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“Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.”
― Christopher Paolini

“It’s just the kind of story that catches fire.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“I picked up one of the books, getting lost in a world where the people had all their dreams come true.”
― Kiera Cass, A Thousand Heartbeats

“If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I will be unapologetic. I will live with no regrets. I will reach into the earth and rip out the injustice and I will crush it in my bare hands. I want Anderson to fear me and I want him to beg for mercy and I want to say no, not for you. Never for you.
And I don't care if that's not nice enough.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“The more a nation gets into darkness, the more it's going to hate the light. The more it's going to run from the light. And we have a generation of people who have given themselves to darkness, and they've embraced atheism, because it gets them away from moral responsibility to God.”
― Ray Comfort

“Atheists don’t hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don’t exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists — like the painting experts hated the painter — hate God because He does exist.”
― Ray Comfort, You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think: Answers to Questions from Angry Skeptics

“Fight! Fight! Fight!”
― Donald J. Trump

“The biblical way to express God’s love to a sinner is to show him how great his sin is (using the Law—see Romans 7:13; Galatians 3:24), and then give him the incredible grace of God in Christ.”
― Comfort , Ray, The School of Biblical Evangelism

“The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves and listen to other people and, even worse, start following other people. That’s what gives rise to dictators.”
― Donald Trump, Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education In Business and Life

“When you are wronged repeatedly, the worst thing you can do is continue taking it--fight back! ”
― Donald Trump

“You’ve no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they’re not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn’t give you that right. Having more weapons doesn’t give you that right. Being from the Capitol doesn’t give you that right. Nothing does.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Love, true love, is dramatic; it is transformative and life-changing and irrevocable; it tears your heart out and builds it again all the stronger.”
― Mereda Hart Farynyk, The Light through Ancient Trees

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”
― Galatians 5:1 KJV

“It must require bravery to be honest all the time.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“You already know how I feel, of course,” I finally said. “I’m here…which, roughly translated, means I would rather die than stay away from you.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Maybe it explains the reason why one person likes another. It's because their souls both thrum at the same frequency.”
― Mary Amato, Guitar Notes

“No books!" I exclaimed. "How do you contrive to live here without them - if I may take the liberty to inquire?”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“When she talks to Tripp, something nice happens inside of her: a vibration, a thrum. It's as if a tiny wind chime is suspended inside her soul, she thinks, and his words are the wind that makes it ring.”
― Mary Amato, Guitar Notes

“Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?"
He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this" -- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- "distracting?"
I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder