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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Diggers

  • #3
    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #4
    Jandy Nelson
    “Oh, God,’ he whispers, reaching his hand behind my neck and bringing my lips to his. ‘Let’s let the whole fucking world explode this time.’
    And we do.”
    Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

  • #5
    Charlotte Brontë
    “To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts — when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break — at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent — I am ever tender and true. (Mr Rochester to Jane)”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #6
    Stephen  King
    “It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: art

  • #7
    Stephen  King
    “Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #8
    Markus Zusak
    “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #9
    Markus Zusak
    “A DEFINITION NOT FOUND
    IN THE DICTIONARY
    Not leaving: an act of trust and love,
    often deciphered by children”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #10
    Markus Zusak
    “Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #11
    Markus Zusak
    “I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #12
    George R.R. Martin
    “Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

  • #13
    George R.R. Martin
    “All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

  • #14
    George R.R. Martin
    “You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first, we'll live.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

  • #15
    George R.R. Martin
    “You were made to be kissed, often and well.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

  • #16
    George R.R. Martin
    “And I tell you truly, Daenerys, there is no man in all the world who will ever be half so true to you as me.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

  • #17
    J.K. Rowling
    “You'll stay with me?'
    Until the very end,' said James.”
    J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #18
    Markus Zusak
    “She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on...”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #19
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #20
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #21
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #22
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #23
    Stephanie Perkins
    “For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
    Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

  • #24
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #25
    Markus Zusak
    “Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #26
    Markus Zusak
    “He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.

    She was the book thief without the words.

    Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #27
    Jennifer Donnelly
    “History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.”
    Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

  • #28
    Jennifer Donnelly
    “The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can't you see? I do not.”
    Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

  • #29
    Jennifer Donnelly
    “I will rain down silver and gold for you. I will shatter the black night, break it open, and pour out a million stars. Turn away from the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and know that I am here. That I remember and hope. Open your eyes and look at the light.”
    Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

  • #30
    Jennifer Donnelly
    “For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.”
    Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution



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