“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”

“Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.”

“When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.”

“Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.”

“Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do. ”

“Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.”

“The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as wed like to be. And that sucks. But when youre confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole ...”

“After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, a...”

“I don't imagine book elitists as my audience when writing. I dream about teachers, morticians and garbage men instead.”

“There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy. My name is Augustus Waters, he said. Im seventeen. I had a little touc...”

“I love fictional characters...they can't break your heart.”

“Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about.”

“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”

“Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you'll add five more. That's just the way it works.”

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”