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  • #1
    Patrick Ness
    “To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
    Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    “How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”
    Evans G. Valens, The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont

  • #4
    Philip Pullman
    “I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.”
    Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

  • #5
    “It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.”
    Arthur G. Lewis, Stub Ends of Thought and Verse

  • #6
    Patrick Ness
    “You’re never more alive than in battle.”
    “Never more dead after,” I say.
    “Ah, philosophy,” he smiles. “I didn’t know you had it in you.”
    Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

  • #7
    Patrick Ness
    “Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.”

    “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all.”
    Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

  • #8
    Patrick Ness
    “Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'--
    'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky.
    'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.”
    Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

  • #9
    Patrick Ness
    “What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it
    down.”
    Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

  • #10
    Patrick Ness
    “Cuz that's it -
    That's the nasty, nasty secret of war -
    When yer winning -
    When yer winning, it's effing thrilling -”
    Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

  • #11
    Patrick Ness
    “A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.”
    Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

  • #12
    Patrick Ness
    “Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?”
    Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

  • #13
    Lauren DeStefano
    “‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.”
    Lauren DeStefano, Wither

  • #14
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #15
    Cassandra Clare
    “Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--"
    "Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not."
    The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness.
    "Now, that's simply laziness," said Will.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #16
    Cassandra Clare
    “Goodness," Tessa said to the back of his head. "If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #17
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #18
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “There is always something left to love.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

  • #19
    Philip Pullman
    “Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must.
    Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.”
    Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

  • #20
    Philip Pullman
    “You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.”
    Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

  • #21
    Philip Pullman
    “I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.”
    Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

  • #22
    Doris Kearns Goodwin
    “In the reflected gaze of his (her husband's) steady admiration, she saw the face of the girl he had fallen in love with.”
    Doris Kearns Goodwin, Wait Till Next Year

  • #23
    Neil Gaiman
    “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #24
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #25
    Albert Camus
    “O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.”
    Albert Camus, L’été

  • #26
    Stephen  King
    “Anyone who lives in Boston knows that it’s March that’s the cruelest, holding out a few days of false hope and then gleefully hitting you with the shit.”
    Stephen King, Dreamcatcher

  • #27
    “It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer”
    Shanna LaFleur



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