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  • #1
    Pablo Picasso
    “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #2
    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #3
    William Shakespeare
    “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
    William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

  • #4
    The earth has its music for those who will listen
    “The earth has its music for those who will listen”
    Reginald Vincent Holmes, Fireside Fancies

  • #5
    William Shakespeare
    “Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.”
    William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim

  • #6
    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #7
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
    Joyce Carol Oates

  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
    Mark Twain

  • #9
    Jack London
    “Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
    Jack London

  • #10
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #11
    Cassandra Clare
    “Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.
    "Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.”
    Cassandra Clare

  • #12
    Cassandra Clare
    “Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission."
    "Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered.
    "Selling them on what?"
    Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #13
    Cassandra Clare
    “Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously.
    "Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

  • #14
    Cassandra Clare
    “And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

  • #15
    Cassandra Clare
    “Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?"
    "No" Simon said, "If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

  • #16
    Cassandra Clare
    “You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?"
    "A long one?”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

  • #17
    Cassandra Clare
    “One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at."
    "Meaning you?"
    "What else?”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #18
    Cassandra Clare
    “Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #19
    Cassandra Clare
    “The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #20
    Cassandra Clare
    “Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" asked Simon.
    "No," Jace said. "Sometimes he sits on the couch and does it.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #21
    Cassandra Clare
    “I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #22
    Cassandra Clare
    “Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.”
    Cassandra Clare

  • #23
    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #24
    Cassandra Clare
    “Jace shook his blond head in exasperation.
    "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Glass



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