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  • #1
    Tad Williams
    “Good stories will tell you that facing the lie is the worst terror of all. And there is no talisman or magic sword that is half so potent a weapon as truth”
    Tad Williams, To Green Angel Tower
    tags: truth

  • #2
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Don't feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

  • #3
    Victoria Aveyard
    “Anyone can betray anyone.”
    Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

  • #4
    J.K. Rowling
    “So why in the name of Merlin’s saggy left —”
    “Don’t talk to your mother like that.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #5
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    Allen Saunders

  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #7
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #8
    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    Charlaine Harris

  • #9
    Frank Herbert
    “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
    Frank Herbert

  • #10
    Wendy Higgins
    “It's not right, man,” Jay said, following my stare. “Some guys have all the luck.”
    “What?” I finally broke my trance to look at Jay.
    “That guy, the drummer? Get this. He's a killer musician, he gets tons of chicks, his dad's loaded, and as if that wasn't enough, he's got a friggin' English accent!”
    I had to smile at Jay's mix of envy and admiration.
    “What's his name?” I hollered as the third song started.
    “Kaidan Rowe. Oh, and that's another thing. A cool name! Bastard.”
    “How do you spell it?” I asked. It sounded like Ky-den.
    Jay spelled it for me. “It's A-I, like Thai food,” he explained.
    Kai, like Thai, only yummier. Gah! Who was this girl invading my brain?”
    Wendy Higgins, Sweet Evil

  • #11
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
    William Makepeace Thackeray

  • #12
    Rick Riordan
    “Myths are simply stories about truths we've forgotten.”
    Rick Riordan, The Sword of Summer

  • #13
    Rick Riordan
    “Could you do a glamour and turn into something smaller?" I asked it. "Preferably not a chain, since it's no longer the 1990s?"

    The sword didn't reply (duh), but I imagined it was humming at a more interrogative pitch, like, Such as what?

    "I dunno. Something pocket-size and innocuous. A pen, maybe?"

    The sword pulsed, almost like it was laughing. I imagined it saying, A pen sword. That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.”
    Rick Riordan, The Sword of Summer

  • #14
    James Joyce
    “Shut your eyes and see.”
    James Joyce

  • #15
    Tamora Pierce
    “Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
    Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones

  • #16
    Nicholson Baker
    “Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
    Nicholson Baker

  • #17
    J.K. Rowling
    “Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #18
    J.K. Rowling
    “When in doubt, go to the library.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #20
    Patricia Highsmith
    “My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
    Patricia Highsmith

  • #21
    Gertrude Stein
    “One must dare to be happy. ”
    Gertrude Stein

  • #22
    The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have
    “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
    Alice Walker

  • #23
    Jennifer L. Armentrout
    “I shrugged. “Actually, I didn’t tell her much of anything. She must’ve put two and two together all on her own and come up with you being a jerk face.”
    His gaze slid back to me and he grinned. “Ouch, shortie.”
    “Yeah, like that really bothered you.” I glanced back through the small window in the door that led to bio. Mr. Tucker was already at his desk—was Mrs. Cleo ever coming back?—and we only had a minute, tops, before the tardy bell rang. “What did you want?”
    Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out a thin slip of yellow paper, waving it in my face. “Guess what I found?”
    “Obviously not a better personality,” I remarked.
    “Ha. Funny.” He brushed the edge of the paper across my nose and smiled when I smacked it away.”
    Jennifer L. Armentrout, Stone Cold Touch

  • #24
    Sheila Hancock
    “It’s lovely loving, isn’t it? In fact, I find it almost better, because being loved sometimes embarrasses me, but loving is a gift.”
    Sheila Hancock

  • #25
    Chelsea Handler
    “Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”
    Chelsea Handler, Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me

  • #26
    Marcus Valerius Martialis
    “Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
    Marcus Valerius Martialis

  • #27
    “For the future of the earth, We shall fight for it ~Nyan!~”
    Mia Ikumi, Tokyo Mew Mew, Vol. 1

  • #28
    Renée Ahdieh
    “Do not fear what the setting sun may bring. Where there is a setting sun, there is also a rising one.”
    Renee Ahdieh, The Crown & the Arrow

  • #29
    Katherine Mansfield
    “Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.”
    Katherine Mansfield

  • #30
    Thomas Otway
    “Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.”
    Thomas Otway



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