Dawn Smith > Dawn's Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "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

“If I had nothing to lose, I’d have nothing to fight for.”
― J.B. Ryder, The Forgotten Colony

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

[The Minotaur]”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
― Albert Camus