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    Brom
    “Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”
    ― Brom, The Child Thief
    tags: demons, fear, see
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    Katherine Paterson
    “I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?”
    ― Katherine Paterson
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    Richard Matheson
    “The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.”
    ― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend and Other Stories
    tags: mythology
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Arnold Lobel
    “Books to the ceiling,
    Books to the sky,
    My pile of books is a mile high.
    How I love them! How I need them!
    I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
    ― Arnold Lobel
    tags: books, reading
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    Judy Blume
    “Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
    ― Judy Blume
    tags: books, censor, communication, freedom, philosophy
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    Judy Blume
    “The truth will make you odd.”
    ― Judy Blume
    tags: truth
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    Judy Blume
    “The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.”
    ― Judy Blume
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    Judy Blume
    “Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.”
    ― Judy Blume
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    Judy Blume
    “Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.”
    ― Judy Blume
    tags: censor, censoring, censors, censorship, censure, first-amendment, freedom-of-speech, freedom-to-express
    65 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Arnold Lobel
    “You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.”
    ― Arnold Lobel, Frog and Toad Together
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    Arnold Lobel
    “All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.”
    ― Arnold Lobel, Fables
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    Leo Lionni
    “Don't eat me. I am an inchworm. I am useful. I measure things.”
    ― Leo Lionni, Inch by Inch
    tags: worms
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  • #15
    “Never apologize for your reading tastes.”
    ― Betty Rosenberg
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  • #16
    Martin Luther
    “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
    ― Martin Luther
    tags: inspiration, perseverance
    1334 likes

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    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience
    tags: books
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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    Tanith Lee
    “Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.”
    ― Tanith Lee, Delirium's Mistress
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Lisa Schroeder
    “Come with me,' Mom says.
    To the library.
    Books and summertime
    go together.”
    ― Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me
    tags: books, library, summer
    303 likes

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    Bette Greene
    “Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.”
    ― Bette Greene, Summer of My German Soldier
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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro
    tags: inspirational, missed-chances
    3411 likes

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    Langston Hughes
    “Island

    Wave of sorrow,
    Do not drown me now:

    I see the island
    Still ahead somehow.

    I see the island
    And its sands are fair:

    Wave of sorrow,
    Take me there.”
    ― Langston Hughes, Selected Poems
    tags: island
    16 likes

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  • #26
    Ray Bradbury
    “Beware the autumn people”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
    tags: fantasy
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  • #27
    Brom
    “If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know.”
    ― Brom, The Child Thief
    tags: laugh, life
    220 likes

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    Brom
    “Don't let them win. Don't let them beat you. Don't let them steal your magic.”
    ― Brom, The Child Thief
    tags: don-t-let-them, inspirational, peter
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  • #29
    O.R. Melling
    “Elm do grieve
    Oak do hate
    Willow do walk
    If you travel late.

    Dana shivered. It was an ominous whisper, cold and unfriendly. At the corner of her eye, she saw a tree move. A weeping willow. Its roots seemed to wade through the soil as if it were water.”
    ― O.R. Melling, The Light-Bearer's Daughter
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