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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, writing
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing
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    John Green
    “You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person and why.”
    ― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
    tags: first-love, love
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: leigh-bardugo, six-of-crows
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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  • #9
    Sarah J. Maas
    “To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
    Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
    tags: a-court-of-mist-and-fury, acomaf, feyre, rhysand
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    Susan Ee
    “I never kid about my warrior demigod status."
    "Oh. My. God." I lower my voice, having forgotten to whisper. "You are nothing but a bird with an attitude. Okay, so you have a few muscles, I’ll grant you that. But you know, a bird is nothing but a barely evolved lizard. That’s what you are.”
    ― Susan Ee, Angelfall
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    Susan Ee
    “Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good.”
    ― Susan Ee, Angelfall
    tags: angelfall, inspirational, susan-ee
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    Holly Black
    “If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
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  • #13
    Victoria Aveyard
    “The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.”
    ― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
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    Victoria Aveyard
    “Anyone can betray anyone.”
    ― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
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    Alexandra Bracken
    “We'll just have to try to make better mistakes tomorrow.”
    ― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds
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    Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    “We aren’t normal. This place isn’t normal, and you’re not a player, kid. You’re the glass ballerina—or the knife.”
    ― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games
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    Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    “He left you the fortune, Avery, and all he left us is you.”
    ― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games
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  • #18
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    “If yes is no and once is never, then how many sides does a triangle have?”
    ― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games
    tags: riddles
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    Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    “Nothing is certain but death and taxes.”
    ― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games
    tags: certain, death, life, taxes
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  • #20
    Shel Silverstein
    “And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.”
    ― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
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    S.E. Hinton
    “Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: class-division, geography, sun, sunset
    512 likes

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  • #22
    S.E. Hinton
    “Things are rough all over.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: truths
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  • #23
    Cassandra Clare
    “The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: city-of-bones, jace-wayland
    7686 likes

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  • #24
    Lewis Carroll
    “She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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    Lewis Carroll
    “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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    Lewis Carroll
    “I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Curiouser and curiouser.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: children-s-lit, favorites, humor
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  • #28
    Suzanne Collins
    “You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: the-hunger-games
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  • #29
    Scott Westerfeld
    “When she awoke, the world was on fire.”
    ― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
    tags: awoke, fire, shay, tally, traveling, uglies, ugly, world
    488 likes

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  • #30
    Lorraine Hansberry
    “Seem like God didn't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams -but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while.”
    ― Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
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