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  • #1
    Lemony Snicket
    “The end of THE END is the best place to begin THE END, because if you read THE END from the beginning of the beginning of THE END to the end of the end of THE END, you will arrive at the end.”
    Lemony Snicket, The End

  • #2
    Lemony Snicket
    “Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.”
    Lemony Snicket, The End

  • #3
    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

  • #4
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #5
    J.K. Rowling
    “Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #6
    J.K. Rowling
    “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #7
    Ally Condie
    “Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”
    Ally Condie, Matched

  • #8
    Ally Condie
    “Once you want something, everything changes.”
    Ally Condie, Matched

  • #9
    Dr. Seuss
    “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #10
    Dr. Seuss
    “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
    Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

  • #11
    Dr. Seuss
    “A person's a person, no matter how small.”
    Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

  • #12
    Dr. Seuss
    “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
    Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
    Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

  • #14
    Ally Condie
    “But if you were Matched," I say softly, "What do you think she'd be like?"
    "You," he says, almost before I've finished. "You.”
    Ally Condie, Matched

  • #15
    Ally Condie
    “Cassia.
    I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it’s like the poem says. Maybe this is my way of not going gentle.
    I love you. (Ky Markham)”
    Ally Condie, Matched

  • #16
    Ally Condie
    “You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.”
    Ally Condie, Reached

  • #17
    Ally Condie
    “In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life.”
    Ally Condie, Reached

  • #18
    Ally Condie
    “I remember what Anna called the three of us.
    The Pilot. The Poet. The Physic.
    They are in all of us. I believe this. They every person might have a way to fly, a line of poetry to put down for others to see, a hand to heal.”
    ally condie, Reached

  • #19
    Ally Condie
    “There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.”
    Ally Condie, Reached

  • #20
    Suzanne Collins
    “You love me. Real or not real?"
    I tell him, "Real.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #21
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Life is a journey, not a destination.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #22
    A.J. Cronin
    “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
    A.J. Cronin

  • #23
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    “I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.”
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

  • #24
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    “A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner.”
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

  • #25
    A.A. Milne
    “Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh.
    "Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he.
    "Why, what's the matter?"
    "Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it."
    "Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose.
    "Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.”
    A. A. Milne



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