2026 Reading Challenge

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    Ellen Hopkins
    “One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.”
    ― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse
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    Ellen Hopkins
    “You believe this is a game, and you may be right. But if you think you can play it better than me, think again.”
    ― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse
    tags: dr-starr
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    Ellen Hopkins
    “Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment.”
    ― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse
    tags: inspirational-love
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    Ellen Hopkins
    “I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.”
    ― Ellen Hopkins, Crank
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  • #5
    Ellen Hopkins
    “Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside you that you didn’t dare let them escape in case they blew you wide open? Have you ever been so angry that you couldn’t look in the mirror for fear of finding the face of evil glaring back at you?”
    ― Ellen Hopkins, Crank
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  • #6
    Ellen Hopkins
    “Smile. Nod. Say
    something witty
    before he finds
    out what an incredible
    geek you are.”
    ― Ellen Hopkins, Crank
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    Ellen Hopkins
    “It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because the end is close.”
    ― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse
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  • #8
    Ellen Hopkins
    “Taking no chances means wasting your dreams..”
    ― Ellen Hopkins, Crank
    tags: bravery, timidity
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  • #9
    Ellen Hopkins
    “Act
    on your impulse,
    swallow the bottle,
    cut a little deeper,
    put the gun to your chest.”
    ― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse
    tags: impulse
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  • #10
    Ellen Hopkins
    “Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?”
    ― Ellen Hopkins
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  • #11
    Ellen Hopkins
    “So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.”
    ― Ellen Hopkins
    tags: adolescence, anger, depression
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  • #12
    Ellen Hopkins
    “imperfections create character...”
    ― Ellen Hopkins
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  • #13
    Jarod Kintz
    “You know what I like most about people? Pets.
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    ― Jarod Kintz, Who Moved My Choose?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life
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  • #14
    John Steinbeck
    “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
    tags: loneliness, people, scared, world
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    Jarod Kintz
    “I only sing in the shower. I would join a choir, but I don’t think my bathtub can hold that many people.
”
    ― Jarod Kintz, Who Moved My Choose?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life
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  • #16
    Maureen Corrigan
    “It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.”
    ― Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
    tags: books, people, reading
    1896 likes

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  • #17
    Haruki Murakami
    “Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
    We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
    tags: essence, friendship, important, love, people, philosophy, possibility, thought
    2312 likes

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  • #18
    David Baldacci
    “Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
    ― David Baldacci, The Camel Club
    tags: books, peace, people, reading, world
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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  • #20
    “Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
    ― Terry Johnson, Insignificance
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-marilyn-monroe, philosophy
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    Laurence J. Peter
    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
    ― Laurence J. Peter
    tags: misattributed-einstein
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  • #22
    Ann Marie Frohoff
    “All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.”
    ― Ann Marie Frohoff
    tags: roman, teen-fiction, teenagers, writer, writer-quotes, writers, yalit, young-adult
    162 likes

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  • #23
    Julia Karr
    “Sometimes I wish I could just be like everyone else my age and not think at all.”
    ― Julia Karr, XVI
    tags: teenagers
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  • #24
    John Green
    “I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, 'I'm busy, I got a job, I got stuff to do.' WHATEVER! READ! I mean, you're watching CSI: Miami. Why would you be watching CSI: Miami, when you could be READING CSI: Miami, the novelization?”
    ― John Green
    tags: adults, reading, teenagers
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  • #25
    Courtney Summers
    “She was young and alive, untouchable. Why did she want to go?”
    ― Courtney Summers, Fall for Anything
    tags: teenagers
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  • #26
    Kelly Link
    “A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.”
    ― Kelly Link, Pretty Monsters: Stories
    tags: bullying, cliques, cruelty, heathers, kelly-link, monsters, pretty-monsters, teenage-girls, teenagers, teens
    119 likes

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  • #27
    Lauren Oliver
    “I'd rather die my way than live yours.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
    tags: independence, lena-holoway, self-determination, self-reliance
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  • #28
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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  • #29
    Stephen Chbosky
    “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: infinity
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  • #30
    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: change, life
    20964 likes



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