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    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
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Leif Enger
    “....her life would be a giddy crossword, working down from some clues and across from others.”
    ― Leif Enger (So Brave, Young, and Handsome)
    tags: books
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Dr. Seuss
    “A person's a person, no matter how small.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!
    tags: inspirational
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    John Green
    “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
    tags: books, reading
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    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: compassion, life, suffering
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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Judy Blume
    “Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
    ― Judy Blume
    tags: books, censor, communication, freedom, philosophy
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    Markus Zusak
    “She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed with overcrowded yet immaculate shelving. It was barely possible to see paintwork. There were all different styles and sizes of lettering on the spines of the black, the red, the gray, the every-colored books. It was one of the most beautiful things Liesel Meminger had ever seen.

    With wonder, she smiled.

    That such a room existed!”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: books
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    John Green
    “The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: memories
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    Chris Crutcher
    “...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.”
    ― Chris Crutcher, Whale Talk
    tags: bigotry, prejudice, racism, small-mindedness
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
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    Jim Butcher
    “In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!”
    ― Jim Butcher, Summer Knight
    tags: harry-dresden, humor, motivation
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    Jim Butcher
    “Hell's bells, irony blows.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites
    tags: harry-dresden, humor, irony
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    Jim Butcher
    “If I need you I'll give you a signal.'
    'What signal?'
    'I'll imitate the scream of a terrified little girl”
    ― Jim Butcher
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: chocolate, food, humor
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    Eoin Colfer
    “Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
    tags: confidence, humor, ignorance, knowledge
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you -- and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.

    [Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: exploration, libraries, life, reading
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    Gary D. Schmidt
    “Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.”
    ― Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now
    tags: librarians
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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    Ernest Cline
    “People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.”
    ― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
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    John Green
    “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: amsterdam, freedom, sin
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
    tags: lone-wolf, pain, scar
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    Derek Landy
    “Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.”
    ― Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant
    tags: mystery, problems, simplicity, solutions
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    Jim Butcher
    “No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty
    tags: harry-dresden
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    Harlan Coben
    “Mrs. Friedman lived in a happy snow globe of AP History.”
    ― Harlan Coben, Seconds Away
    tags: history, humor
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    Laini Taylor
    “Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them.

    And its snap split the world in two.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight
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    “Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
    ― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
    tags: improbability, life
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    Jasper Fforde
    “Do I have to talk to insane people?"
    "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, The Woman Who Died a Lot
    tags: crazy-people, librarians
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