2026 Reading Challenge

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    Ransom Riggs
    “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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    Patrick Ness
    “It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.”
    ― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men
    tags: perseverance
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Natalie Babbitt
    “Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”
    ― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
    tags: life
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
    tags: inspirational, story-teller, storytelling, your-gift
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    Nancy Werlin
    “No. It's actually not okay. And I hate when people say that, when they say it's okay even though it's not. It's better to tell the truth.”
    ― Nancy Werlin, The Rules of Survival
    tags: lying
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    Jeannette Walls
    “If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.”
    ― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses
    tags: appreciation, earth, god, lord, religion, sunrise, world
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    Jeannette Walls
    “It (the sun) didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.”
    ― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses
    tags: life-and-living
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  • #11
    Mo Willems
    “If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
    ― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
    tags: fairy-tales, humor, humorous, philosophy, psychology
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  • #12
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
    ― Charles Spurgeon
    tags: qoutes-to-live-by
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just don’t have time,’ I’m thinking, ‘How can you not have time?’ I read when I’m drying my hair. I read in the bath. I read when I’m sitting in the bathroom. Pretty much anywhere I can do the job one-handed, I read.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
    tags: reading
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    Kristin Levine
    “I think a friend is someone who helps you change for the better. And whether you see them once a day or once a year, if it's a true friend, it doesn't matter.”
    ― Kristin Levine, The Lions of Little Rock
    tags: friendship
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  • #17
    Kristin Levine
    “Because all the words in the world won't do much good if they're just rattling around in your head.”
    ― Kristin Levine, The Lions of Little Rock
    tags: words
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    Ruta Sepetys
    “I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
    tags: fools, lies, pretending, pretense, truth
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    Ruta Sepetys
    “She held her breath in one hand and her suitcase in the other.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
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    Ruta Sepetys
    “The books, raped and rummaged of their dignity, lay in heaps on the floor.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
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  • #21
    Emily Ruskovich
    “How quickly someone else's life can enter through the cracks we don't know are there until this foreign thing is inside of us. We are more porous than we know.”
    ― Emily Ruskovich, Idaho
    tags: acceptance-of-others, humanity, inspirational, love
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    Jeff Zentner
    “Nothing stops when we’re gone,” Lydia said. “The seasons don’t stop. This river doesn’t stop. Vultures will keep flying in circles. The lives of the people we love won’t stop. Time keeps unspooling. Stories keep getting written.”
    ― Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King
    tags: death, dillard, lydia
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    Jeff Zentner
    “I sometimes look at my bookshelf now and think about how someday I'm going to die without ever reading a lot of the books there. And one might be life-changingly good and I'll never know.”
    ― Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days
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  • #24
    “Isn’t it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?”
    ― Esther Earl, This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
    tags: death, life, sadness
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  • #25
    Lisa Scottoline
    “I read, therefore, I matter.”
    ― Lisa Scottoline, My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman
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  • #26
    Shonda Rhimes
    “Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. As your inner voice tells you to. Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be.”
    ― Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
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  • #27
    James Allen
    “Man is made and unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons which will destroy him. He also creates the tools with which he will build for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peach. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and their master. ”
    ― James Allen
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  • #28
    “AUGUST PULLMAN'S PRECEPT
    Everyone deserves a standing ovation because we all overcometh the world. --Auggie”
    ― R.J. Palacio, Wonder
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  • #29
    “By the way, I love your precept. I agree, sometimes it’s good to start over. A fresh start gives us the chance to reflect on the past, weigh the things we’ve done, and apply what we’ve learned from those things to the future. If we don’t examine the past, we don’t learn from it.”
    ― R.J. Palacio, Wonder
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  • #30
    David Arnold
    “We sit there, just being together, not speaking or even looking at each other, and it feels quietly tectonic, the kind of moment that might move a mountain if it were let outside.”
    ― David Arnold, The Electric Kingdom
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