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“My life for your life.' That means while we live, we share the joy of living with each other. 'My death for your life.' I would be willing to lay down my life to save yours. 'My life for your death.' I will spend my life avenging your death, if I can't prevent it. 'My death for your death.' A part of me will die when you do.”
― Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

“Root shook his head. “Pickles are cucumbers soaked in evil,” he said with his mouth full. “I refuse to associate them with my cooking.”
― Shay Lynam, The Tree House

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. ”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
― Anthony Burgess

“Even a one-inch insect has half an inch of soul. It doesn't matter if people are going to forget the Sekiho Army. But I can't throw away my half-inch of life.”
― Sagara Sanosuke

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
― Ira Glass

“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“It's important to know what you think, my dear, or else you will be so hemmed in by other people's ideas and opinions, you won't have room for your own.”
― Karen Cushman, The Loud Silence of Francine Green

“There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned”
― Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star

“Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.”
― Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”
― John Updike

“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

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
― Russell Banks, Continental Drift

“I never kid about my warrior demigod status."
"Oh. My. God." I lower my voice, having forgotten to whisper. "You are nothing but a bird with an attitude. Okay, so you have a few muscles, I’ll grant you that. But you know, a bird is nothing but a barely evolved lizard. That’s what you are.”
― Susan Ee, Angelfall

“It is not the gentle kiss of a couple on a first date, nor is it the kiss of a man driven by simple lust. He kisses me with the desperation of a dying man who believes the magic of eternal life is in this kiss.”
― Susan Ee, Angelfall

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being”
― LeVar Burton

“Human beings are the laziest creatures in the history of creation. We would rather not do anything if we could avoid it.”
― LeVar Burton

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

“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
― Doris Lessing

“When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.”
― Susan Faludi

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
― Henry James

“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“My friends call me Wrath,” says Raffe. “My enemies call me Please Have Mercy. What’s your name, soldier boy?”
― Susan Ee, Angelfall

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley