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“Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“…I've had a bad week."
What's happened?"
Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? 'I love you' is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I, yet when you say it and when I say it we speak like savages who have found three words and worship them.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not to make the road wide for you, the table spread for you. To choose you out of habit not desire, to pass the flower seller without a thought. To leave the dishes unwashed, the bed unmade, to ignore you in the mornings, make use of you at night. To crave another while pecking your cheek. To say your name without hearing it, to assume it is mine to call.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“Kes midagi ei oota, ei saa ka pettuda. See on hea lähtepunkt. Kõik, mis siis järgneb, lisab juba natukene juurde.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph

“Armastus teeb naise teravmeelseks, mehe aga võtab juhmiks.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph

“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
― Joan Didion, Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.”
― Stephen Chbosky

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

“When you're happy,you enjoy the music.But,when you're sad,you understand the lyrics.”
― Eljumar Alesna

“One can only presume that people who say that their favorite record of all time reminds them of their honeymoon in Corsica, or of their family Chihuahua, don't actually like music very much.”
― Nick Hornby, Songbook

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

“Exercise II.

Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started:

Dear Diary,
I spent the morning admiring my skin elasticity.
God alive, I feel supple.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

“One more word that may be useful in the heat of passion: dong. Dong sounds like someone very important has just arrived.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

“Tunnustus on omaksvõtt selle poolt, keda sa ise tunnustad.”
― Tõnu Õnnepalu, Ainus armastus. Valik esseid

“I have the strangest thoughts in my head, maybe I should not write them down.”
― Erlend Loe, Muleum

“I don't want all that much. But I want to be fine. I want to live a simple life with many good moments and a lot of fun.”
― Erlend Loe, Naïve. Super

“Something is going to have to happen. Not necessarily something big. Just something.”
― Erlend Loe, Naïve. Super

“One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina