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  • #1
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
    Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #3
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #4
    Sabaa Tahir
    “Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.”
    Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

  • #5
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “I’ve been thinking a lot about Adam Parrish and his band of merry men,” Mr. Gray admitted. “And this dangerous world they tread.”
    “That’s a strange way of putting it. I would have said Richard Gansey and his band of merry men.”
    He inclined his head as if he could see her point of view as well, even if he didn’t share it.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

  • #6
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “She felt one thousand years old. She also felt like maybe she was a condescending brat. She wanted her bike. She wanted her friends, who were also one-thousand-year-old condescending brats. She wanted to live in a world where she was surrounded by one-thousand-year-old condescending brats.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

  • #7
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “She felt bigger than her body. High as the stars. He leaned toward her — her heart spun again — and pressed his cheek against hers. His lips didn’t touch her skin, but she felt his breath, hot and uneven, on her face. His fingers splayed on either side of her spine. Her lips were so close to his jaw that she felt his hint of stubble at the end of them. It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she’d done this before and already she longed to do it again.
    Oh, help, she thought. Help, help, help.
    He pulled away. He said, “And now we never speak of it again.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

  • #8
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #9
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding her own.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #10
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Gansey had always felt as if there were two of him: the Gansey who was in control, able to handle any situation, able to talk to anyone, and then, the other, more fragile Gansey, strung out and unsure, embarrassingly earnest, driven by naive longing.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #11
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #12
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Ronan was broken; Ronan was fixable; Ronan had a soul.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

  • #13
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “I am being perfectly fucking civil.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

  • #14
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #15
    Sabaa Tahir
    “Fear is only your enemy if you allow it to be.”
    Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

  • #16
    Sabaa Tahir
    “I'd rather die than live with no mercy, no honor, no soul.”
    Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

  • #17
    Sabaa Tahir
    “But I’m not strong. I’m weak, and I’m sick of pretending I’m not.”
    Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

  • #18
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi



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