of-a-loved-one, left-behind, love

523 likes

#13

“You shouldn’t have to convince anyone to choose you. There is no real choice in love.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love

220 likes

#14

“Let people feel the weight of who you really are, and let them fucking deal with it.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love

270 likes

#15

“The best kind of love is the love that isn't supposed to happen.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love

127 likes

#16

“The easiest way to steal a man’s wallet is to tell him you’re going to steal his watch. You take his attention and direct it where you want it to go.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

1141 likes

#17

“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

14489 likes

#18

“There are rare people who will fuel the fire inside of you, who will awaken a dormant passion, who will push you and better you. She alone is my rarity.”
― Krista Ritchie, Fuel the Fire

194 likes

#19

“I’m trying to find myself.” Greer grins. “That, my dear, is the scariest thing you’re ever going to do.” “Why is that?” “Because you might not like what you find.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love

64 likes

#21

“I think you’re beautiful,” he says softly.
“Beauty fades,” I choke out.
“Not when it comes from inside.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hook Up

74 likes

#22

“You belong where you're loved.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

tags: emma-carstairs

716 likes

#23

“You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

tags: friendship, love, reason, regret, suicide

471 likes

#24

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: inspirational-quotes, strength-and-courage

16622 likes

#25

“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

tags: change, life, self

2066 likes

#26

“And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

tags: mortal-instruments, romance, teen-fantasy

8747 likes

#27

“No one is born evil, just like no one is born alone. They become that way, through choice and circumstance.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

881 likes

#28

“That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don't.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

tags: friendship, hold-still

96 likes

#29

“Fine’s a funny word, don’t you think? I don’t think there’s another like it in the English language that says so much while actually saying so little.”
― Emma Chase, Tangled

251 likes

#30

“But there are only so many times you can handle heartbreak with someone before you have to start protecting yourself.”
― Molly McAdams, From Ashes

79 likes

#31

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

7702 likes

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