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  • #1
    Brigham Young
    “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
    Brigham Young

  • #2
    Diana Gabaldon
    “As yet too hungry and too clumsy for tenderness, still he made love with a sort of unflagging joy that made me think that male virginity might be a highly underrated commodity.”
    Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

  • #3
    Diana Gabaldon
    “Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.”
    Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

  • #4
    Sarah J. Maas
    “And I realized—I realized how badly I'd been treated before, if my standards had become so low. If the freedom I'd been granted felt like a privilege and not an inherent right.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #5
    Sarah J. Maas
    “And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I felt for him.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #6
    Sarah J. Maas
    “He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #7
    Becky Albertalli
    “And the feeling that people are like houses with vast rooms and tiny windows.”
    Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

  • #8
    Becky Albertalli
    “As a side note, don't you think everyone should have to come out? Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it should be this big awkward thing whether you're straight, gay, bi, or whatever. Just saying.”
    Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

  • #9
    Becky Albertalli
    “Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it shouldn't be this big awkward thing whether you're straight, gay, bi, or whatever. I'm just saying.”
    Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

  • #10
    Cassandra Clare
    “We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

  • #11
    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #12
    Ransom Riggs
    “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #13
    Suzanne Collins
    “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #14
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #15
    Sarah J. Maas
    “To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #16
    Malcolm X
    “You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
    Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

  • #17
    Rupi Kaur
    “i am hopelessly
    a lover and
    a dreamer and
    that will be the
    death of me”
    Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

  • #18
    “Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul... but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October.”
    Peggy Toney Horton

  • #19
    Nina LaCour
    “We love films because they makes us feel something. They speak to our desires, which are never small. They allow us to escape and to dream and to gaze into the eyes that are impossibly beautiful and huge. They fill us with longing. But also. They tell us to remember; they remind us of life. Remember, they say, how much it hurts to have your heart broken.”
    Nina LaCour, Everything Leads to You

  • #20
    Nina LaCour
    “Because in the conversation beneath this one, what we're really saying is I am an imperfect person. Here are my failures. Do you want me anyway?”
    Nina LaCour, Everything Leads to You

  • #21
    Mizuki Tsujimura
    “A hypothetical reality seemed preferable to present reality, and the more she fantasized about how great it would if certain things could come true, the more reality that world seemed to take on.”
    Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror



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