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  • #1
    Patrick Ness
    “War makes monsters out of men.”
    Patrick Ness

  • #2
    Patrick Ness
    “It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.
    It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.
    It's not a weakness.
    It's your best strength.”
    Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

  • #3
    Patrick Ness
    “Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. "I think maybe everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking."
    I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening.
    "I think the asking is whether we get back up again.”
    Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

  • #4
    “I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said.
    "It would look stunning, My Lady," she called.
    She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.”
    Kristin Cashore, Graceling

  • #5
    “When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
    Kristin Cashore, Graceling

  • #6
    Scott Westerfeld
    “The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.”
    Scott Westerfield

  • #7
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #8
    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

  • #9
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #10
    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    Sir Francis Bacon

  • #11
    Cornelia Funke
    “Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

  • #12
    Bob Marley
    “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
    Bob Marley

  • #13
    Bob Dylan
    “And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.”
    Bob Dylan

  • #14
    Jim Morrison
    “The future is uncertain but the end is always near.”
    jim morrison

  • #15
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #16
    Robert Frost
    “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
    Robert Frost

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Jacki Kane
    “Happiness is the best revenge”
    Jacki Kane, Sass Mouth: Destiny is a Joke

  • #19
    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

  • #20
    Markus Zusak
    “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #21
    Markus Zusak
    “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #22
    Markus Zusak
    “A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #23
    Markus Zusak
    “How about a kiss, Saumensch?"

    He stood waist-deep in the water for a few moments longer before climbing out and handing her the book. His pants clung to him, and he did not stop walking. In truth, I think he was afraid. Rudy Steiner was scared of the book thief's kiss. He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #24
    Eoin Colfer
    “Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
    Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

  • #25
    Eoin Colfer
    “Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder”
    Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox

  • #26
    Justina Chen
    “To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.”
    Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful

  • #27
    Justina Chen
    “Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.”
    Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful
    tags: lost

  • #28
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.”
    Machiavelli Niccolo

  • #29
    Leon Trotsky
    “A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.”
    Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice

  • #30
    David Sedaris
    “Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.”
    David Sedaris



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