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“Hannah wasn't my first kiss, but the first kiss that mattered: the first kiss with someone who mattered. (pg 222).”

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Jay Asher is an American writer known for his young adult literature. Born on September 30, 1975, he is renowned for his novel '13 Reasons Why,' which delves into complex themes of teenage suicide and bullying in schools. more

“The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule, can sleep in peace in their communal graves, for at least the struggle in which they died has enabled their descendants, isolated in their air-conditioned apartments, to believe, on the strength of their daily dose of television, that they are happy and free. The Communards went down, fighting to the last, so that you too could qualify for a Caribbean cruise.”

“I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There's no room for lack of trust, or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence.”

Soul Rooms Existence Brain Blood Skins Filled Bones Lack Of Trust

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.”

Years Five Our Lives Kings Politician Thousand Management Realization Priests Thousand Years Anarchism Anarchist County Fables Commissioners Years Of Experience

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.”

Feels Helping Kindness Stranger Selfish Helping Others Feel Good Selfishness Acts Of Kindness Make You Feel Good Goodness And Kindness Small Acts Of Kindness Selfish Acts

Author:Carol Burnett

“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.”

Death Loss Dying Failure Garden Series Triumph Gardening Gardener Impermanence Garden Love Spring Garden Spring Gardening

Book:At Seventy: A Journal

Source: At Seventy: A Journal

“This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.”

Thinking World Giving Long Wanted Accepting Needed Long Time Immense

Book:Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“Believe everything you read”

Believe Book Faith Reading Trust Singer Songwriters Blind Faith Blind Trust

Author:Kurt Cobain

“When we talk about ourselves, about others, or simply about things, we want- it could be said – to reveal ourselves in our words: We want to show what we think and feel. We let other have a glimpse into our soul.”

Thinking Want Feels Said Soul Shows Glimpse Our Words

Book:Night Train to Lisbon

Source: Night Train to Lisbon

“But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?”

Soul Ends Facts Stories Shadow Deceptive

Book:Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel

Source: Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel

“Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.”

Ifs Matter Moments Intense Justify Brida

Author:Paulo Coelho

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