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#1

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

tags: read, reader, reading

#1

“-Am I allowed to call you Grayson, or have you assumed a new identity as well?
-He's Frank.”
― Jen Turano, A Talent for Trouble

tags: funny, humor

15 likes

#2

“The gym is always open, except when it's closed.”
― trenton lee stewart

61 likes

#3

“She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

tags: age, children

49 likes

#4

“He really did posses the ability to be extremely annoying when he set his mind to it.”
― Jen Turano, A Talent for Trouble

tags: funny, humor

17 likes

#5

“- You are exceedingly annoying.
- Thank you.
- It was not a compliment.”
― Jen Turano, A Change of Fortune

tags: funny, humor

21 likes

#6

“Just as hundreds of brushstrokes comprised a finished canvas, people were made up of a lifetime of experiences, both good and bad. And without knowing what someone had endured, it was impossible to truly know them - and accept them - for who they were.”
― Tamera Alexander, A Lasting Impression

35 likes

#7

“Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Them when you need to find one, they will jump into your mind, waving their hands for you to pick them. And you can select whichever you like, just like a captain choosing a stickball team.”
― Karen Witemeyer

tags: literacy, reading

52 likes

#9

“Why was it that thoughts and plans always made more sense when confined to one's mind than when they exited one's mouth?”
― Karen Witemeyer, Stealing the Preacher

tags: thoughts

14 likes

#10

“For the record, Maren voted hot. Drew voted cold. They both voted a la mode. Because, honestly, what's the point of pie without ice cream?”
― Melissa Tagg, One Enchanted Christmas

3 likes

#11

“I can cry at the drop of a hat."
"You find hat-dropping distressful?"
"If it's a nice hat, and it has dropped in the mud, certainly. I could cry about that for days.”
― Jen Turano, A Most Peculiar Circumstance

tags: humor

6 likes

#12

“It can take a lot of strength to show up and be yourself...don't you think?”
― Ingrid Law, Scumble

39 likes

#13

“I couldn't fathom it myself, but I guessed that happy endings came in all shapes and sizes.”
― Ingrid Law, Savvy

33 likes

#14

“For better, worse or different, sometimes when things go back to normal, normal simply isn't normal anymore.”
― Ingrid Law, Scumble

26 likes

#15

“He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods; the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.”
― C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

tags: fantasy, literature, reading, reality, youth

74 likes

#16

“If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

tags: friends, silence

507 likes

#17

“Not lovelier. But a different kind of loveliness. There are so many kinds of loveliness.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

tags: barney-snaith, beauty, loveliness, lovely

13 likes

#18

“If you aren’t busy working on your own goals, you’ll be working to achieve somebody else’s goals.”
― Kevin Kruse, 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs

3 likes

#19

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: happiness

4133 likes

#20

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

4500 likes

#21

“Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: ambition

1066 likes

#22

“Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: imagination

1084 likes

#23

“I'm not a bit changed--not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real ME--back here--is just the same.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

314 likes

#24

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

16947 likes

#25

“Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, "If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

27 likes

#26

“She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

tags: humorous

44 likes

#27

“Theodore- Hello, Grandmother. You're looking more beautiful than ever.
His grandma- You did have to inherit your looks from someone.”
― Jen Turano, A Most Peculiar Circumstance

tags: funny, humor

15 likes

#28

“A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.”
― Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl

tags: decency, politeness

201 likes

#29

“I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

456 likes

#30

“I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

tags: inspirational

552 likes

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