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  • #1
    Diana Gabaldon
    “Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.”
    Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

  • #2
    Rick Riordan
    “With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
    Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

  • #3
    Marie Lu
    “Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
    Marie Lu, Legend

  • #4
    Veronica Roth
    “I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.”
    Veronica Roth, Allegiant

  • #5
    Lorrie Moore
    “All the world's a stage we're going through.”
    Lorrie Moore, Anagrams

  • #6
    Ruth Reichl
    “Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
    Ruth Reichl

  • #7
    A.A. Milne
    “I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #8
    Patricia Highsmith
    “I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”
    Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

  • #9
    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #10
    Philip José Farmer
    “Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
    Philip José Farmer

  • #11
    Gertrude Stein
    “It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
    Gertrude Stein

  • #12
    Lucille Clifton
    “You might as well answer the door, my child,
    the truth is furiously knocking.”
    Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

  • #13
    Miranda July
    “All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”
    Miranda July, It Chooses You

  • #14
    LeVar Burton
    “For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
    LeVar Burton

  • #15
    Jack Kerouac
    “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
    Jack Kerouac

  • #16
    Louis L'Amour
    “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

  • #17
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    “Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  • #18
    Flannery O'Connor
    “I write to discover what I know.”
    Flannery O'Connor

  • #19
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #20
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
    Zora Neale Hurston

  • #21
    Pablo Neruda
    “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
    Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

  • #22
    Ko Un
    “Body and soul, let's all go / transformed into arrows! / Piercing the air / body and soul, let's go / with no turning back.”
    Ko Un

  • #23
    The constant happiness is curiosity.
    “The constant happiness is curiosity.”
    Alice Munro

  • #24
    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    Charlaine Harris

  • #25
    Dang Thuy Tram
    “Come to me, squeeze my hand, know my loneliness, and give me the love, the strength to prevail on the perilous road before me.”
    Dang Thuy Tram

  • #26
    Thomas Paine
    “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
    Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

  • #27
    Madame de Sévigné
    “The human heart will never wrinkle.”
    Madame de Sévigné, Letters of Madame de Sévigné to her Daughter and her Friends, Volume 2

  • #28
    The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have
    “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
    Alice Walker

  • #29
    Mo Willems
    “If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
    Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

  • #30
    Markus Zusak
    “A small fact:
    You are going to die....does this worry you?”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief



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