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  • #2
    Isabel Ibañez
    “I didn't create the system- I was born into it”
    Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

  • #3
    Isabel Ibañez
    “Everything always seems sweeter in the minutes before darkness descends.”
    Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

  • #5
    Agatha Christie
    “Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.”
    Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

  • #6
    Agatha Christie
    “... one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.”
    Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

  • #7
    Agatha Christie
    “Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.”
    Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

  • #8
    Agatha Christie
    “If the fact will not fit the theory - let the theory go”
    Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

  • #9
    Agatha Christie
    “You should always pay attention to your instincts.”
    Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

  • #10
    Agatha Christie
    “A good conscience makes a sound sleeper”
    Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

  • #11
    Kendare Blake
    “Three dark queens
    Are born in a glen,
    Sweet little triplets
    Will never be friends

    Three dark sisters
    All fair to be seen,
    Two to devour
    And one to be Queen”
    Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

  • #12
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #13
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #14
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #15
    Charles Dickens
    “For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.”
    Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

  • #16
    E.T.A. Hoffmann
    “in a boat floating down a river of pink lemonade!”
    E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Nutcracker: The Original Holiday Classic

  • #17
    Gayle Forman
    “Not sure there is such a thing as a minor miracle.”
    Gayle Forman, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

  • #18
    Stephanie Perkins
    “He was the kind of beautiful that got under your skin.”
    Stephanie Perkins, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

  • #19
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #20
    Agatha Christie
    “I believe the "present" matters - not the past! The past must go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms - a false perspective.”
    Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot's Christmas

  • #21
    Agatha Christie
    “It seems sometimes, sir, as though the past isn't the past”
    Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot's Christmas

  • #22
    André Aciman
    “People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don’t always like who they are.”
    André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

  • #23
    J.K. Rowling
    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #24
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #25
    Casey McQuiston
    “History, huh?”
    Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

  • #26
    Casey McQuiston
    “RULE #1: Don't get caught.”
    Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

  • #27
    Casey McQuiston
    “On a chain around his neck, always hidden from view, he's worn the key to that house since the day he left for DC.”
    Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

  • #28
    Casey McQuiston
    “Everything is a story, never finished.”
    Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

  • #29
    Casey McQuiston
    “I think it's amazing," Nora says. "Sworn enemies forced to make peace to settle tensions between their countries? There's something totally Shakespearean about it.”
    Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

  • #30
    Casey McQuiston
    “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams,' Thoreau had said. 'Live the life you've imagined.”
    Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

  • #31
    Casey McQuiston
    “greatness means being true to yourself.”
    Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

  • #32
    Casey McQuiston
    “Someone else’s choice doesn’t change who you are.”
    Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue



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