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  • #1
    Farley Mowat
    “We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.”
    Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

  • #2
    Katrina Leno
    “Buy yourself some books, Lottie. They help with everything. Books can make you live a thousand lifetimes, a thousand different lives. Books make you immortal.”
    Katrina Leno, Everything All at Once

  • #3
    Melissa Grey
    “You're a thief, Echo.' The Ala Squeezed her hand, her grip strong despite her frailty. 'Steal him back.”
    Melissa Grey, The Shadow Hour

  • #4
    Jason Reynolds
    “AND YOU KNOW
    it's weird to know
    a person you don't know

    and at the same time

    not know
    a person you know,

    you know?”
    Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down

  • #6
    Simone Weil
    “Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
    Simone Weil

  • #6
    Jeff Zentner
    “I guess guilt doesn't sleep, it only eats.”
    Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days

  • #7
    “Passion is wholehearted devotion; it is fervor and agony; it is temper and zeal.”
    Rebecca Ross, The Queen’s Rising

  • #8
    Rebecca   Ross
    “I will take and love all of you, Brienna MacQuinn, your shadows and your light, for you have challenged me; you have captivated me. And I desire no other but you.”
    Rebecca Ross, The Queen's Rising

  • #9
    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “Pero, tú no eres fácil.”
    You sure ain’t an easy one.”
    Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

  • #10
    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “....and my heart is one of Darwin's Finches, learning to fly.”
    Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

  • #11
    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “Burn it! Burn it. This is where the poems are,” I say, thumping a fist against my chest. “Will you burn me? Will you burn me, too?”
    Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

  • #12
    Olivia A. Cole
    “Don’t call me stupid,” Yaya says, taking a half step toward me. The shine of tears in her eyes is gone: she’s fully angry now and it shows. But I’m angry too. Is this how humans got ourselves into this mess? By believing that we have as much right to this planet as the Faloii? Do we think we own the galaxy? I’m surprised they haven’t already thrown us back out into the stars.”
    Olivia A. Cole, A Conspiracy of Stars

  • #13
    Olivia A. Cole
    “Fear makes people stupid,”
    Olivia A. Cole, A Conspiracy of Stars

  • #14
    Olivia A. Cole
    “Facts are not always facts. The version of the truth we know is what is shown to us.”
    Olivia A. Cole, A Conspiracy of Stars

  • #15
    Jason Reynolds
    “A BROKEN HEART

    killed my dad. That's why my mother always said. And as a kid I always figured his heart was forreal broken like an arm or a toy or the middle drawer.”
    Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down

  • #16
    Jason Reynolds
    “People always love people more when they dead”
    Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down

  • #17
    Mary H.K. Choi
    “Loving someone was traumatizing. You never knew what would happen to them out there in the world. Everything precious was also vulnerable.”
    Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

  • #18
    Mary H.K. Choi
    “There was no way she'd allow him to see her do 97 percent of her normal activities. She was a monster. A monster who was flat as a board with no ass. In fact, the only thing she had going on in the curves department was an enormous cystic pimple on her chin that hurt when she touched it. Yeah, no.”
    Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

  • #19
    Mary H.K. Choi
    “Dude. Every mom is the most annoying human in the universe, but most of them, besides the super-abusive genuinely bad ones, are in your corner.”
    Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

  • #20
    Tricia Levenseller
    “I am me because I choose to be me. I am what I want. Some people say you have to find yourself. Not I. I believe we create ourselves to be what we want. Any aspect of ourselves that we do not like can be altered if we make an effort.”
    Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Pirate King

  • #21
    Tricia Levenseller
    “Oh, the ridiculous things one has to do when one is a pirate.”
    Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Pirate King

  • #22
    Tricia Levenseller
    “Lass, you've the face of an angel but the tongue of a snake.”
    Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Pirate King

  • #23
    Tricia Levenseller
    “I am me because I choose to be me. I am what I want. Some people say you have to find yourself. Not I. I believe we create ourselves to be what we want.”
    Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Pirate King

  • #24
    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #25
    Jane Austen
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

  • #26
    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #27
    Sarah J. Maas
    “He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #28
    Sarah J. Maas
    “I fell in love with you, smartass, because you were one of us—because you weren’t afraid of me, and you decided to end your spectacular victory by throwing that piece of bone at Amarantha like a javelin. I felt Cassian’s spirit beside me in that moment, and could have sworn I heard him say, ‘If you don’t marry her, you stupid prick, I will.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #29
    Sarah J. Maas
    “When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #30
    Sarah J. Maas
    “I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
    I was a survivor, and I was strong.
    I would not be weak, or helpless again
    I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury



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