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  • #1
    Veronica Roth
    “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #2
    Veronica Roth
    “Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #3
    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

  • #4
    Conan O'Brien
    “All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.”
    Conan O'Brien

  • #5
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #6
    “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

  • #7
    James Dashner
    “You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!”
    James Dashner, The Maze Runner

  • #8
    Ally Condie
    “Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?”
    Ally Condie, Matched

  • #9
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #11
    Stephen  King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #12
    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

  • #13
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #14
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #15
    Conan O'Brien
    “If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
    Conan O'Brien

  • #16
    Veronica Rossi
    “People can be cruelest to those they love.”
    Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky

  • #17
    Alexandra Bracken
    “The Darkest Minds tend to hide behind the most unlikely faces.”
    Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

  • #18
    Rainbow Rowell
    “In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)”
    Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

  • #19
    Rainbow Rowell
    “I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

  • #20
    John Green
    “I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #21
    Jess Rothenberg
    “You can obsess and obsess over how things ended—what you did wrong or could have done differently—but there's not much of a point. It's not like it'll change anything. So really, why worry?”
    Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me

  • #22
    Jess Rothenberg
    “There’s no such thing as too much Disney.”
    Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me

  • #23
    Georgette Heyer
    “As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”
    Georgette Heyer, Venetia

  • #24
    Jonathan Franzen
    “How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
    Jonathan Franzen

  • #25
    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.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

  • #26
    William Arthur Ward
    “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
    William Arthur Ward

  • #27
    Jojo Moyes
    “You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
    Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

  • #28
    “I promise you this. I’ll love you until the day I die even if I have to live without you. And if it’s fifty years from now, you come home, Nick Anderson. Do you hear me? I’ll be waiting on you.”
    Katherine Allred, The Sweet Gum Tree

  • #29
    Rainbow Rowell
    “There are moments when you can't believe something wonderful is happening. And there are moments when your entire consciousness is filled with knowing absolutely that something wonderful is happening.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

  • #30
    Nicholas Sparks
    “You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters.”
    Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me



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