Quote 25

“Just breathe,” my mom would say. “Ten tiny breaths … Seize them. Feel them. Love them.”

K. A. Tucker, Ten Tiny Breaths

Quote 24

“I can’t promise that I’ll be able to give you everything you deserve, Adelaide.” He gazes deep into my eyes and his fingers skim my cheeks, tucking strand of black behind my ears. “But I can promise you that I’ll try.”

Lauren Hammond, White Walls

Quote 23

“It gets better, Elijah. But I can promise you, if you spend all of your time alone. All of the pain and the misery will eat you alive.”

Lauren Hammond, White Walls

Quote 22

“Just come say goodbye to me, Addy.” I know he realizes he’s fading now, too. “Just come say goodbye to me before I go.”

Lauren Hammond, White Walls

Quote 21

“You whispered into my ear, caressed my heart with your words, and breathed life into my soul.”

Lauren Hammond, White Walls

Quote 20

“I just want you to know that you are my sun, my moon, and my stars. My heaven, my hell, and my earth. I’d do anything for you. I’d go anywhere for you. If you ever left me, I’d follow you.”

Lauren Hammond, Insanity

Quote 19

“Addy, I’d steal the stars for you and serve them to you on a gold plate,” he murmurs against my lips. “I’d rip the sun from the heavens just so it would brighten your day.” Another soft brush of the lips. “I’d die for you.”

Lauren Hammond, Insanity

Quote 18

“Addy, living one day without you would never be for the best. I want you every minute of every day. Forever. I love you.”

Lauren Hammond, Insanity

Quote 17

“Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less” 

J. A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

Quote 16

“Heart always wins out over the mind. The heart, although reckless and suicidal and a masochist all on its own, always gets its way.” 

J. A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

Quote 15

“I hate to say it, but shit really does happen. You just have to get over it. Beat the hell out of it by doing things that make you happy.”

J. A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

Quote 14

“Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.”

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Quote 13

“All salvation is temporary,' Augustus shot back. 'I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing.' ” 

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Quote 12

"My name is Hazel. Augustus Waters was the great sat-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won't be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us, as it should."

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Quote 11

"People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm.”

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Quote 10

“We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.” 

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Quote 9

“The real heroes anyway aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention”

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Quote 8

“Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to hold a cigarette than any nonsmoker in history, or because he got eighteen years when he should've gotten more.'
'Seventeen,' Gus corrected.
'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interupting bastard.
'I'm telling you,' Isaac continued, 'Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interupt you at his own funeral. And he was pretentious: Sweet Jesus Christ, that kid never took a piss without pondering the abundant metaphorical resonances of human waste production. And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.
'But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.'

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Quote 7

“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?” 

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Quote 6

“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.” 

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Quote 5

“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.” 

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Quote 4

“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Quote 3

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can’t tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Quote 2

“Well, your future's still unfolding, you'll just have to let it happen as it intends to. But what's keeping you from being free of your past?"
I thought for a moment. "Forgiveness.”

Rebecca Donovan, Barely Breathing

Quote 1

“We can contemplate the meaning of your life all you want, but know that you're my meaning... the reason behind just about everything I do―and I would never want to change that”

Rebecca Donovan, Barely Breathing