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  • #1
    It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
    “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #2
    Nicolas Chamfort
    “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
    Nicolas Chamfort

  • #3
    E.E. Cummings
    “The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”
    e. e. cummings

  • #4
    E.E. Cummings
    “listen: there’s a hell
    of a good universe next door; let’s go”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #5
    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    Terry Pratchett, Jingo

  • #6
    Terry Pratchett
    “In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #7
    Terry Pratchett
    “It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #8
    Terry Pratchett
    “Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #9
    John Connolly
    “For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.”
    John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

  • #10
    John Connolly
    “I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.”
    John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

  • #11
    John Connolly
    “Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.”
    John Connolly, Nocturnes

  • #12
    John Connolly
    “Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, books had no real existence in our world. Like seeds in the beak of a bird waiting to fall to earth, or the notes of a song laid out on a sheet, yearning for an instrument to bring their music into being. they lie dormant hoping for the chance to emerge.They want us to give them life.”
    John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

  • #13
    Veronica Roth
    “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #14
    Tamora Pierce
    “You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him."
    "So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”
    Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess

  • #15
    Tamora Pierce
    “Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
    Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones

  • #16
    Tamora Pierce
    “You look as scary as a buttered muffin.”
    Tamora Pierce

  • #17
    Suzanne Collins
    “You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #18
    Cory Doctorow
    “When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.”
    Cory Doctorow

  • #19
    Cory Doctorow
    “We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books we inherit from our parents, and we cherish the idea of passing those books on to our children. Indeed, how many of us started reading with a beloved book that belonged to one of our parents? We force worthy books on our friends, and we insist that they read them. We even feel a weird kinship for the people we see on buses or airplanes reading our books, the books that we claim. If anyone tries to take away our books—some oppressive government, some censor gone off the rails—we would defend them with everything that we have. We know our tribespeople when we visit their homes because every wall is lined with books. There are teetering piles of books beside the bed and on the floor; there are masses of swollen paperbacks in the bathroom. Our books are us. They are our outboard memory banks and they contain the moral, intellectual, and imaginative influences that make us the people we are today.”
    Cory Doctorow

  • #20
    Joanne Harris
    “Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”
    Joanne Harris, Chocolat

  • #21
    Joanne Harris
    “I'd rather be a freak than a clone.”
    Joanne Harris

  • #22
    Gertrude Stein
    “You look ridiculous if you dance
    You look ridiculous if you don't dance
    So you might as well
    dance.”
    Gertrude Stein, Three Lives

  • #23
    Gertrude Stein
    “We are always the same age inside. ”
    Gertrude Stein

  • #24
    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

  • #25
    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #26
    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

  • #27
    Lemony Snicket
    “If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

  • #28
    Lemony Snicket
    “I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

  • #29
    Lemony Snicket
    “All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #30
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto



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