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  • #1
    E. Lockhart
    “Be a little kinder than you have to.”
    E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

  • #2
    H.G. Wells
    “It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.”
    H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

  • #3
    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    Lloyd Alexander

  • #4
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Christopher Roden; Tsukasa Kobayashi; Akane Higashiyama; Hiroshi Takata

  • #5
    Rick Riordan
    “Tell the sun and stars hello for me.”
    Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

  • #6
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

  • #7
    Edith Hamilton
    “Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)”
    Edith Hamilton, Mythology

  • #8
    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

  • #9
    John Keats
    “Two souls with but a single thought,
    Two hearts that beat as one!”
    John Keats

  • #10
    Rick Riordan
    “Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

  • #11
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #12
    Mackenzi Lee
    “God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.”
    Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

  • #13
    Jeanette Winterson
    “Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.”
    Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

  • #14
    Edith Hamilton
    “This idea the Greeks had of him is best summed up not by a poet, but by a philosopher, Plato: “Love—Eros—makes his home in men’s hearts, but not in every heart, for where there is hardness he departs. His greatest glory is that he cannot do wrong nor allow it; force never comes near him. For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.”
    Edith Hamilton, Mythology

  • #15
    Sarah J. Maas
    “You make me want to live, Rowan. Not survive; not exist. Live.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

  • #16
    Madeline Miller
    “You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #17
    Neil Gaiman
    “Of course it was Loki. It's always Loki.”
    Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

  • #18
    Rick Riordan
    “But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.”
    Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

  • #19
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

  • #20
    Stephen Fry
    “The Greeks created gods that were in their image; warlike but creative, wise but ferocious, loving but jealous, tender but brutal, compassionate, but vengeful.”
    Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold

  • #21
    Madeline Miller
    “I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #22
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    “Only art and science can raise men to the level of gods.”
    Ludwig van Beethoven

  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #24
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “I used to think soul mates were two of the same. I used to think I was supposed to look for somebody that was like me. I don't believe in soul mates anymore and I'm not looking for anything. But if I did believe in them, I'd believe your soul mate was somebody who had all the things you didn't, that needed all the things you had. Not somebody who's suffering from the same stuff you are.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid , Daisy Jones & The Six

  • #25
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “It was easier to tell hero from villain when the stakes were only life and death. Everything in between gets harder.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

  • #26
    Casey McQuiston
    “Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.”
    Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

  • #27
    H.G. Wells
    “And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.”
    H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

  • #28
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #29
    Madeline Miller
    “He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #30
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club



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