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  • #1
    Ally Condie
    “And it is strange that absence can feel like presence. A missing so complete that if it were to go away, I would turn around, stunned, to see that the room is empty after all, when before it at least had something, if not him.”
    Ally Condie, Crossed

  • #2
    Claudia Gray
    “Now I know grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within. Something has been torn out from inside me that will never be filled up, not ever, no matter how long I live. They say "time heals," but even now, less than a week after my father's death, I know that's a lie. What people really mean is that eventually you'll get used to the pain. You'll forget who you were without it; you'll forget what you looked like without your scars.”
    Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You

  • #3
    Cassandra Clare
    “You asked me how I, being immortal, survive so many deaths. There is no great secret. You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #4
    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #5
    Sarah   Williams
    “Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse

  • #6
    Seanan McGuire
    “Because hope is a knife that can cut through the foundations of the world.”
    Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

  • #7
    Seanan McGuire
    “Nobody promised me a happy ending. They didn’t even promise me a happy existence.”
    Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky

  • #8
    Alexandra Christo
    “That's the thing about risks," Kye says. " It's impossible to know which ones are worth it until it's too late.”
    Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

  • #9
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Better terrible truths than kind lies.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #10
    Leigh Bardugo
    “She'd let herself be led because she hadn't known where she'd wanted to go.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #11
    Leigh Bardugo
    “The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #12
    Terry Pratchett
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

  • #13
    Lauren Oliver
    “Caelum was right: Why should they have to give so much, and never take anything in return?
    If everyone believed they were monsters, shouldn't they at least be allowed to have teeth?”
    Lauren Oliver, Ringer

  • #14
    Lauren Oliver
    “Words were funny things, she thought. The best ones carried dozens of other words nestled inside of them. "Thank you," she repeated.
    I love you, she thought. Good-bye.”
    Lauren Oliver, Ringer

  • #15
    Suzanne Collins
    “It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #16
    Suzanne Collins
    “Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #17
    Laini Taylor
    “Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”
    Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

  • #18
    Laini Taylor
    “Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?”
    Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

  • #19
    Laini Taylor
    “It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.”
    Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

  • #20
    Laini Taylor
    “Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.”
    Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

  • #21
    Laini Taylor
    “You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters."

    “Beautiful and full of monsters?"

    “All the best stories are.”
    Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

  • #22
    Laini Taylor
    “Yearning for love made her feel like a cat that was always twining around ankles, meowing Pet me, pet me, look at me, love me.
    Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

  • #23
    Laini Taylor
    “Soldiers and children do as they're told. Children grow out of it, but soldiers just die.”
    Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

  • #24
    “It’s odd, I think, how the thing you love most in a person can also be the thing you wish you could change.”
    Julie eahbaugh

  • #25
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #26
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #27
    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #28
    George R.R. Martin
    “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
    'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #29
    George R.R. Martin
    “I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”
    George R.R. Martin

  • #30
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows



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