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  • #1
    Cassandra Clare
    “It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

  • #2
    Cassandra Clare
    “Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #3
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #4
    Leigh Bardugo
    “No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #5
    Leigh Bardugo
    “The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #6
    Pablo Picasso
    “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
    Pablo Picasso
    tags: art

  • #7
    Renée Ahdieh
    “My soul sees its equal in you.”
    Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

  • #8
    Renée Ahdieh
    “So you would have me throw Shazi to the wolves?”
    “Shazi?” Jalal’s grin widened. “Honestly, I pity the wolves.”
    Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

  • #9
    Renée Ahdieh
    “She was a dangerous, dangerous girl. A plague. A Mountain of Adamant who tore the iron from ships, sinking them to their watery graves without a second thought. With a mere smile and a wrinkle of her nose.”
    Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

  • #10
    Cassandra Clare
    “Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die -"
    She put her hand against his chest, just over his heart, and felt its beat against her palm, a unique time signature that was all its own. "I only wish you would not speak of dying," she said. "But even for that, yes, I know how you are with your words, and, Will- I love all of them. Every word you say. The silly ones, the mad ones, the beautiful ones, and the ones that are only for me. I love them, and I love you.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #11
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Rhysand stared at me for long enough that I faced him.
    "Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don't feel anything at all.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

  • #12
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #13
    “I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
    In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #14
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Don't feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #16
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #17
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #18
    Nikita Gill
    “We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.”
    Nikita Gill

  • #19
    Nikita Gill
    “You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.”
    Nikita Gill

  • #20
    Nikita Gill
    “The monsters were never
    under my bed.
    Because the monsters
    were inside my head.


    I fear no monsters,
    for no monsters I see.
    Because all this time
    the monster has been me.”
    Nikita Gill

  • #21
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #22
    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    George R. R. Martin

  • #23
    Sarah J. Maas
    “When you erupt, girl, make sure it is felt across worlds.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

  • #24
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

  • #25
    Katherine Paterson
    “She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there--like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.”
    Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

  • #26
    Stephen Chbosky
    “I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #27
    “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #28
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Come on, Sardothien,” he said, slinging an arm around her shoulders. “If you’re done liberating slaves and destroying pirate cities, then let’s go home.”
    Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Pirate Lord

  • #29
    Nikita Gill
    “Fathers, do not let your sons forget

    Do not let your sons forget
    where their essence was just formed,
    when their bodies were most vulnerable,
    they were protected by the womb of a woman.

    If they ever call all women weak,
    remind them of the strength of their mother
    who pulled her whole body apart
    to give theirs a home.”
    Nikita Gill, Your Soul is a River

  • #30
    Nikita Gill
    “what a perfect collision of star it was that came together at just the right moment at just the right time to build the incredible thing that is you”
    Nikita Gill, Your Soul is a River



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