2026 Reading Challenge

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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  • #3
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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  • #4
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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  • #5
    Margaret Atwood
    “In the desert there is no sign that says, Thou shalt not eat stones. — Sufi proverb”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
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  • #6
    Stevie O'Connor
    “Sometimes at night I would look out and up at the glow rising up around me through the plastic and it would just make me shudder. It reminded me of larvae. We were like pale grubs in our eggs. When I got the horrors like that, I requested a little yellow pill from the dial-a-doc and flopped down into the fuzz along with everyone else.”
    ― Stevie O'Connor, In A Mirror City
    tags: dystopian-fiction, horrors, in-a-mirror-city, maja-larsen
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  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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  • #8
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art
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  • #9
    Annie Proulx
    “You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
    ― Annie Proulx
    tags: reading, words, writing
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  • #10
    G.I. Gurdjieff
    “Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”
    ― G.I. Gurdjieff
    tags: self-awareness, self-discovery, self-knowledge
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  • #11
    G.I. Gurdjieff
    “Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.”
    ― G.I. Gurdjieff
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  • #12
    George R.R. Martin
    “We're children. We're supposed to be childish.”
    ― George R.R. Martin
    tags: childhood, innocence, myrcella, myrcella-baratheon
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  • #13
    José Ortega y Gasset
    “Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
    ― José Ortega y Gasset
    tags: interests, personality, values
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    Diane Duane
    “Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?”
    ― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard
    tags: belief, change, faith, life, magic, universe
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    Katherine Dunn
    “The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort”
    ― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
    tags: lies, lying, truth
    468 likes

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  • #16
    Jodi Picoult
    “Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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  • #17
    Gary Paulsen
    “I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”
    ― Gary Paulsen, Shelf Life: Stories by the Book
    tags: books, reading
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  • #18
    Alice Oseman
    “Two girls walk past in gargantuan heels and dresses so tight that their skin is spilling out, and one of them says to the other, "Wait, who the fuck is Lewis Carroll?" and in my imagination I pull a gun out of my pocket, shoot them both and then shoot myself.”
    ― Alice Oseman, Solitaire
    tags: dead-serious, humor, lewis-carroll, literature
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  • #19
    “Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed—remember you can go anywhere.”
    ― Joanna Lumley
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  • #20
    Maya Angelou
    “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: oprah-s-thank-you-game, people
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  • #21
    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    ― Steve Jobs
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  • #22
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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  • #23
    Lemony Snicket
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, horseradish, lemony-snicket, true
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  • #24
    Bob Marley
    “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: music
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    Ian Rankin
    “Witches never existed, except in people’s minds. All there was in the olden days was women and some men who believed in herbal cures and in folklore and in the wish to fly. Witches? We’re all witches in one way or another. Witches was the invention of mankind, son. We’re all witches beneath the skin.”
    ― Ian Rankin, The Flood
    tags: folklore, witches
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    Ian Rankin
    “You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.”
    ― Ian Rankin, Blood Hunt
    tags: environment, nature, oceans, pollution, preservation
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  • #27
    Anna Akhmatova
    “Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.”
    ― Anna Akhmatova
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  • #28
    Mercedes Lackey
    “If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”
    ― Mercedes Lackey
    tags: humor
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  • #29
    Grace Crandall
    “he had never been meant to be a spy; he was a soldier. a soldier kept his sanity by distancing himself from his enemies, making them something far away and almost inhuman; merely an idea that bled when you stabbed it.”
    ― Grace Crandall, Ashes
    tags: enemy, humanity, soldier, spy
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  • #30
    Dean Koontz
    “Intuition is seeing with the soul.”
    ― Dean Koontz
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  • #31
    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
    8516 likes



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