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  • #1
    Neil Gaiman
    “If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

  • #2
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “A heart's a heavy burden.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

  • #3
    Cressida Cowell
    “There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination”
    Cressida Cowell, How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse

  • #4
    Stephenie Meyer
    “It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.”
    Stephenie Meyer, The Host

  • #5
    Nick Hornby
    “There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.”
    Nick Hornby, About a Boy

  • #6
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #7
    J.K. Rowling
    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #8
    Cressida Cowell
    “Being frightened is not the same as being a coward.”
    Cressida Cowell, How to Train Your Dragon

  • #9
    Cressida Cowell
    “It is a lot easier to be brave when you know you have no alternative.”
    Cressida Cowell, How to Train Your Dragon

  • #10
    Cressida Cowell
    “Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak.

    Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.”
    Cressida Cowell, How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse

  • #11
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

  • #12
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle
    tags: howl

  • #13
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

  • #14
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

  • #15
    Cressida Cowell
    “Human hearts are not made out of stone.
    Thank Thor.
    They can break, and heal, and beat again.”
    Cressida Cowell, How to Twist a Dragon's Tale

  • #16
    Cressida Cowell
    “For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.”
    Cressida Cowell, How to Steal a Dragon's Sword

  • #17
    Cressida Cowell
    “However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I don’t mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swords…I mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams.

    And as small and quiet and unimportant as our fighting may look, perhaps we might all work together…and break out of the prisons of our own making. Perhaps we might be able to keep this fierce and beautiful world of ours as free for all of us as it seemed to be on that blue afternoon of my childhood.”
    Cressida Cowell, How to Speak Dragonese

  • #18
    Cressida Cowell
    “But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.”
    Cressida Cowell, How to Speak Dragonese

  • #19
    Cressida Cowell
    “Sometimes it is not until the Final Chapter that you realise what a quest has REALLY been about all along.”
    Cressida Cowell, How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse

  • #20
    Lewis Carroll
    “I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass

  • #21
    Lewis Carroll
    “Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #22
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

  • #23
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

  • #24
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “Sophie and Howl were living - somewhat quarrelsomely it must be confessed, although they were said to be happiest that way - in the moving castle again”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

  • #25
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “It was time for a strong-minded woman to take charge. Abdullah was quite glad that Sophie was one.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air
    tags: humor

  • #26
    Neil Gaiman
    “You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

  • #27
    Neil Gaiman
    “Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

  • #28
    Neil Gaiman
    “People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

  • #29
    Rick Yancey
    “Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.”
    Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

  • #30
    Rick Yancey
    “Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.”
    Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave



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