“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”
-Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”
-Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
“Maybe who we are isn’t so much about what we do, but rather what we’re capable of when we least expect it.”
-Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
“When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It’s fate.”
-Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
“Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.”
-Kathryn Stockett, The Help
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
-Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”
-J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
-John Green, An Abundance of Katherine’s
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
-Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“Nobody’s lives just fit together. Fitting together is something you work at. It’s something you make happen – because you love each other.”
-Rainbow Rowell, Landline
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
-Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird