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  • #1
    Ocean Vuong
    “Dear God, if you are a season, let it be the one I passed through
    to get here.

    Here. That's all I wanted to be.

    I promise.”
    Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

  • #2
    Ocean Vuong
    “I am writing because they told me to never start a sentence with because. But I wasn't trying to make a sentence—I was trying to break free. Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.”
    Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

  • #3
    Ocean Vuong
    “& so what–if my feathers
    are burning. I
    never asked for flight.”
    Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

  • #4
    Ocean Vuong
    “& remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world.”
    Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

  • #5
    Amal El-Mohtar
    “Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another.”
    Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

  • #6
    Paige Lewis
    “I feel as if I’m on the moon listening to the air hiss out of my spacesuit, and I can’t find the hole. I’m the vice president of panic, and the president is missing.”
    Paige Lewis, Space Struck

  • #7
    Melina Marchetta
    “Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.”
    Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock

  • #8
    Ilona Andrews
    “If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons.”
    Ilona Andrews, Fate's Edge

  • #9
    Neil Gaiman
    “There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before.”
    Neil Gaiman, Stardust

  • #10
    Christopher Paolini
    “Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand."
    "Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.”
    Christopher Paolini, Eragon

  • #11
    Christopher Paolini
    “You must learn to see, what you are looking at”
    Christopher Paolini

  • #12
    Christopher Paolini
    “The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.”
    Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

  • #13
    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #14
    Lewis Carroll
    “But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
    "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
    "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
    "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #15
    Lewis Carroll
    “Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
    “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
    “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?”
    “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #16
    Rick Riordan
    “The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent this magical flying ram with golden wool, which picked them up in Greece and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important."
    "It was probably important to her.”
    Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

  • #17
    Rick Riordan
    “It's him," I said. "Typhon."
    I was seriously hoping Chiron would say something good, like 'No, that's our huge friend Leroy! He's going to help us!”
    Rick Riordan

  • #18
    Rick Riordan
    “Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

  • #19
    “How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”
    Evans G. Valens, The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont

  • #20
    J.M. Barrie
    “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #21
    J.M. Barrie
    “To live will be an awfully big adventure.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #22
    J.M. Barrie
    “Why can't you fly now, mother?"
    "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way."
    "Why do they forget the way?"
    "Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly.”
    J.M. Barrie

  • #23
    Lewis Carroll
    “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #24
    Kenneth Oppel
    “Let me get you all some punch,” I said.
    “You're leaving us?” said Isabel, sounding panicky.
    “I'll be right back,” I promised. “If anyone comes near you, just scream and run.”
    Kenneth Oppel, Starclimber

  • #25
    Christopher Paolini
    “HERE LIES BROM
    Who was
    A Rider bonded to the dragon Saphira
    Son of Holcomb and Nelda
    Beloved of Selena
    Father of Eragon Shadeslayer
    Founder of the Varden
    And Bane of the Forsworn.
    May his name live on in glory.
    Stydja unin mo'ranr”
    Christopher Paolini, Inheritance
    tags: brom

  • #26
    Christopher Paolini
    “Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility.”
    Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

  • #27
    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

  • #28
    Douglas Adams
    “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #29
    Douglas Adams
    “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #30
    Douglas Adams
    “For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy



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