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#1

“... 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

tags: books, mind

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#2

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

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#3

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: love

47041 likes

#5

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: books, power-of-words, reading

26908 likes

#6

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#7

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: books, reading

16487 likes

#8

“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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#9

“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: augustus-waters, hazel, heartbreak, privilege

14016 likes

#10

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#11

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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#12

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

tags: paper-towns

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#13

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
― John Green

tags: vlog

11063 likes

#14

“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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#15

“I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

5298 likes

#16

“Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#17

“If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

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#18

“Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: francois-rabelais, last-words

4619 likes

#19

“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: dauntless, divergent, fearless, four, tris

11869 likes

#20

“Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: divergent, fear

5673 likes

#21

“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

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#22

“Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

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#23

“It must require bravery to be honest all the time.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

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#24

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

101577 likes

#25

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

50603 likes

#26

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dreams, life

48243 likes

#27

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: mischief

37369 likes

#28

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

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#29

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: live-death-love

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#30

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: truth

16382 likes

#31

“Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: wit

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