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“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Dreams are always crushing when they don't come true. But it's the simple dreams that are often the most painful because they seem so personal, so reasonable, so attainable. You're always close enough to touch, but never quite close enough to hold and it's enough to break your heart.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Three Weeks with My Brother

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”
― Albert Einstein

“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
― Albert Einstein

“The past is never where you think you left it.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

“It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn

“District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
― Eleanor Hodgman Porter

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
― Aldous Huxley

“I don't go out with strangers," I said.

"Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

“He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.

She was the book thief without the words.

Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”
― Cheris Kramarae

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
― Emily Dickinson

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
― Maya Angelou

“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

“If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.”
― Johnny Depp

“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
― Mark Twain

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”
― Adolf Hitler

“You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?"
"Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily.
"Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!"
I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

“I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“No good deed goes unpunished.”
― Oscar Wilde