Book Quotes

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Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.

Daniel Handler, Why we broke up

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You know, you can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.

Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

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You and I against a rule, set for us by time. A marker drawn to show our end, etched into its line. The briefest moment shared with you— the longest on my mind.

Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

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Shrinking in a corner, pressed into the wall; do they know I'm present, am I here at all? Is there a written rule book, that tells you how to be all the right things to talk about that everyone has but me?

Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

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You have said all the things I need to hear before I knew I needed to hear them. To be unafraid of all the things I used to fear, before I knew I shouldn't fear them.

Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

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And nothing else can take what only was always meant as solely yours.

Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure 

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I can see it. The world is right again, is the smile.

Daniel Handler, Why we broke up<\b>

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There are strange friendships. The two friends are always ready to fly at one another, and go on like that all their lives, and yet they cannot separate. Parting, in fact, is utterly impossible.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

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It’s like confetti, these dried remnants you find in the street for a party no one invited you to. But they used to be, I can admit, part of something beautiful.

Daniel Handler, Why we broke up

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December 5 is what I saw as we walked together on October 5, let’s go, let’s go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

Daniel Handler, Why we broke up<\b>

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Love is one kind of abstraction.

David Levithan, The lover’s dictionary

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It's not as if I can conjure you there completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead.

David Levithan, The lover’s dictionary 

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People often say that when couples are married for a long time, they start to look alike. I don't believe that. But I do believe their sentences start to look alike.

David Levithan, The lover’s dictionary 

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There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you're in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.

David Levithan, The lover’s dictionary 

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Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. If I wanted to detach completely, I would move my body away. I would stop the conversation midsentence. I would leave the bed. Instead, I hover over it for a second. I glance off in another direction. But I always glance back at you.

David Levithan, The lover’s dictionary

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The proper verb for depression is sink.

David Levithan, The lover’s dictionary