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“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.”
― Madeleine de Scudéry

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“Tucker: "But she gave me the perfect gift."
Clara: "What?"
Tucker: "You.”
― Cynthia Hand, Unearthly

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
― Philip José Farmer

“Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.”
― Chris Rock

“Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”
― Jose Marti

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
― Richard Wright

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“The trick is not to mind.
Not to mind about it hurting.
Not to mind about anything.”
― Sally Green, Half Bad

“We do not choose whom we love...We can only choose how well.”
― Martha Brockenbrough, The Game of Love and Death

“Why choose fear over love? In what world does that make sense?”
― Martha Brockenbrough, The Game of Love and Death

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Great. We're all bloody inspired,” Newt answered, then pointed over his shoulder, towards the Maze.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“This sucks." "Smartest thing you've said yet, Greenie.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“I won't let your ignorance silence my pain”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“You…you rented an entire yacht…just so I could read by the water?” He holds up the tote bag he packed for me and hands it over so I can see my Kindle and both paperbacks I packed resting comfortably inside. “I did. You ready?”
― Natasha Bishop, Only for the Week

“Sometimes the people who are supposed to love you the most are the ones who hurt you the worst. They don’t get a pass just because they’re family. Choose yourself.”
― Natasha Bishop, Only for the Week

“Growing up, I realized quite quickly that people hate being called racist more than they hate racism itself.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“I hate how they have the power to kill my future, kill me. They treat my Black skin like a gun or a grenade or a knife that is dangerous and lethal, when really it’s them. The guys at the top powering everything.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades