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    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
    tags: glbt, simon-spier
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: leigh-bardugo, six-of-crows
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    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    Clare Vanderpool
    “Who would dream that one can love without being crushed under the weight of it?”
    ― Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
    A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
    Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
    And when it's morning again, they'll wash away
    Here it's safe, here it's warm
    Here the daisies guard you from every harm
    Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
    Here is the place where I love you.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: katniss, rue, song
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
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    Katie McGarry
    “I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”
    ― Katie McGarry, Take Me On
    tags: trouble
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    Suzanne Collins
    “You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: the-hunger-games
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    Suzanne Collins
    “What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Are you, are you coming to the tree?
    Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
    Strange things did happen here.
    No stranger would let it be if we met up
    At midnight in the hanging tree.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: mockingjay
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    Rick Riordan
    “Jason scratched his head. "You named him Festus? You know that in Latin, ‘festus’ means ‘happy’? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
    tags: jason, names
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-reading
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    Lemony Snicket
    “People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto
    tags: life
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    Lemony Snicket
    “I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril
    tags: humor
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    Christopher Paolini
    “Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
    tags: books, christopher-paolini, eragon, good-reads
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    Clare Vanderpool
    “Memories were like sunshine. They warmed you up and left a pleasant glow, but you couldn't hold them.”
    ― Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest
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    Clare Vanderpool
    “Which would you rather be, Jackie? Angry mad or crazy mad? I think I'd rather be crazy mad, because you can be crazy and still happy.”
    ― Clare Vanderpool, Navigating Early
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    Clare Vanderpool
    “This was a land of lost souls. Human beings who had weathered great storms in life, had suffered unspeakable loss, had been put to painful tests of existence, and still remained standing—but just barely.”
    ― Clare Vanderpool, Navigating Early
    tags: kids-books
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    Clare Vanderpool
    “If there is such a thing as a universal--and I wasn't ready to throw all of mine out the window--it's that there is power in a story. And if someone pays you such a kindness as to make up a tale so you'll enjoy a gingersnap, you go along with that story and enjoy every last bite.”
    ― Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest
    tags: gingersnaps, kindness, stories
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    Anthony Burgess
    “Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
    ― Anthony Burgess
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    Tennessee Williams
    “If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams
    tags: angels, demons
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Cassandra Clare
    “They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
    tags: grief, healing, magnus-bane, time, will-herondale
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  • #27
    The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have
    “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
    ― Alice Walker
    tags: inspirational
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    Mo Yan
    “Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?”
    ― Mo Yan, Red Sorghum
    tags: existence
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  • #29
    “People only rooted for the underdog in movies, not in middle school.”
    ― Sean Platt & David Wright, Yesterday's Gone: Season One
    tags: fights, highschool, underdog
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135491 likes



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