2026 Reading Challenge

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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: humor, love, romantic, women
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    George Gissing
    “I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.”
    ― George Gissing
    tags: books, literature, nose, reading
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  • #4
    Gena Showalter
    “Roses are red, violets are blue, I have five fingers, the middle one is for you.”
    ― Gena Showalter, The Queen of Zombie Hearts
    tags: funny, insult, poem
    171 likes

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  • #5
    Stephenie Meyer
    “I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
    tags: bella-swan, dreams, edward, hope, night, stars
    11065 likes

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  • #6
    Manuel Puig
    “The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

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    ― Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays
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  • #7
    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing
    6450 likes

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  • #8
    Garth Risk Hallberg
    “Sometimes you weren’t yet the person you needed to be to do the work you needed to do.”
    ― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
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    Garth Risk Hallberg
    “You couldn’t trust people to be tomorrow what they had been yesterday.”
    ― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
    tags: people, trust
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  • #10
    Roberto Bolaño
    “Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
    ― Roberto Bolaño, 2666
    tags: books, reading
    2493 likes

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  • #11
    José Ortega y Gasset
    “Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
    ― José Ortega y Gasset
    tags: interests, personality, values
    1933 likes

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  • #12
    Stephen King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    ― Stephen King, Different Seasons
    tags: life
    9513 likes

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  • #13
    Ingrid Bergman
    “Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!”
    ― Ingrid Bergman
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  • #14
    Michael Dobbs
    “Why be so bloody miserable when you can pick up a good book or watch a great television drama?”
    ― Michael Dobbs
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    Douglas Wood
    “The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.”
    ― Douglas Wood
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    Anne Rice
    “A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
    tags: glass, humor, lestat, logic, luxury, meaning, reason, singer, vampire
    150 likes

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  • #17
    Anne Rice
    “As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
    tags: mortality
    87 likes

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  • #18
    Anne Rice
    “an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
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  • #19
    Anne Rice
    “Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
    ― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
    tags: good-evil
    2866 likes

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  • #20
    Anne Rice
    “The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.”
    ― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
    658 likes

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  • #21
    Anne Rice
    “The only power that exists is inside ourselves.”
    ― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
    tags: confidence
    390 likes

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  • #22
    Anne Rice
    “How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.”
    ― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
    tags: words
    154 likes

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  • #23
    Anne Rice
    “Every moment must be first known and then savored.”
    ― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
    tags: life
    129 likes

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  • #24
    Anne Rice
    “Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.”
    ― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
    tags: fantasy, lestat, vampire
    100 likes

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  • #25
    Anne Rice
    “Let the flesh instruct the mind.”
    ― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
    tags: vampire
    100 likes

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  • #26
    “Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
    ― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein
    tags: confidence, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, life, life-philosophy, optimism, power-of-words
    2473 likes

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  • #27
    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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  • #28
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You
    tags: bibliotherapy, books, escape, good-habits, life, pleasure, reading, refuge
    2256 likes

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  • #29
    Anne Rice
    “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
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  • #30
    Anne Rice
    “Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
    232 likes



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