June 2011
69 posts
“You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
— John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)
“You’re alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you’re dead, it’s gone. Over. You’ve made what you’ve made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished.”
—
Silas from Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book
Submitted by: bellegaijin
(via effyeahyoungadultlit)
“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.”
—Joseph F. Newton
“I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and types of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason, too”
—The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (via effyeahyoungadultlit)
