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  • #1
    Max Nowaz
    “The world is full of magic. You’ve just got to learn how to access it.”
    Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

  • #2
    Kyle Keyes
    “That was a hell of a shot!”
    Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus

  • #3
    Markus Zusak
    “He stood a few meters from the step and spoke with great conviction, great joy.
    "Alles ist Scheisse," he announced.
    All is shit.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #4
    Ralph Ellison
    “Ride 'em, cowboy. Give 'em hell and bananas.”
    Ralph Ellison

  • #5
    Scott Westerfeld
    “Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.”
    Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

  • #6
    Roald Dahl
    “I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.”
    Roald Dahl, Matilda

  • #7
    Jack Kerouac
    “He had never felt anything like that before - yet somehow he knew that from now on he would always feel like that, always, and something caught at his throat as he realized what a strange sad adventure life might get to be, strange and sad and still much more beautiful and amazing than he could ever have imagined because it was so really, strangely sad.”
    Jack Kerouac, The Town and the City

  • #8
    Alan Weisman
    “The real reason that the world’s landfills weren’t overflowing with plastic, he found, was because most of it ends up in an ocean-fill. After a few years of sampling the North Pacific gyre, Moore”
    Alan Weisman, The World Without Us

  • #9
    Max Nowaz
    “He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
     ”
    Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

  • #10
    “The owner of the Post Office was called Maurice. A sixtyish-year-old with a large red nose that was pebble-dashed with broken capillaries, and a smooth bald head with a fuzz of grey hair around the side like the tide mark on a dirty bath. He had a gruff manner, distrusting eyes and a cough like kicked gravel.”
    R.D. Ronald

  • #11
    Edward        Williams
    “The local dealers were cutting their coke with crystal meth”
    Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

  • #12
    Raz Mihal
    “Words can’t imprison Love.”
    Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

  • #13
    Ann Patchett
    “The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly is always the love that is not returned.”
    Ann Patchett

  • #14
    Salman Rushdie
    “To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world.”
    Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

  • #15
    Mary Norton
    “Human beans are for Borrowers—like bread’s for butter!”
    Mary Norton, The Borrowers

  • #16
    Nelou Keramati
    “And to think of all colors in the world, blood chose to be red." ~ The Fray Theory”
    Nelou Keramati

  • #17
    Sharon Creech
    “It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can’t fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside is something that we can manage, something that isn’t as awful as it had a first seemed. It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.”
    Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

  • #18
    Victoria Aveyard
    “In the palace, during my imprisonment, I learned that Maven had been made by his mother, formed into the monster he became. There is nothing on earth that can change him or what she did. But Cal was made too. All of us were made by someone else, and all of us have some thread of steel that nothing and no one can cut.”
    Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage
    tags: mare



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