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“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“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

“You can't stop the future
You can't rewind the past
The only way to learn the secret
...is to press play.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“you can eff off, too," I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--"
"Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not."
The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness.
"Now, that's simply laziness," said Will.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“We are our own memory-keepers and we have failed ourselves. It is like that game we played in school as children. Sitting in a circle, one student whispers a phrase into another student’s ear and the phrase is passed around until the last student in the circle repeats what she hears, only to find out it is nothing like what it is supposed to be.

This is our life now.”
― Carrie Ryan, The Forest of Hands and Teeth

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

“think of it this way," he said "It took nine months to get you born, so doesn't it figure it would take nine months to get you dead?”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say.
About anything.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Poo Todd!”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“When I first met you, that's what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought, I'm going to love this person because even the sky looks different.”
― Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Chaos

“It was crazy how a hearse and a pair of sneakers could cheer a guy up.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Chaos

“Sorry to disappoint you. He's not evil. He's just a jerk. Sometimes it's a fine line.”
― Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

“DEMON MATH
What is JUST in a world
you've ripped in two
as if there could be
a half for me
a half for you
what is FAIR when
there is nothing
left to share
what is YOURS when
your pain is mine to bear
this sad math is mine
this mad path is mine
subtract they say
don't cry
back to the desk
try
forget addition
multiply
and i reply
this is why
remainders
hate
division.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Chaos

“I'll love you until the day after forever.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Chaos

“In the end, the Wheel crushes us all.”
― Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Chaos

“I wish I could print up a sign and tape it on my forehead. I OFFICIALLY DO NOT WANT TO KISS ETHAN WATE. NOW PLEASE LET ME BE FRIENDS WITH HIM.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Chaos

“I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood”
― Scott Westerfeld, Specials

“Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?”
― Scott Westerfeld, Specials

“you just took on five million years of evolution again”
― Scott Westerfeld, Specials

“you're infamous, Tally. Everyone's terrified of you. The new system may have made the other cities nervous, but they seem to think my little gang of psychotic sixteen-year-olds is worse" - Cable to Tally”
― Scott Westerfeld, Specials

“One faces the future with one's past.”
― Pearl S. Buck

“We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
― A.A. Milne

“You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium