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“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." -Tally Youngblood”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

“I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“Are you saying that your fat-ass cat has turned me into a vampire?

Um, maybe?”
― Scott Westerfeld, Peeps

“And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.”
― Libba Bray

“The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.”
― Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

“I salute your spunk, but I question your sanity,” Sam said.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

“I refuse to let the past find me here.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“There was a roar of delight from the forward bench, and then the bearlike figure of Nils Ropehander came lumbering down the deck, bellowing congratulations.
"What's that? The General? Engaged? Well General, here's my hand in congratulations!"
The expression here's my hand turned out to be a loose one. Nils scooped Horace up in a massive bear hug of delight. The hug, unlike the expression, was not a loose one. When he released Horace, the young groom-to-be crumpled, moaning breathlessly, to the deck.”
― John Flanagan, The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

“But most days,
I wander around feeling invisible.
Like I'm a speck of dust
floating in the air
that can only be seen
when a shaft of light hits it.”
― Sonya Sones, One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies

“Until one comes who is mightier,
The one sprung from misery,
The one who was weak,
The one who was hunted,
The one marked with claw and vine,
The one named in secret,
The one called Jezelia.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception

“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“If you're afraid of your own dreams, you're welcome here in mine.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer