Reading always has and always will be one of my favorite pastimes. Reading transports you into another world and makes for a well needed escape from reality. In high school, whenever I was stressed, overwhelmed or just needed a break from it all, I would trek to Barnes and Nobles and settle down with a good book. Books have helped me through the good times and the bad. They have never failed to impact my life in one way or another. There is no feeling in the world that compares to the bittersweet feeling of closing the pages of a good book.

So, for all the book junkies out there-- here are some of my all time favorite quotes that I will forever live by, which you should too:

1. B.J. Novak, One More Thing

“Love always won in the end. No matter how it happened, no matter what it took, no matter what it meant. Fair or not, true or not, love won.”

2. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

3. Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

"There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone."

4. Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does to.”

5. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”

6. Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”

7. J.K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

"Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”

8. Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

"Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no one creature endures. A fear of time running out.”

9. John Green, Looking For Alaska

"Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” That’s why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”

10. Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stumped by this for many years. And then i realized, you just say “Hi.” They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word."

I hope some of these quotes leave you with the everlasting impact that they have left with me.