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“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
― Sara Henderson

“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
― Henry James

“The tears I feel today
I'll wait to shed tomorrow.
Though I'll not sleep this night
Nor find surcease from sorrow.
My eyes must keep their sight:
I dare not be tear-blinded.
I must be free to talk
Not choked with grief, clear-minded.
My mouth cannot betray
The anguish that I know.
Yes, I'll keep my tears til later:
But my grief will never go.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
― William Blake

“The Darkest Minds tend to hide behind the most unlikely faces.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“Lampaxa Vorheridine? My Latin was never very good. What does that Translate to?"

"Um, nothing. It wasn't named by an Earth scientist. According to the database it was named by a Cheblookan aboard a frieghter when it stopped here looking for fresh food. His friend was killed by one as they searched the swamp for Greppers. After the hunting party killed the creature and determined that it was safe to eat if processed properly, the Cheblookan reportedly named it after his mother-in-law, Lampaxa Vorheridine. he said it sort of reminded him of her, even though they look nothing alike.”
― DePrima, Thomas

“When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers

“A girl that's born for hangin' ain't likely to be drowned.”
― L.A. Meyer

“Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to shake. Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
― William Blake

“Then it hits me....
And it hits me with the force of a blow. I am maybe fifteen years old. I am a girl. I am also acting lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and, by the Naval Rules and Regulations as regards the chain of command, I am in command of His Majesty's Ship Wolverine.”
― L.A. Meyer, Under the Jolly Roger: Being an Account of the Further Nautical Adventures of Jacky Faber

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

“Isn't that what stories do, make real things fake, and fake things real?”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse

“I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said.
"It would look stunning, My Lady," she called.
She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“Dear Dad,
When you sent me to school that morning, I thought you loved me. But now I see you for what you are. You called me a monster and a freak. But you’re the one that raised me.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.”
― Anne McCaffrey

“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

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

“Lift every voice and sing.”
― James Weldon Johnson

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
― Emma Lazarus

“Well done, Sister," Blind Seer said. "I look forward to meeting this One above Ones. Now, you must make ready. I, of course, am already perfect.”
― Jane Lindskold, Through Wolf's Eyes

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
― Ray Bradbury

“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March

“I don’t care,” I said, leaning my head back against the seat. “Can we just get lost and see where that lands us?”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight