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“Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois

“Emma looked back and forth between Thomas and Quinn. “I’m going to marry Thomas when I grow up,” she announced. Quinn smiled, “Sounds like a good plan.” “But you can marry him for now, if you want.”
― Breeana Puttroff, Seeds of Discovery

“I’m almost eight moons pregnant, Quinn, and we’re in the middle of a war. My stomach is so huge I’m surprised I fit through doorways. I’m snappy and edgy at spoons.”
― Breeana Puttroff, Leaves of Revolution

“I’m not saying you should marry the girl, Will. I’m saying it’s okay to talk to people.”
― Breeana Puttroff, Crossed Roses

“A note? No one had ever passed him a note.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, Fearless

“It would figure that the first time a girl wanted to talk to him, he’d knock her flat. “I’m”
― Brigid Kemmerer, Fearless

“She wondered if it was wrong that she was glad in some way that the men who’d taken her mother were the same men who’d killed Jace’s father all those years ago.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“My dad always says commit to the target.” Her”
― Brigid Kemmerer, Fearless

“The editor is always right.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

“It’s hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written,”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“They were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually in became too lonely or harsh or difficult to bear.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“I’ve learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best,”
― Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

“Shades of its former grandeur were still evident in the curving staircase, the chipped marble entryway floor, and the wide single-paned skylight overhead”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“He cut his glance toward Jace, who was walking a few paces ahead of them, apparently conversing with the cat. Clary wondered what they were talking about. Politics? Opera? The high price of tuna?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Fear is like a weed in a garden. Once you allow it to take root, it spreads, replicating itself, until, eventually, it chokes out all the other life there. Trust, love, kindness – none of those things can ever really bloom in a garden of fear.”
― Breeana Puttroff, Blooms of Consequence

“Most of the great evil in the world happens not at the hands of malice, but of fear. Because good people, the ones who would do the right thing, don’t do it, out of that fear.”
― Breeana Puttroff, Blooms of Consequence

“What stunned her even more was how they were both reacting now. They sat there, silent, right next to each other in the darkness, his hand wrapped around hers in a way that told her both that nothing had changed, and that everything had.”
― Breeana Puttroff, The Dusk Gate Chronicles Boxed Set, Books 1-4

“If it’s really important to you, I could like, pick you up and throw you on the couch or something.” That was all it took to start the giggles going again.”
― Breeana Puttroff, The Dusk Gate Chronicles Boxed Set, Books 1-4

“He shook his head, trying to shake the convoluted thoughts loose. He couldn't worry about it right now. Not about how Thomas felt, or how Quinn did, or even how he, himself did. They were where they were, and there were things to do. First and foremost, there was a baby to deliver.”
― Breeanna Putroff

“Becoming an adult, she’d learned, was a process that never fully stuck, and had to be completed over and over again when one was faced with new challenges.”
― Breeana Puttroff, Sprigs of Inception