2026 Reading Challenge

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    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore
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    Susan Sontag
    “I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Victor Hugo
    “Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
    ― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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  • #8
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    H.L. Mencken
    “I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, whiskey
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    Hervé Le Tellier
    “There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
    ― Hervé Le Tellier
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    Warsan Shire
    “give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.”
    ― Warsan Shire
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    Dodie Smith
    “How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: jane-austen
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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  • #16
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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  • #18
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    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
    tags: abilities
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    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
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Gail Carson Levine
    “A library is infinity under a roof.”
    ― Gail Carson Levine
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    Gail Carson Levine
    “There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.”
    ― Gail Carson Levine, Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly
    tags: books, re-reading, reading, words
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    Gail Carson Levine
    “Step follows step,
    Hope follows Courage,
    Set your face towards danger,
    Set your heart on victory.”
    ― Gail Carson Levine, The Two Princesses of Bamarre
    tags: courage-builder, inspirational, victory
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  • #24
    A.A. Milne
    “Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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    A.A. Milne
    “It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”
    ― A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: friendship
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    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: inspirational
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: caring, inspirational, love, roses, time
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