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“You don't always need to know your destination when you set out on a journey.”
― Carole Wilkinson, Dragon Moon

tags: journeys, wisdom

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#2

“How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them.”
― Margo Lanagan, The Brides of Rollrock Island

tags: difference, differences, families

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#3

“That is the strangest thing about the world: how it looks so different from every point of view.”
― Lauren Oliver, Liesl & Po

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#4

“If everyone you knew jumped off a bridge, would you too?” Dr. Roger asked.
David had heard this before and knew you were supposed to say no. But was that really true? If everyone jumped off a bridge, maybe there was a good reason. Maybe the bridge was on fire.If anything, the guy who didn’t jump was the crazy one.”
― John M. Cusick, Girl Parts

tags: crowds, followers, following, hypothetical, hypothetical-situation

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#5

“Look at the stars,” said Tim. “Don’t you ever wonder what they’re for?”
The Night was an open book of constellations.
“They’re for the same as everything else, “said Sam. They’re just for themselves.”
The stars silently agreed.”
― Toby Forward, Fireborn

tags: meanings-of-things, stars

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#6

“Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it.”
― Katherine Paterson, The Flint Heart

tags: everyone-belongs, everyone-in-the-world

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#7

“Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.”
― Katherine Paterson, The Flint Heart

tags: everything, usefulness

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#8

“I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

tags: conversation, grown-up, words

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#9

“When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!”
― Daniel Pennac, Comme un roman

tags: books, importance, reading

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#10

“History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.”
― Mal Peet, Life: An Exploded Diagram

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#11

“So Tumpty tried hiding upside down, behind a pot plant, under a large cardboard box, with his eyes tightly closed.”
― Polly Dunbar, Where's Tumpty?

tags: hiding

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#12

“And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didn’t know was a feather on those wings. I could feel them tugging at the air, restless to be airborne.”
― Frank Cottrell Boyce, The Unforgotten Coat

tags: ignorance, small-mindedness, unknowing

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#13

“The King did what all wise husbands do. He did as he was told.”
― Toby Forward, Fireborn

tags: husband-and-wife, husband-and-wife-relationship, husbands, kings

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#14

“Flaxfield died on a Friday which was a shame, because he always ate a trout for dinner on Friday, and it was his favourite.”
― Toby Forward, Dragonborn

tags: death, fish, trout, untimely

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#15

“From the mud of adversity grows the lotus of joy”
― Carolyn Marsden, The Buddha's Diamonds

tags: adversity, hope, inspirational, joy

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#16

“I asked her what a true story was because I thought that all stories were made up. She said a true story was called fact, and a made-up story was called ficton. Auntie May said a made-up story is a bit like telling lies, only the people who read them knew that already and so it didn’t matter”
― Rebecca Lloyd

tags: books, fiction, reading

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#17

“Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to be with.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

tags: choice, families, family

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#18

“We are the choices we make.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

tags: the-knife-of-never-letting-go

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#19

“It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.
It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.
It's not a weakness.
It's your best strength.”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

tags: control, love, strength, weakness

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#20

“Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. "I think maybe everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking."
I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening.
"I think the asking is whether we get back up again.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

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#21

“Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

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#22

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

tags: philosophy, wisdom

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#23

“There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

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#24

“To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

tags: choice, cowardice, responsibility

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#25

“In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

tags: emotion

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#26

“Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

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#27

“Faith with proof is no faith at all.”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

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#28

“Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

tags: alive, hurt

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#29

“I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

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#30

“Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

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