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  • #1
    “I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables.”
    Kara Walker

  • #2
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #3
    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

  • #4
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #5
    Cassandra Clare
    “Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
    Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
    ..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
    "Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #6
    “I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said.
    "It would look stunning, My Lady," she called.
    She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.”
    Kristin Cashore, Graceling

  • #7
    “How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went unarmed and were taught nothing of fighting, while the strong were trained to the highest reaches of their skill.”
    Kristin Cashore, Graceling

  • #8
    That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent
    “That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.”
    David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

  • #9
    Colleen Houck
    “Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?”
    “Are you calling me stupid?”
    “Yes, but in a more poetic way!”
    “Well, here’s a poem for you. Get lost!”
    Colleen Houck

  • #10
    Colleen Houck
    “Perfect! Now we're being chased by hoards of monkeys! Perhaps you would care to name their species as we're attacked, just so I can appreciate the special traits of said monkey as it kills me!"
    "At least when the monkeys are harassing you, you dont have any time to harass me!”
    Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse

  • #11
    Colleen Houck
    “You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.”
    Colleen Houck, Tiger's Quest

  • #12
    Colleen Houck
    “You didn’t think I’d let you go alone, did you?”
    “No, but I’m grateful that I had you with me.”
    “Grateful is all I’m going to get, isn’t it?”
    “What else were you hoping for?”
    “Adoration, devotion, affection, infatuation, or just plain finding me irresistible.”
    “Sorry, Don Juan. You’ll have to live with my undying gratitude.”
    Colleen Houck, Tiger's Quest

  • #13
    Colleen Houck
    “He seemed very pleased with himself for surviving a near-death experience. I could practically hear him chanting to himself: I overcame. I conquered. I’m a man etc etc.”
    Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse

  • #14
    Colleen Houck
    “Vampire sea horse monkeys? Are you serious?”
    Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse

  • #15
    Colleen Houck
    “I was just slipping my pajama top over my head when I heard Ren bellow, “YOU ate ALL of my peanut . . . butter . . . COOKIES?”
    Colleen Houck, Tiger's Quest

  • #16
    Colleen Houck
    “That was a pygmy marmoset by the way. Just in case you were wondering."

    I wheezed. "Thank you oh Walking Monkey Dictionary.”
    Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse

  • #17
    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #18
    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #19
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #20
    Lemony Snicket
    “Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #21
    Lemony Snicket
    “People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

  • #22
    Lemony Snicket
    “Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #23
    Lemony Snicket
    “I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

  • #24
    Lemony Snicket
    “If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #25
    Lemony Snicket
    “A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #26
    Lemony Snicket
    “When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #27
    Lemony Snicket
    “All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #28
    Lemony Snicket
    “Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

  • #29
    Lemony Snicket
    “The sad truth is the truth is sad.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital

  • #30
    Lemony Snicket
    “I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning



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