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  • #1
    Alice Oseman
    “Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important.”
    Alice Oseman, Loveless

  • #2
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #3
    Rainbow Rowell
    “You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #4
    Rainbow Rowell
    “What you are is a fucking tragedy, Simon Snow. You literally couldn't be a bigger mess."
    He tries to kiss me, but I pull back- "And you like that?"
    "I love it." He says
    "Why?"
    "Because we match.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #5
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Sharing a room with the person you want most is like sharing a room with an open fire.

    He's constantly drawing you in. And you're constantly stepping too close. And you know it's not good--that there is no good--that there's absolutely nothing that can ever come of it.

    But you do it anyway.
    And then...
    Well. Then you burn.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #6
    Rainbow Rowell
    “You were the sun, and I was crashing into you. I'd wake up every morning and think, 'This will end in flames.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #7
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Just when you think you're having a scene without Simon, he drops in to remind you that everyone else is a supporting character in his catastrophe.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #8
    Rainbow Rowell
    “He's still looking in my eyes. Staring me down like he did that dragon, chin tilted and locked. "I'm not the Chosen One," he says.
    I meet his gaze and sneer. My arm is a steel band around his waist. "I choose you," I say. "Simon Snow, I choose you.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #9
    Rainbow Rowell
    “The front seat is for people who've never been kidnapped by bloody numpties. Jesus Christ, Baz.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #10
    Ransom Riggs
    “It had become one of the defining truths of my life that, no matter how I tried to keep them flattened, two-dimensional, jailed in paper and ink, there would always be stories that refused to stay bound inside books. It was never just a story. I would know: a story had swallowed my whole life.”
    Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

  • #11
    Ransom Riggs
    “What a beautiful day to go to hell”
    Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

  • #12
    Ransom Riggs
    “Maybe lots of people go through life never knowing they’re peculiar.”
    Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

  • #13
    Ransom Riggs
    “These strange-looking people weren’t peculiars. They were nerds. We were very much in the present.”
    Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

  • #14
    Lemony Snicket
    “There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

  • #15
    Ransom Riggs
    “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #16
    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #17
    J.K. Rowling
    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #18
    J.K. Rowling
    “You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style...”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #19
    J.K. Rowling
    “Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #20
    J.K. Rowling
    “He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through."
    "How very rude of him."
    "I told him I was."
    Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady.
    "I am very touched, Harry.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  • #21
    J.K. Rowling
    “Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #22
    Holly  Jackson
    “The people you love weren’t algebra: to be calculated, subtracted, or held at arm’s length across a decimal point.”
    Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

  • #23
    Holly  Jackson
    “As if they think I don’t already know. I came out of the womb knowing how to do academic references.”
    Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

  • #24
    J.K. Rowling
    “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #25
    J.K. Rowling
    “Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?"
    "Yes."
    "You called her a liar?"
    "Yes."
    "You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?"
    "Yes."
    "Have a biscuit, Potter.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #26
    J.K. Rowling
    “You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!"
    "What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #27
    J.K. Rowling
    “Give her hell from us, Peeves.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #28
    J.K. Rowling
    “But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #29
    J.K. Rowling
    “Don’t put your wand there, boy!” roared Moody. “What if it ignited? Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!” “Who d’you know who’s lost a buttock?” the violet-haired woman asked Mad-Eye interestedly. “Never you mind, you just keep your wand out of your back pocket!” growled Mad-Eye. “Elementary wand safety, nobody bothers about it anymore . . .” He stumped off toward the kitchen. “And I saw that,” he added irritably, as the woman rolled her eyes at the ceiling.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #30
    Stephen  King
    “Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft



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