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  • #1
    Patrick Ness
    “Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.”
    Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

  • #2
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #3
    Desmond Tutu
    “My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.”
    Desmond Tutu

  • #4
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #5
    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #6
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #7
    I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
    “I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #8
    C.S. Lewis
    “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #9
    Lemony Snicket
    “All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #10
    Naomi Novik
    “truth didn’t mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn’t come and listen.”
    Naomi Novik, Uprooted

  • #11
    Guy de Maupassant
    “Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
    Guy de Maupassant

  • #12
    Jane Austen
    “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #13
    Jane Austen
    “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #14
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.”
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

  • #15
    Griet Op de Beeck
    “Hoe dat precies moet, leven, daar ben ik nog niet helemaal achter, maar ik kan redelijk goed doen alsof. Dat is een begin, vind ik. Ik kan ook verdienstelijk uitleggen aan anderen hoe het misschien zou moeten, en daar wordt soms naar geluisterd, merk ik, wat mij dan een beetje verbaast.”
    Griet Op de Beeck, Vele hemels boven de zevende

  • #16
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

  • #17
    Seth Godin
    “Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.”
    Seth Godin, Poke the Box

  • #18
    Helene Wecker
    “A man might desire something for a moment, while a larger part of him rejects it. You'll need to learn to judge people by their actions, not their thoughts.”
    Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni

  • #19
    Elie Wiesel
    “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #20
    Neil Gaiman
    “Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #21
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

  • #22
    Becky Albertalli
    “It is definitely annoying that straight (and white, for that matter) is the default, and that the only people who have to think about their identity are the ones who don't fit that mold. Straight people really should have to come out, and the more awkward it is, the better. Awkwardness should be a requirement.”
    Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

  • #23
    Joe Hill
    “Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.”
    Joe Hill, Horns

  • #24
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #25
    Sarah J. Maas
    “To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
    Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #26
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I renamed myself Ari.

    If I switched the letter, my name was Air.

    I thought it might be a great thing to be the air.

    I could be something and nothing at the same time. I could be necessary and also invisible. Everyone would need me and no one would be able to see me.”
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

  • #27
    Joe Abercrombie
    “The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense. Worry less about what the gods might do and more about what you can, that’s my advice.”
    Joe Abercrombie, Half the World

  • #28
    Joe Abercrombie
    “Take everything as a compliment, you can never be insulted.”
    Joe Abercrombie, Half the World

  • #29
    Joe Abercrombie
    “A man who gives all his thought to doing good, but no thought to the consequences …” Father Yarvi lifted his withered hand and pressed its one crooked finger into Brand’s chest. “That is a dangerous man.”
    Joe Abercrombie, Half the World

  • #30
    Warsan Shire
    “give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.”
    Warsan Shire



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