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  • #1
    Ellen Hopkins
    “How could I share the
    way my heart was breaking
    when my confessor
    didn’t believe”
    Ellen Hopkins, Crank

  • #2
    S.E. Hinton
    “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
    S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

  • #3
    Stephen Chbosky
    “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #4
    Ellen Hopkins
    “you fly until you crash two days
    two nights
    no sleep,
    no food,
    come down off the monster
    YOU CRASH REAL HARD”
    Ellen Hopkins, Crank

  • #5
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #6
    Sophie Kinsella
    “Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos. Or if you could instruct people to disregard what you just said, like in a courtroom.”
    Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic

  • #7
    Stephen Chbosky
    “I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #8
    Sophie Kinsella
    “I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.”
    Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic

  • #9
    Ellen Hopkins
    “When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.”
    Ellen Hopkins, Glass

  • #10
    Ellen Hopkins
    “Taking no chances means wasting your dreams..”
    Ellen Hopkins, Crank

  • #11
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #12
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL

    1. We are here to help you.
    2. You will have time to get to your class before the bell rings.
    3. The dress code will be enforced.
    4. No smoking is allowed on school grounds.
    5. Our football team will win the championship this year.
    6. We expect more of you here.
    7. Guidance counselors are always available to listen.
    8. Your schedule was created with you in mind.
    9. Your locker combination is private.
    10. These will be the years you look back on fondly.

    TEN MORE LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL

    1. You will use algebra in your adult lives.
    2. Driving to school is a privilege that can be taken away.
    3. Students must stay on campus during lunch.
    4. The new text books will arrive any day now.
    5. Colleges care more about you than your SAT scores.
    6. We are enforcing the dress code.
    7. We will figure out how to turn off the heat soon.
    8. Our bus drivers are highly trained professionals.
    9. There is nothing wrong with summer school.
    10. We want to hear what you have to say.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

  • #13
    Meg Cabot
    “Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it sounds really great, and I'd like to visit there one day.”
    Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City

  • #14
    Meg Cabot
    “Needless to say, the fact that he actually spoke to me at all practically caused me to pass out. And then the fact that he was actually saying something that sounded like it might be a prelude to asking me out - well, I nearly threw up. I mean it. I felt really sick, but in a good way.”
    Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries

  • #15
    E. Lockhart
    “I'm not telling you what I look like in any detail. I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes... First of all, it's boring. You should be able to imagine me without all the gory details of my hairstyle or the size of my thighs. And second, it really bothers me how in books it seems like the only two choices are perfection or self-hatred. As if readers will only like a character who's ideal - or completely shattered. Give me a break. People have got to be smarter than that.”
    E. Lockhart, The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

  • #16
    E. Lockhart
    “How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?”
    E. Lockhart, The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch, Gideon—and me, Ruby Oliver

  • #17
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #18
    Jane Austen
    “Angry people are not always wise.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #19
    Sylvia Plath
    “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #20
    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #21
    Ellen Hopkins
    “Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?”
    Ellen Hopkins

  • #22
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #23
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #24
    Mae West
    “Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
    Mae West

  • #25
    Salvador Dalí
    “Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?”
    Salvador Dalí

  • #26
    “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
    Walter H. Cottingham

  • #27
    Gail Carson Levine
    “A library is infinity under a roof.”
    Gail Carson Levine

  • #28
    Vincent van Gogh
    “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
    Vincent Van Gogh

  • #29
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    “The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
    Oscar Wilde



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