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“Life isn't life if you just float through it.”

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Lauren Oliver, born in 1982, is an accomplished American author known for her profound emotional depth and imaginative storytelling. Her works have garnered widespread acclaim and have resonated with readers around the world. more

“exemplar, n. It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done. You love my parents, I know. But you never get too close. You never truly believe there aren't bad secrets underneath.”

Ifs Knows Believe Stills Done Home Faces Parent Secret Failing Welcome Storyline Lack Of Faith Love My Parents

Author:David Levithan

“hubris, n. Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power.”

Ifs Feels Kind Universe Mines One Word Reminding Hubris

Book:The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel

Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel

“scapegoat, n. I think our top two are: 1. Not enough coffee. 2. Too much coffee.”

Thinking Two Enough Too Much Coffee Scapegoat

Book:The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel

Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel

“The idea was to have a basin inverted on his head and his hair cut to the shape of it. Skill and money were not needed. Then the idea grew that it was more convenient to leave the basin on his head. Stray thoughts were trimmed along with stray hair; brain-vines, tentacles of thought, were not encouraged to wander. Then, in the interests of human economy, the head of adaptable man became a basin of uniform shape—a basin, a crash helmet. Safe at last; no more thought-cuts.”

Men Humans Ideas Lasts Interest Brain Economy Cutting Hair Grew Needed Shapes Skills Safe Wander Crash Uniforms Convenient Vines Helmet Adaptable Inverted Tentacles Hair Cut

Author:Janet Frame

“Sometimes 'Hmm' is the wisest thing to say.”

Sometimes Wisest Hmm

Book:Enchanted

Source: Enchanted

“The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.”

Stories Remember Our Lives Childhood

Author:Stephen King

“[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.”

Cities Vision Technology Virtue Events Example Materials Kings Victory Saint Traditional Celebrate Holiday Cigarette Illumination Reserved Gin Toothpaste Rare Events

Book:Heaven and hell

Source: Heaven and hell

“Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ... That, and I know how to use a dictionary”

Knows Art Said Use Know How Sentences Sage Dictionary Juxtaposition

Author:Richelle Mead

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