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  • #1
    Rainbow Rowell
    “I just want to break that song into pieces and love them all to death.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

  • #2
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Or maybe, he thought now, he just didn't recognize all those other girls. The way a computer drive will spit out a disk if it doesn't recognize the formatting.
    When he touched Eleanor's hand, he recognized her. He knew.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

  • #3
    Rainbow Rowell
    “My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

  • #4
    Stephen Chbosky
    “Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.”
    Stephen Chbosky

  • #5
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

  • #6
    Rainbow Rowell
    “I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

  • #7
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

  • #8
    Becky Albertalli
    “Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it shouldn't be this big awkward thing whether you're straight, gay, bi, or whatever. I'm just saying.”
    Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

  • #9
    Becky Albertalli
    “White shouldn't be the default any more than straight should be the default. There shouldn't even be a default.”
    Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
    tags: glbt

  • #10
    Becky Albertalli
    “The way I feel about him is like a heartbeat -- soft and persistent, underlying everything.”
    Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

  • #11
    Rainbow Rowell
    “I am going to die kissing Simon Snow. Aleister Crowley, I'm living a charmed life.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #12
    Rainbow Rowell
    “It's the good things that hurt when you're missing them.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #13
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

  • #14
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

  • #15
    Rainbow Rowell
    “To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

  • #16
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

  • #17
    Tom Leveen
    “I'm the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her.”
    Tom Leveen, Party

  • #18
    Tom Leveen
    “A good rock band is like a great lover. Their rhythms simultaneously jolt and calm you. They know when and where to tease you to make it feel the best, how to draw from you the ultimate pleasure.”
    Tom Leveen

  • #19
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #20
    Sarah J. Maas
    “You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #21
    Ava Dellaira
    “I think a lot of people want to be someone, but we are scared that if we try, we won't be as good as everyone imagines we could be.”
    Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

  • #22
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #23
    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    George R. R. Martin

  • #24
    George R.R. Martin
    “Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #25
    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #26
    J.M. Barrie
    “Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #27
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #28
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #29
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “When there's a god, there's always a legion of devils.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #30
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “His mind was logical, but his traitorous heart stuttered from beat to beat.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys



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