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  • #1
    “Do act mysterious. It always keeps them coming back for more.”
    Carolyn Keene, Nancy's Mysterious Letter

  • #2
    Ally Condie
    “Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”
    Ally Condie, Matched

  • #3
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #4
    Helen Keller
    “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
    Helen Keller

  • #5
    Neal Shusterman
    “Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.”
    Neal Shusterman, Everfound

  • #6
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #7
    Cassandra Clare
    “It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

  • #8
    Agatha Christie
    “An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
    Agatha Christie

  • #9
    Cassandra Clare
    “Thank you,” Simon said. “It’s a joke, Isabelle. He’s the Count. He likes counting. You know. ‘What did the Count eat today, children? One chocolate chip cookie, two chocolate chip cookies, three chocolate chip cookies . . .’”

    There was a rush of cold air as the door of the restaurant opened, letting in another customer. Isabelle shivered and reached for her black silk scarf. “It’s not realistic.”

    “What would you prefer? ‘What did the Count eat today, children? One helpless villager, two helpless villagers, three helpless villagers . . .”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

  • #10
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #11
    Sarah Dessen
    “Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”
    Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

  • #12
    Sarah Dessen
    “Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.”
    Sarah Dessen

  • #13
    J.K. Rowling
    “You could say sorry," suggested Harry bluntly.
    "What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?" muttered Ron.
    "What did you have to imitate her for?"
    "She laughed at my mustache!"
    "So did I, it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  • #14
    Melissa de la Cruz
    “Was he hungry? He'd had an enormous breakfast, but the transition from the glimpse had taken a lot out of him. Did they serve lunch in Hell? Should he have packed a snack? Why was he suddenly thinking about food?”
    Melissa de la Cruz, Lost in Time

  • #15
    Lauren Kate
    “They're just talking. They're flirting kind of like they're strangers, but at the same time they also seem to know each other really well. I don't get it."
    "So they're taking it slow. What's wrong with that?" Bill asked. "Kids today, they just want things to go fast-- boom boom BOOM.”
    Lauren Kate, Passion

  • #16
    Carl Hiaasen
    “From the bow of the canoe she asked, "Do you know a rain dance?"
    "First I need a virgin.”
    Carl Hiaasen, Nature Girl

  • #17
    “So what are you suggesting?" Grandfather asked. "We find a more acceptable group of people, then bring the Sacrifice to them? How do you propose we find them, a Facebook post? 'Click here to apply for eternal life'?”
    Hilary Duff, Devoted

  • #18
    Stephanie Perkins
    “Soap?"
    "School of America in Paris" he explains. "SOAP".
    Nice. My father sent me here to be cleansed.”
    Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

  • #19
    Stephanie Perkins
    “Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring."
    I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?"
    "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.”
    Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

  • #20
    Kimberly Derting
    “What are you doing here?" she asked as she slowed from a jog to a walk and placed her hands on her hips. It would take her a few minutes to get her breathing back to normal. Longer if he kept smiling at her like that.
    He shrugged. "I couldn't sleep. What about you?"
    She opted for the obvious and filled her voice with as much sarcasm as she could. "I live here, actually”
    Kimberly Derting, The Body Finder

  • #21
    Cynthia Hand
    “This is isn't going to become one of those creepy situations where you show up at all hours of the night to watch me sleep, is it?" he asks playfully.”
    Cynthia Hand, Hallowed

  • #22
    Cynthia Hand
    “Hi there," Tucker says brightly, like we're bumping into each other on the street.
    "Uh, hi."
    "Nice night for stalking," he observes.
    "No, I was---"
    "Get your butt in here, Carrots.”
    Cynthia Hand, Hallowed

  • #23
    Cynthia Hand
    “I sneaked out to his house a couple times in the middle of the night to watch over him while he slept, just in case, I don't know, his comic book collection decided to spontaneously combust. This was dumb and admittedly creepy in an Edward Cullen kind of way.”
    Cynthia Hand, Hallowed

  • #24
    Julian Barnes
    “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
    Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

  • #25
    Sarah Dessen
    “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
    Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

  • #26
    Irving Stone
    “There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
    Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

  • #27
    Nicholas Sparks
    “Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.”
    Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

  • #28
    Kelly Keaton
    “I barely knew Sebastian. You knew him enough to suck face.
    Kelly Keaton, Darkness Becomes Her

  • #29
    “I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
    In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #30
    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You



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