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  • #1
    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “Only bad books have good endings.
    If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.”
    Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

  • #2
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “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

  • #3
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #4
    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.”
    Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

  • #5
    J.K. Rowling
    “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

  • #6
    Eoin Colfer
    “It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”
    Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

  • #7
    H.L. Mencken
    “I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
    H.L. Mencken

  • #8
    Eoin Colfer
    “Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
    Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

  • #9
    Rick Riordan
    “With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
    Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #11
    Gordon Korman
    “The test! It was as if they believed the test was an infallible superbeing that had descended to earth on a great space ark surrounded by thunderbolts of perfection.”
    Gordon Korman, Ungifted

  • #12
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #13
    J.K. Rowling
    “Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.
    Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git.
    Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.
    Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #14
    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #15
    André Brink
    “My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
    André Brink

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Rick Riordan
    “Nico," I said at last, "shouldn't you be sitting at the Hades table?"

    He shrugged. "Technically, yes. But if I sit alone at my table, strange things happen. Cracks open in the floor. Zombies crawl out and start roaming around. It's a mood disorder. I can't control it. That's what I told Chiron. "

    "And is it true?" I asked.

    Nico smiled thinly. "I have a note from my doctor."

    Will raised his hand. "I'm his doctor.”
    Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

  • #19
    Rick Riordan
    “He faced us. “You hear that, guys? A batch of cookies is depending on me. If you get me killed on the way to camp, I am going be ticked off.”
    Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

  • #20
    Rick Riordan
    “Used to be goddy Now uptown feeling shoddy Bah, haiku don’t rhyme”
    Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

  • #21
    Rick Riordan
    “The the glow become brighter: a holographic golden sickle with a few sheaves of wheat, rotating just above Meg McCaffrey.
    A boy in the crowd gasped. 'She's a communist!'
    A girl who'd been sitting at Cabin Four's table gave him a disgusted sneer. 'No, Damien, that's my mom's symbol.”
    Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

  • #22
    Rick Riordan
    “Check your spam folder
    The prophecies might be there
    No? Well, I'm stumped. Bye”
    Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

  • #23
    Rick Riordan
    “Zeus needed someone to blame, so of course he’d picked the handsomest, most talented, most popular god in the pantheon: me.”
    Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

  • #24
    Rick Riordan
    “They have gone missing?
    No, no, no, no, no, no, no
    No, et cetera”
    Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

  • #25
    Rick Riordan
    “APOLLO'S DAILY MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH

    "You are gorgeous and people love you!”
    Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

  • #26
    Lemony Snicket
    “I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.”
    Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

  • #27
    Lemony Snicket
    “Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.”
    Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

  • #28
    Lemony Snicket
    “Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.”
    Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

  • #29
    Lemony Snicket
    “Do the scary thing first, and get scared later.”
    Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

  • #30
    Lemony Snicket
    “Nobody wants to hear that you will try your best. It is the wrong thing to say. It is like saying 'I probably won't hit you with a shovel.' Suddenly everyone is afraid you will do the opposite.”
    Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?



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