2026 Reading Challenge

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    Laura Amy Schlitz
    “My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”
    ― Laura Amy Schlitz
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    Jane Green
    “Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.”
    ― Jane Green, The Beach House
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    René Char
    “I believe in the magic and authority of words.”
    ― René Char
    tags: resistance, words
    1352 likes

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    Christian Bauman
    “Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.”
    ― Christian Bauman
    tags: learn, read, reading
    1874 likes

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    H. Rider Haggard
    “Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.”
    ― H. Rider Haggard, She
    tags: after-death, death, forget, forgetting, immortality, life, live-forever, mortality, sleep
    960 likes

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    Luigi Pirandello
    “Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.”
    ― Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “To do nothing is the way to be nothing.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne
    tags: nothing
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    Mia Couto
    “Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
    ― Mia Couto
    tags: humanity, stories, storytelling
    1043 likes

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    Frida Kahlo
    “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
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    Natsuki Takaya
    “Don't get lost. Give it a try. Go find the place that you're wishing for.”
    ― Natsuki Takaya
    tags: fruits-basket, haru, try
    877 likes

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    Marianne Williamson
    “Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.”
    ― Marianne Williamson, The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles
    tags: calling, healing
    1386 likes

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    Patricia Polacco
    “Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure…”
    ― Patricia Polacco
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    Earl Lovelace
    “I was thinking that if what distinguishes us as humans is our stupidity, what may redeem us is our grace.”
    ― Earl Lovelace
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    Abraham Sutzkever
    “If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”
    ― Abraham Sutzkever
    tags: misattributed-to-tom-stoppard
    1157 likes

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    Harsha Bhogle
    “The moment you put a deadline on your dream, it becomes a goal.”
    ― Harsha Bhogle, The Winning Way: Learnings from sport for managers
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    Michael Connelly
    “Everybody counts, or nobody counts.”
    ― Michael Connelly
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  • #17
    “Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.”
    ― Thea Dorn
    tags: reading
    1482 likes

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  • #18
    Josephine Tey
    “One of the secrets of a successful life is to know how to be a little profitably crazy.”
    ― Josephine Tey, To Love and Be Wise
    507 likes

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    André Maurois
    “The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.”
    ― Andre Maurois
    tags: andre-maurois-books-reading
    1539 likes

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    Sharon Creech
    “I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….”
    ― Sharon Creech
    tags: books
    1080 likes

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    Rose Tremain
    “In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.”
    ― Rose Tremain
    tags: endings, planning, writing
    812 likes

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    Martha Stewart
    “I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.”
    ― Martha Stewart
    tags: confidence, goals
    570 likes

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    Sarah J. Maas
    “Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
    tags: ideas, libraries, sarah-j-maas, throne-of-glass
    10880 likes

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    Sarah J. Maas
    “He looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the moment they’d met, when he’d understood that the prince was his brother in soul. “I love you.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
    tags: brothers, chaol, chaol-westfall, dorian, dorian-havilliard, friends, friendship, friendship-and-love, heir-of-fire, love, sarah-j-maas, throne-of-glass
    391 likes

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    Cassandra Clare
    “Jem touched the parabatai rune on his shoulder, through the thin material of his nightshirt. "I am not alone," he said. "Wherever we are, we are as one.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
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    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
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
    101561 likes

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    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
    tags: dreams, life
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    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
    tags: abilities
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    Cassandra Clare
    “There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
    tags: mortal-instruments, romance, teen-fantasy
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading
    15844 likes



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