by Tim O'Brien
“Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”
fiction / ★★★★★
by Mila Gray
“Does he make you see stars?’ he asks in a low voice. ‘Does he call you his north star? Because that’s what you are to me. You’re the reason I made it home.”
romance / ★★★★★
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
fiction / ★★★★★
by Nicola Yoon
“In my head I know I've been in love before, but it doesn't feel like it. Being in love with you is better than the first time. It feels like the first time and the last time and the only time all at once.”
romance / ★★★★☆
by N.H Kleinbaum
“We don't read and write poetry because its cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is full of passion.”
fiction / ★★★★★
by Ray Bradbury
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
fiction / ★★★★★
by J.R Tolkien
“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.”
fantasy /★★★★☆
by Lois Lowry
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
sci-fi / ★★★☆☆