Book Quotes: Every Day by David Levithan

Book Quotes are posts dedicated to the wonder of writing. There are books you read and you just know that it has pieces of wisdom within it, buried right there in the words. Here are the ones I'm documenting. 

(***Which means that if you have NOT read this book yet, there is a potential for spoilers!)

Every Day
by David Levithan
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What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity? I suddenly realize why people believe in deja vu, why people believe they've lived past lives, because there is no way the years I've spent on this earth could possibly encapsulate what I'm feeling. The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations--all of them rearranging themselves so that this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself have crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

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I no longer think she is just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

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This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.

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All my usual disconnect comforts are being taken away, now that I see the greater comfort of presence.

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There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions.
The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

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I want to argue with her, tell her that "sins of the flesh" is just a control mechanism--if you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life. I can't say how many times this tool has been wielded against me, in a variety of forms. But I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation.

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"And I love you."
That isn't the question, she's saying.
But it's not the answer, either.

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Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.

**All quotes taken from the ARC I acquired from ALA Annual 2012. The final copy may be different.

Book Quotes: The Story of Us by Deb Caletti

Book Quotes are posts dedicated to the wonder of writing. There are books you read and you just know that it has pieces of wisdom within it, buried right there in the words. Here are the ones I'm documenting. 

(***Which means that if you have NOT read this book yet, there is a potential for spoilers!)

The Story of Us

by Deb Caletti

(review here!)

Maybe some people just had trouble with forever.

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Stories are what you have when the place is gone and the dried-up roses have crumbled and the ring is lost and that old car is finally junked. Stories are where the meaning ends up.

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It was Mom's optimism coming down the genetic line, taking a left turn and becoming some twisted belief that you could cover up most shit with enthusiastic effort. Or maybe I'd learned this from Jupiter. She did the same thing every morning in the front yard.

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It was kind of beautiful, actually, the brief knowing exchange. If it had been Mom and me, we might have talked for twenty minutes about what we needed and how we felt about it. Someone might have cried. There might have been hugging involved. I didn't necessarily work the way these guys did, but I could see the benefits.

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"Good things don't always lead to bad ones, Crick."

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My mother always said that our own stories were where we made sense of things, but I think all stories have that power. You could put your confusion and upset and worries into whatever book you were reading. You could sort of set them down in there, and you could come out with your head on a little straighter. i don't know why the stories work that way, but they did. They're an actual place where confusing things order themselves.

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We go out toward the mountains, head to the pass just outside our town. We'd get lost. And we'd park there, in lost. Away. Escape. I loved that. But a lost-away-escape that was more safe than any found.

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"...forever is hard enough without it beginning now."

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The story, our real story is this: doomed, precious, imperfect love. Love, deep and endless and brave in the face of certain loss--through death and leavings and growing up and letting go. Love, given over. It's the tender pulse of every word and every line and every chapter. It's our story, and it's the place where our heart, no matter what, always finds home.

Top Ten Favourite Quotes From Books

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Today's topic is:

Top Ten Favourite Book Quotes

**Beware: there may be spoilers!

As a disclaimer, the last quote I read and love will always be whatever book I've last read, because I fall in love with words over and over again. So this is the 'current' Top Ten Favs that I remember...

1. I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once. 

-- The Fault In Our Stars, John Green

2. I needed to hate someone and you're the one I love the most, so it fell on you. 

-- Where She Went, Gayle Forman

3. "Oh, God," he whispers, reaching his hand behind my neck and bringing my lips to his. "Let's let the whole fucking world explode this time."

And we do. 

-- The Sky is Everywhere, Jandy Nelson

4. You love me. Real or not real? 

-- Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins

5. "There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then." 

-- City of Glass, Cassandra Clare

6. "So do you believe in second chances?" I bit my lip.

"Second, third, fourth. Whatever it takes. However long it takes. If the person is right," he adds.

"If the person is...Lola?"

This time, he holds my gaze. "Only if the other person is Cricket." 

-- Lola and the Boy Next Door, Stephanie Perkins

7. What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person." 

-- Paper Towns, John Green

8. You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

 -- Will Grayson, Will Grayson, John Green

9. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces. Maybe, what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking. 

-- Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

10. It's not the changes that will break your heart; it's that tug of familiarity.

 -- The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, Jennifer E. Smith

Bonus 11. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. 

-- Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen

Bonus 12. Envy is when you want what someone else has. Jealousy's when you also don't want them to have it. 

-- Wanderlove, Kirsten Hubbard

Ok, so I couldn't quite stick to 10.

What are your favourite quotes?

Leave your link in the comments and I'll hop by!

Book Quotes: There Is No Dog by Meg Rosoff

Book Quotes are posts dedicated to the wonder of writing. There are books you read and you just know that it has pieces of wisdom within it, buried right there in the words.  Here are the ones I'm documenting. 

(***Which means that if you have NOT read this book yet, there is a potential for spoilers!)

There Is No Dog by Meg Rosoff

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She thought of talking to God, her God--a benign, all-seeing sort of deity who didn't get too involved with the day-to-day running of life, but who (she imagined) liked to be kept informed--a sort of thoughtful philosophy professor of a God, passing his days in contemplation of the moral complexities of good and evil.

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"Nothing," Bob said to him on any number of occasions. "You are nothing."

In his heart of hearts, Eck believed that he was nothing, for wouldn't God know about such matters?

Being nothing made him sad.

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She murmurs sweet words to him and he wriggles a little, snuggling closer; the sound he makes isn't one Mr. B has ever heard before--a sigh of such perfect complexity that it rewrites everything he has imagined Bob's pet capable of feeling.

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Perhaps the way to proceed is to think of life on earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break.