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“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
― Maya Angelou

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
― Lucille Ball

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
― C.S. Lewis

“They will not use my tears for their entertainment.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“The moment our hearts shattered? It belongs to us.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“Fire is catching, she’d say, but if this one burns down the arena, I say good riddance.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“So don’t feed the nightmares. Don’t let yourself panic. Don’t give the Capitol that. They’ve taken enough already.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“But she was smarter than me, or luckier. She's the one who finally kept that sun from rising.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling
the truth. I don’t think this matters so long as
one knows what one is doing, and why.” — George Orwell”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“I run for Louella, but I run for Woodbine, too, because he’ll never run again.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“I love you like all-fire, too. You and no one else. Just like my geese, I mate for life. And then some. Forever.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“A world of words to wrap herself up in. Each book’s as precious as a person, she says, as it preserves someone’s thoughts and feelings long after they’re gone.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“She wasn’t one of Burdock’s Everdeen cousins, but I knew he had some distant ones on his ma’s side.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“She doesn’t belong to them,” snaps Maysilee. “Don’t just hand her over. Make them fight for her. Run!” So I do. And I’m a fast runner. The only kid who can beat me in footraces at school is Woodbine Chance. Well, he used to anyway. I run for Louella, but I run for Woodbine, too, because he’ll never run again.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping