Smile Reading

A lover of books 📚. Booktuber 📸. Believer of life is too short to not smile.

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“I wish I could live a thousand lives so I could fall in love with you a thousand times….But if all we get is this one, and I share it with you, then I will never want for anything,”

- Elias, Sabaa Tahir, A Sky Beyond the Storm

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'Doing one thing differently is often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can't be reversed within a lifetime, however much we try...' -the Librarian, Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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'Every life contains many millions of decisions. Some big, some small. But every time one decision is taken over another, the outcomes differ. An irreversible variation occurs, which in turn leads to further variation.' -the Librarian, Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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"A promise is not a kiss in the wind, to be thrown about without care...It is a piece of yourself that is given away and will not return until your pledge is fulfilled." - Shiori, Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

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Usually the secrets we keep down, ain't meant to hurt other people....Not saying they won't, but not through intentions. Those deep secrets, we hide away because we're afraid what other people might think. How they might judge us, if they knew. And nobody's judgment we scared of more than the one we give our hearts to.

- Benny, P. Djeli Clark, A Master of Djinn

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There's more to life than the things in front of you...Sometimes we hold on to things we shouldn't. People. Places. Emotions. We try to control all of it, when what we should be doing is trusting in something bigger.

- Santiago, Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage

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'We never know what choices will lead to defining moments in our lives,' the crimson scythe said. 'A glance to the left instead of right could define who we meet and who passes us by. Our life path can be determined by a single phone call we make, or neglect to make...'

Scythe Constantine, Neal Shusterman, The Toll

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"Strange, isn't it? To love a book. When the words on the pages become so precious that they feel like part of your own history because they are...."

Dorian, Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

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"I do not think the answer is in words, love," she said. "I think it is in living. In finding joy, however small, in every day...

Laia, Sabaa Tahir, A Sky Beyond the Storm

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Love can be more powerful in a battle than planning or strategy. Love keeps us fighting. Love drives us to survive.

Musa, Sabaa Tahir, A Sky Beyond the Storm

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When your mind does not hear you, train your body. Your mind will follow.

Sabaa Tahir, A Sky Beyond the Storm

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…there is no possible way to understand fairness and guilt when your world has already determined a set of rules that doesn't make sense.

Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

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It is a midnight lie, she said. A kind of lie told for someone else's sake, a lie that sits between goodness and wrong, just as midnight is the moment between night and morning.

Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

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If you only shine light on your flaws, all your perfects will dim.

Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfect

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With great power...comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.

Nico, Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 5)

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...But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete or poet. I only made wine. The people in my village laughed at me. they said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.

Dionysus, Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4)

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Fight not for greatness,but for goodness.

Renee Ahdieh, Smoke in the Sun