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Ellen
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#1
“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
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John Green,
The Fault in Our Stars
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#2
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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Oscar Wilde
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#3
“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
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J.K. Rowling,
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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#4
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
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J.K. Rowling,
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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abilities
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#5
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
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John Green,
The Fault in Our Stars
tags:
love
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#6
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
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Dr. Seuss
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fantasy
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#7
“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
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J.K. Rowling,
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
tags:
mischief
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#8
“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
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William Shakespeare,
All's Well That Ends Well
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wrong
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#9
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
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John Green,
The Fault in Our Stars
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books
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power-of-words
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reading
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#10
“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
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John Green,
The Fault in Our Stars
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satisfaction
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self-determination
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#11
“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
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John Green,
The Fault in Our Stars
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#12
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
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John Green,
Looking for Alaska
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life
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#13
“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
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John Green,
An Abundance of Katherines
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books
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#14
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
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Sarah Dessen,
Someone Like You
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friendship
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#15
“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
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George R.R. Martin,
A Game of Thrones
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books
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mind
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#16
“You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
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John Green
tags:
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#17
“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
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John Green,
An Abundance of Katherines
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#18
“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
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Suzanne Collins,
The Hunger Games
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the-hunger-games
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#19
“What is in our hearts is real whether we name it or let it exist only in darkness or silence.”
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Beth Revis,
Shades of Earth
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#20
“He's the only stable thing in the swirling chaos.”
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Beth Revis,
A Million Suns
tags:
chaos
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91 likes
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#21
“But Amy," Elder says. "Space suits!”
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Beth Revis,
A Million Suns
tags:
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76 likes
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#22
“And there is nothing between us but rain.
Then there is nothing between us at all.”
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Beth Revis,
Across the Universe
80 likes
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#23
“Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.”
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Joelle Charbonneau,
The Testing
tags:
life
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life-lessons
195 likes
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#24
“It takes a lot of courage to choose to do nothing when you aren’t certain of the outcome.”
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Joelle Charbonneau,
Independent Study
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#25
“Because sometimes the best leaders are the ones who have no interest in leading. Those are often the ones who are most interested in doing what is right, not what is popular.”
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Joelle Charbonneau,
Independent Study
tags:
inspirational
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leadership
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truth
103 likes
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#26
“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
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Suzanne Collins,
The Hunger Games
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truth
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