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#1

"Self-confidence is the most attractive quality someone can posses"
— Delphine Nais Chang

3 people liked it

#2

"Life is like a bowl of spaghetti.
Every once in a while, you get a meatball."
— Sharon Creech

18 people liked it

#3

"The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper."
— Shannon Hale

tags: books, reading
29 people liked it

#4

"Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring.""
— Shannon Hale

tags: books, genre, young_adult
104 people liked it

#5

"I was under the stars, like a fish is under water."
— Shannon Hale

tags: b1000
66 people liked it

#6

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

tags: happiness
2,400 people liked it

#7

"It takes much bravery to stand up to our enemies but we need as much bravery to stand up to our friends."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: courage, friends
1,811 people liked it

#8

"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."
— J.K. Rowling

tags: dumbledore
1,200 people liked it

#9

"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should be treated with caution."
— J.K. Rowling

tags: truth
1,060 people liked it

#10

"Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

tags: hermione
1,058 people liked it

#11

"A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things."
— Barack Obama

tags: activism, commitment, politics
169 people liked it

#12

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. "
— Barack Obama

tags: change, inspirational
554 people liked it

#13

"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
5,276 people liked it

#14

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
6,701 people liked it

#15

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
9,041 people liked it

#16

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
5,877 people liked it

#17

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
13,852 people liked it

#18

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
13,944 people liked it

#19

"Harry looked around; there was Ginny running toward him; she had a hard blazing look in her face as she threw her arms around him. And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her. After several long moments, or it might have been half an hour-or possibly several sunlit days- they broke apart."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

tags: humor, kiss
90 people liked it

#20

"'So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some veela when you're off doing whatever you're doing.'
'I think dating opportunities are going to be pretty thin on the ground, to be honest.'
'There's a silver lining I've been looking for,' she whispered, and then she was kissing him as she never kissed him before, and Harry was kissing her back, and it was a blissful oblivion, better than firewhiskey; she was the only real thing in the world, Ginny, the feel of her, one hand on her back, the other in her long sweet-smelling hair..."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

tags: kiss, love
108 people liked it

#21

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
14,599 people liked it

#22

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
11,600 people liked it

#23

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
18,785 people liked it

#24

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
20,062 people liked it

#25

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, those-who-matter
23,290 people liked it

#26

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: dreams, life
2,776 people liked it

#27

"As strong as we are united. As weak as we are divided."
— J.K. Rowling

tags: strength, unity
804 people liked it

#28

"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

tags: live-death-love
856 people liked it

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