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  • #1
    Christa Wolf
    “Between killing and dying there's a third way: live”
    Christa Wolf, Kassandra

  • #2
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #3
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #4
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #5
    Rick Riordan
    “With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
    Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

  • #6
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “On Earth, Liz was constantly occupied with studying and finding a college and a career and all those other things that the adults in her life deemed terribly important. Since she had died, everything she was doing on Earth had seemed entirely meaningless. From Liz's point of view, the question of what her life would be was now definitively answered. The story of her life is short and pointless: There once was a girl who got hit by a car and died. The end.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere

  • #7
    Jennifer A. Nielsen
    “...a strong heart will always overcome a strong body”
    Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

  • #8
    Jennifer A. Nielsen
    “A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.”
    Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

  • #9
    Jennifer A. Nielsen
    “You are the biggest fool of a boy I've ever known," Mott said. Then his tone softened. "But you will serve Carthya well."
    "I wish I felt ready to do this," I said. "The closer we come to the moment, the more I see every defect in my character that caused my parents to send me away in the first place."
    "From all I'm told, the prince they sent away was selfish, mischievous, and destructive. The king who returns is courageous, noble, and strong."
    "And a fool," I added
    Mott chuckled. "You are that too.”
    Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

  • #10
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

  • #11
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere
    tags: loss

  • #12
    Jennifer A. Nielsen
    “You stole it from the master."
    "Who stole it from me. What I did simply set the universe back in order.”
    Jennifer A. Nielsen

  • #13
    Jennifer A. Nielsen
    “No, my lady. If I cannot look at you as an equal, i will not look at you at all”
    Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

  • #14
    Lois Lowry
    “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
    Lois Lowry, The Giver

  • #15
    “The world is your bookmark.”
    joelbooks

  • #16
    Erin Hunter
    “Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory???
    Graystripe:...Drowning?
    Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory?
    Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there?”
    Erin Hunter

  • #17
    Mary Norton
    “Mrs. May looked back at her. "Kate," she said after a moment, "stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.”
    Mary Norton

  • #18
    Melanie  Joy
    “Educating yourself does not mean that you were stupid in the first place; it means that you are intelligent enough to know that there is plenty left to learn.”
    Melanie Joy

  • #19
    S.E. Hinton
    “Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.”
    S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

  • #20
    S.E. Hinton
    “I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
    S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

  • #21
    S.E. Hinton
    “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
    S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

  • #22
    Rainbow Rowell
    “In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)”
    Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

  • #23
    Cassandra Clare
    “If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #24
    Ayn Rand
    “Today we have discovered the word that could not be said. "I”
    Ayn Rand, Anthem

  • #25
    Ayn Rand
    “I am. I think. I will.”
    Ayn Rand, Anthem

  • #26
    Ayn Rand
    “My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”
    Ayn Rand, Anthem

  • #27
    Ayn Rand
    “I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.”
    Ayn Rand, Anthem

  • #28
    John  Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #29
    Veronica Roth
    “What makes you different, makes you dangerous.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #30
    Ayn Rand
    “And we know well that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone.”
    Ayn Rand, Anthem



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