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  • #1
    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #2
    Katherine Paterson
    “You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.”
    Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

  • #3
    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #4
    Jerry Spinelli
    “She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.”
    Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

  • #5
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    L.M. Montgomery

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #7
    Jerry Spinelli
    “The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.”
    Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

  • #8
    Jerry Spinelli
    “When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.”
    Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

  • #9
    Jerry Spinelli
    “She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.”
    Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

  • #10
    Jerry Spinelli
    “Home is everything you can walk to.”
    Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

  • #11
    Jerry Spinelli
    “Why fit in when you're born to stand out?”
    Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

  • #12
    Jerry Spinelli
    “Her smile put the sunflower to shame.”
    Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

  • #13
    Jerry Spinelli
    “She laughed, and the desert sang.”
    Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

  • #14
    Jane Austen
    “It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
    Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

  • #15
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
    Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

  • #16
    N.D. Wilson
    “In the history of the world there have been lots of onces and lots of times, and every time has had a once upon it.”
    N.D. Wilson, Leepike Ridge

  • #17
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #18
    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

  • #19
    Flannery O'Connor
    “I write to discover what I know.”
    Flannery O'Connor

  • #20
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #21
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #22
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #23
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
    Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

  • #24
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #25
    William Shakespeare
    “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
    William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

  • #26
    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

  • #27
    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #28
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #29
    Robert Frost
    “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
    Robert Frost

  • #30
    Markus Zusak
    “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief



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