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  • #1
    Michelle Paver
    “Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.”
    Michelle Paver

  • #2
    Michelle Paver
    “Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people, but if you're afraid, you're on your own.”
    Michelle Paver, Oath Breaker

  • #3
    Justin Somper
    “Well, if pirates are bad,
    And vampires are worse,
    Then I pray that as long as I be
    That though I sing of Vampirates
    I never one shall see.
    Yea, if pirates are danger
    And vampires are death,
    I'll extend my prayer for thee-
    That thine eyes never see a Vampirate

    ...and they never lay a hand on thee”
    Justin Somper, Demons of the Ocean

  • #4
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #5
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #6
    Sarah J. Maas
    “How long was I asleep?" she whispered. He didn't respond.
    "How long was I asleep?" she asked again, and noticed a hint of red in his cheeks.
    "You were asleep, too?"
    "Until you began drooling on my shoulder.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #7
    Sarah J. Maas
    “We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #8
    Sarah J. Maas
    “No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #9
    Sarah J. Maas
    “My name is Celaena Sardothien. But it makes no difference if my name's Celaena or Lillian or Bitch, because I'd still beat you, no matter what you call me.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #10
    Sarah J. Maas
    “With each day he felt the barriers melting. He let them melt. Because of her genuine laugh, because he caught her one afternoon sleeping with her face in the middle of a book, because he knew that she would win.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #11
    Sarah J. Maas
    “As my friend, you should either bring me along, or keep me company."
    "Friend?" he asked.
    She blushed. "Well, 'scowling escort' is a better description. Or 'reluctant acquaintance', if you prefer.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #12
    David Levithan
    “Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?”
    David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

  • #13
    David Levithan
    “There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living.”
    David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

  • #14
    David Levithan
    “They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep.”
    David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

  • #15
    David Levithan
    “They beat the shit out of me. But you know what? I didn't need that shit inside of me. I'm glad it's gone.”
    David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

  • #16
    David Levithan
    “This is the power of a kiss: It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life.”
    David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

  • #17
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #18
    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #19
    J.K. Rowling
    “The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #20
    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #21
    J.K. Rowling
    “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #22
    Terry Pratchett
    “No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...”
    Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

  • #23
    Michelle Paver
    “There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff.”
    Michelle Paver

  • #24
    Michelle Paver
    “A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance?”
    Michelle Paver, Gods and Warriors



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