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  • #1
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

  • #2
    Walter Kirn
    “Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.”
    Walter Kirn, Mission to America

  • #3
    David Henry Hwang
    “I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
    David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

  • #4
    John Locke
    “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
    John Locke

  • #5
    Cassandra Clare
    “Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do,”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

  • #6
    Cassandra Clare
    “It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green."
    "If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #7
    Cassandra Clare
    “It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #8
    Cassandra Clare
    “How awfully convenient for you, regardless. And for him. He won't have to worry about you spilling his secrets."
    "Yeah," Jace said. "He's terrified I'll tell everyone that he's always wanted to be a ballerina.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #9
    Cassandra Clare
    “Is there some particular reason that you're here?" ...
    "Not this again."
    "Not what again?" said Clary.
    "Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house." Simon pointed at Jace.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #10
    Cassandra Clare
    “If you ever meet the man who could take advantage of Isabelle, you’ll have to let me know. I’d like to shake his hand. Or run away from him very fast, I’m not sure which.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

  • #11
    Cassandra Clare
    “I guess it’s true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches."
    "That’s atheists, jackass," said Simon furiously. "There are no atheists in the trenches.”
    Cassandra Clare

  • #12
    Cassandra Clare
    “Some guys look at you like they only want sex. Jace looks at you like you've had sex - it was great and now you're just friends. Drives girls crazy. Know what I mean?" Yes. Clary thought. "No." Clary said.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #13
    Cassandra Clare
    “She turned and looked at him. "Ducks?" she said again.
    A smile tugged the edge of his mouth. "I hate ducks. Don't know why. I just always have.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls

  • #14
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “The proof of the pudding is the eating.”
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

  • #15
    Thomas Keneally
    “Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
    Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List

  • #16
    Veronica Roth
    “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #17
    Veronica Roth
    “I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #18
    Veronica Roth
    “Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.'

    'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #19
    Suzanne Collins
    “Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt. Neighbor. Hunter. Tribute. Ally. I'll add it to the list of words I use to try to figure you out. The problem is, I can't tell what's real anymore, and what's made up.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #20
    Suzanne Collins
    “At a few minutes before four, Peeta turns to me again. "Your favorite colour . . . it's green?"
    "That's right." Then I think of something to add. "And yours is orange."
    "Orange?" He seems unconvinced.
    "Not bright orange. But soft. Like the sunset," I say. "At least, that's what you told me once."
    "Oh." He closes his eyes briefly, maybe trying to conjure up that sunset, then nods his head. "Thank you."
    But more words tumble out. "You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces."
    Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #21
    Suzanne Collins
    “But more words tumble out. 'You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.'

    Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #22
    Nicholson Baker
    “I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
    Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

  • #23
    Lorrie Moore
    “One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.”
    Lorrie Moore, Like Life

  • #24
    Cassandra Clare
    “And if the Thames that ran beside them, sure and silver in the afternoon light, recalled a night long ago when the moon shone as bright as a shilling on this same boy and girl, and if the stones of Blackfriars recalled the thred of their feet and thought to themselves: at last, the wheel comes full circle, they kept their silence.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess



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