No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.
—Jay Asher’s Thirteen Reasons Why
If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, its nothing. Let it go.
—Philippa Gregory’s The Other Boleyn Girl
I lie to myself all the time, but I never believe me.
—S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders
Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.
—Dennis Lehane’s Shutter Island
You always have a choice. It’s just that some people make the wrong one.
—Nicholas Sparks’ The Guardian
All you really have… is now.
—Laura Weiss’s How It Ends
Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters
—Stephen King’s The Shining
I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.
—Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon
How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered.
—Tatiana de Rosnay’s Sarah’s Key
Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.
—Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper
