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  • #1
    David Baldacci
    “Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
    David Baldacci, The Camel Club

  • #2
    David Baldacci
    “When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.”
    David Baldacci, True Blue

  • #3
    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    Voltaire

  • #4
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    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

  • #8
    Benjamin Franklin
    “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

  • #9
    Tamora Pierce
    “Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
    Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

  • #10
    Edith Sitwell
    “Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
    Edith Sitwell

  • #11
    Christopher Reeve
    “At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.”
    Christopher Reeve, Nothing Is Impossible: Reflections on a New Life

  • #12
    Christopher Reeve
    “there is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from it”
    Christopher Reeve, Nothing Is Impossible: Reflections on a New Life

  • #13
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #14
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    L.M. Montgomery

  • #15
    Jasper Fforde
    “After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.”
    Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots

  • #16
    A.A. Milne
    “Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #17
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “My heart is warm with the friends I make,
    And better friends I'll not be knowing,
    Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
    No matter where it's going.”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Selected Poetry

  • #18
    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #19
    Sheryl Sandberg
    “What would you do if you weren't afraid?”
    Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

  • #20
    Liz Smith
    “Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.”
    Liz Smith

  • #21
    Barbara Sher
    “What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.”
    Barbara Sher, I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It

  • #22
    Og Mandino
    “I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them.”
    Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World

  • #23
    Barbara Sher
    “Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" Always choose what goes toward what you want.”
    Barbara Sher, I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It

  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #25
    Angeline Boulley
    “When someone dies, everything about them becomes past tense. Except for the grief. Grief stays in the present. It’s even worse when you’re angry at the person. Not just for dying. But for how.”
    Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper's Daughter

  • #26
    Angeline Boulley
    “Inaction is a powerful choice”
    Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

  • #27
    Angeline Boulley
    “We love imperfect people. We can love them and not condone their actions and beliefs.”
    Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter



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