“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
(the lighting thief by Rick Riordan)
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
This quote is by Toni Morrison, and basically says that you must seek it out to write your own stories.
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“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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I don’t really have a favourite book quote but maybe the @Bookworms can help out and share some? 
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From Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
A satirical war novel about the American Air Force during World War 2.
Writtenby a man who stationed in Corsica during the war and flew 60 combat missions.
“An unreasonable belief that everybody around him was crazy, a homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers, retrospective falsification, an unfounded suspicion that people hated him and were conspiring to kill him.”
“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to, but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to.”
Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. “That’s some catch, that catch-22,’” he observed.
“It’s the best there is,” Doc Daneeka agreed.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
With a little ingenuity and vision, he had made it all but impossible for anyone in the squadron to talk to him, which was just fine with everyone, he noticed, since no one wanted to talk to him anyway.
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“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”
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Wowo noiceee
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I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.
As if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. I did not need to look; his fingers were etched into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong.
“Patroclus,” he said. He was always better with words than I.
-Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
was I crying at this point? yes I was
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Hi, I’m back with more quotes because I’m not okay
“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
-Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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Ikr 
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This is when I completely broke down…
“I am made of memories.”
-Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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Ahhh TSOA broke me!
Whenever he asked “What has Hector ever done to me?”, I was like 🥲
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Love Millard.
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“In the future… if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again… fall in love with me.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us 
Simon snow is still going to die kissing me. Just not today
—Rainbow rowell, Carry on
“I would have come for you. And if I couldn’t walk, I’d crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we’d fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that’s what we do. We never stop fighting.“
-Kaz, Crooked Kingdom
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