“I adore the way fan fiction writers engage with and critique source texts, by manipulating them and breaking their rules. Some of it is straight-up homage, but a lot of [fan fiction] is really aggressive towards the source text. One tends to think of it as written by total fanboys and fangirls as a kind of worshipful act, but a lot of times you’ll read these stories and it’ll be like ‘What if Star Trek had an openly gay character on the bridge?’ And of course the point is that they don’t, and they wouldn’t, because they don’t have the balls, or they are beholden to their advertisers, or whatever. There’s a powerful critique, almost punk-like anger, being expressed there—which I find fascinating and interesting and cool.”

― Lev Grossman.

“I don't know. We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing."

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Of all the good things.” He grasps my hips as I roll them into his. “Of all the good things I’ve felt in my fucking life, you are the best.”

- Bride, Ali Hazelwood.

"People don't help much."

He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.

- Lord of the Flies, Sir William Golding

Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

American Gods, Neil Gaiman

Get good, Ladies. Or get dead.

I'd Tell You I love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You by Ally Carter

{Quotes:Nitya prakash/Richard siken ,crush}

📚 Anna Karenina, Lev Nikolaevitch Tolstoi.

“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. So medicine, law, business, engineering... these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love... these are what we stay alive for.” ― John Keating, Dead Poet's Society.

"Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in."

— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

This hand is mine. She offered it to me freely, and I’m not releasing it unless it’s absolutely necessary. One day, maybe she’ll allow me to touch more than just her hand, but for now, this has to be enough. 

- Darkest Sins (Perfectly Imperfect #9), Neva Altaj.

fatima aamer bilal, from i mother it the absence of her, iii. i am not a person that can be loved for a very long time excerpt from moony moonless sky.

There is a big difference between not being able to live without someone and loving them.

After We Fell, Anna Todd