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  • #1
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

  • #2
    Robin McKinley
    “Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won't — some people do lead enchanted lives — but odds are that it will. Some time.”
    Robin McKinley

  • #3
    Robin McKinley
    “So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread my favorite novel. Buy eight dozen roses from the best florist in town--the super expensive ones, the ones that smell like roses rather than merely looking like them--and put them all over my apartment. Take a good long look at everyone I love.”
    Robin McKinley, Sunshine
    tags: death

  • #4
    Paulo Coelho
    “Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”
    Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

  • #5
    Paulo Coelho
    “It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #8
    Terry Pratchett
    “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

  • #9
    Toni Morrison
    “Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
    Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993

  • #9
    Paulo Coelho
    “There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
    But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

  • #9
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Books are more real when you read them outside.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

  • #10
    Neil Gaiman
    “Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #11
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Stranger than Fiction

  • #12
    Neil Gaiman
    “When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #13
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #14
    Suzanne Collins
    “You love me. Real or not real?"
    I tell him, "Real.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #15
    Neil Gaiman
    “Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.”
    Neil Gaiman, Stardust

  • #16
    Paulo Coelho
    “You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. That way, you'll never have to fear an unanticipated blow.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #17
    Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
    “Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.”
    Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, Demon in My View

  • #18
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #19
    Elizabeth Kostova
    “People seem to believe that despair is the same as anguish, but it is not. It's true that despair is surrounded by anguish, but at its core, despair is a silent, blank page.”
    Elizabeth Kostova, The Shadow Land

  • #20
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #21
    Neil Gaiman
    “To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

  • #22
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

  • #23
    Philip Pullman
    “There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.”
    Philip Pullman

  • #24
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #25
    Philip Pullman
    “We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”
    Philip Pullman

  • #26
    It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
    Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

  • #27
    George Eliot
    “It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.”
    George Eliot

  • #28
    Paulo Coelho
    “Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #29
    Vivian Vande Velde
    “That's very kind of you," she said bitterly, for she no longer believed in kindness. "And you're willing to do this...why? Because you're fond of helping others?"

    "I'm fond of revenge," the dragon answered.”
    Vivian Vande Velde, Dragon's Bait: A Gripping YA Fantasy Novel Where a Falsely Accused Teen and a Dragon Forge an Alliance for Revenge

  • #30
    Marlene Dietrich
    “It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
    Marlene Dietrich



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