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  • #1
    Rick Riordan
    “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

  • #2
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #3
    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #4
    Cassandra Clare
    “Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #5
    Richelle Mead
    “Sometimes it’s worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination."

    Metaphors. This was the cost of making out with an artist.”
    Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

  • #6
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
    Gustav Flaubert

  • #7
    Jack Gilbert
    “Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
    Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems

  • #8
    Richard Matheson
    “That which you believe becomes your world.”
    Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

  • #9
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. ”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • #10
    Steve Jobs
    “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #11
    Victor Hugo
    “To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #12
    Ralph Ellison
    “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
    Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

  • #13
    José Martí
    “Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”
    Jose Marti

  • #14
    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #15
    J.K. Rowling
    “Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin' abou'—about ANYTHING?"
    Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks weren't bad.
    "I know some things," he said. "I can, you know, do math and stuff.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #16
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #17
    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

  • #18
    N. Scott Momaday
    “A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.”
    N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain

  • #19
    Leslie Marmon Silko
    “But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”
    Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

  • #20
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
    Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

  • #21
    Penelope Lively
    “Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.”
    Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

  • #22
    John Updike
    “Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”
    John Updike

  • #23
    Julia Glass
    “When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”
    Julia Glass, Three Junes

  • #24
    Tennessee Williams
    “If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
    Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

  • #25
    Anne Frank
    “I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #26
    Ralph Ellison
    “The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.”
    Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

  • #27
    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #28
    Ibn-e-Safi
    “Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on”
    Ibn-e-Safi

  • #29
    S.E. Hinton
    “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
    S.E. Hinton

  • #30
    Patrick O'Brian
    “Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.”
    Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days



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