"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."  - Oscar Wilde (missdelaney—)

"Finishing a book is bittersweet. You spend days getting to know the characters. Learning their nuances, their faults, their loves, their lives. They become your friends, acquaintances, enemies. And after the story ends, you miss them. You look for them in your own life, wonder where they’ve gone, you forget that they aren’t real. You fall in love with the hero and dream of him at night. The strange girl becomes your best friend. Their heartaches become your heartaches. You laugh when they laugh. And cry when they die. Eventually you realise they aren’t a part of your world, you were just briefly visiting theirs."  - by whimsicalenlightenment (via enjoyingjoy)

"Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters."  - John Green (via antl3rs)

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“Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.”

—Stephen King

[I’ve posted this quote before, but it’s worth another look.]

"Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist. To build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that i was not lost, but home."  - John Green (Looking For Alaska)

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."  - Lord Henry, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (via paintmysilence)