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Hiiiii okay so this is quite possibly the most I’ve enjoyed writing a blog because I got to spend an entire class period reading! I have put together a collection of my favorite book quotes. I honestly feel like the quotes a person likes will tell you about them. Some of these I like just because of the way they are written (the first one for example) but most of them are because of what they say or what I felt when I read them for the first time. I associate a lot of these with a bad time in my life and reading them now is a reminder of how much I’ve grown and improved mentally. Okay, I’m gonna stop rambling and let you read them.

“I liked hurting girls.
Mentally, not physically, I never hit a girl in my life. Well, once. But that was a mistake. I’ll tell you about it later. The thing is, I got off on it. I really enjoyed it.
It’s like when you hear serial killers say they feel no regret, no remorse for all the people they killed. I was like that. Loved it. I didn’t care how long it took either, because I was in no hurry. I’d wait until they were totally in love with me. Till the big saucer eyes were looking at me. I loved the shock on their faces. Then the glaze as they tried to hide how much I was hurting them. And it was legal. I think I killed a few of them. Their souls, I mean. It was their souls I was after.”
― Anonymous, Diary of an Oxygen Thief

I really love this quote because it is the opening paragraph to the book. Itimmediately caught my attention and I didn’t put the book down until I finished it. I really loved seeing the perspective of a man who hurts women just because he can.

“She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. The same elements that are inside the rest of us, but I can’t help thinking she’s more than that and she’s got other elements going on that no one’s ever heard of, ones that make her stand apart from everybody else. I feel this brief panic as I think, What would happen if one of those elements malfunctioned or just stopped working altogether? I make myself push this aside and concentrate on the feel of her skin until I no longer see molecules but Violet.”― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

Where do I even start? This book absolutely changed my life. This paragraph alone gave me butterflies. Imagine being described like that by the person you love. Goosebumps, am I right? 

“Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you’ve been in before – you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall, the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.”
― Jandy Nelson, I’ll Give You the Sun

This book also changed my life. I have read it 5 times and I’ll probably read it again soon. This quote is just so calming to me. Because real love doesn’t hurt and it shouldn’t be hard. Yes, you’ll face hard times, but it will never be hard to love them.

“There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.”
— Nicola Yoon (The Sun Is Also a Star)

I also love this phrase because it gives me a sense of relief that I can’t really explain. I also love it because I don’t believe in love at first sight but I could definitely believe something like this. 

“I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all become somebody’s mom or dad. But right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening. I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You are alive. And you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you’re listening to that song, and that drive with the people who you love most in this world. And in this moment, I swear, we are infinite.” and ” I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

I don’t even need to explain why I like these because they’re just beautiful. I especially relate to the second one because I do want to sleep for a thousand years or not exist sometimes. I like knowing that I’m not the only one who feels like this. 

“Love extra, even if it means you hurt extra,too”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

I have always said that I’d rather hurt because I cared too deeply than hurt someone else because I didn’t care enough. This quote kind of explains the way my compassion and love works. 

“I like other people’s words. They fill me up.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

I, too, like other people’s words. I could read and read and read forever and not get bored. I love absorbing other people’s literature. 

“The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations – all of them rearranging themselves so 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 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.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

I just love reading about love. And writing about it. And feeling it. I’ve only ever felt romantic love once in my life and it didn’t work out. But the stuff I wrote about our love will always make me proud. 

“Even though you’re not my type, gender-wise, you’re my type, person-wise.”
― David Levithan, Another Day

I LOVE this quote. You’ll have to read the book to understand why the narrator is saying that but I just love how even though the person speaking isn’t usually into that gender, they still love them because of the person they are. And I think that’s the way everyone should be. There shouldn’t be gay, straight, bisexual, etc. I think you should just love who you love without having to put a label on yourself for what you find attractive. (Or what you don’t find attractive. Asexual people should just be called people, you know? Why label everyone for what floats their boat?)

Thanks for reading the stuff I like to read. 

Peace out Girl Scout 🙂