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#1

“What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

tags: black-lives-matter, racism

1674 likes

#2

“Once upon a time there was a hazel-eyed boy with dimples. I called him Khalil. The world called him a thug.
He lived, but not nearly long enough, and for the rest of my life I'll remember how he died.
Fairy tale? No. But I'm not giving up on a better ending.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

367 likes

#3

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: writing

3050 likes

#5

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe

62121 likes

#6

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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#7

“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

22054 likes

#8

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: writing

6452 likes

#9

“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

2875 likes

#10

“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
― Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993

tags: story, writing

1767 likes

#11

“Parenting is hard, cuz. You gon’ break sometimes. The most important thing is that you pull yourself together and go back,”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

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#12

“That’s Ma for you. Granny say she came in the world ready for whatever. When things fall apart, she quick to grab the pieces and make something new outta them.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

tags: moms, resilience-quotes, when-life-gives-you-lemons

8 likes

#13

“The world got some nerve going on without him. People laughing and dreaming when Dre can't.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

19 likes

#14

“Keep Pushing Mav," Rico Says ," Tough situations don't last. Tough People Do.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

24 likes

#15

“You gotta love people enough to let them go, especially when you're the reason they're gone.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

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#16

“I'm tired of hearing about all these fucked-up white people who did a bunch of fucked-up stuff, yet people wanna call them heroes”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

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#17

“Son, one of the biggest lies ever told is that black men don't feel emotions. Guess it's easier not to see us as human when you think we're heartless. Fact of the matter is, we feel things. Hurt, pain, sadness, all of it. We got a right to show them feelings as much as anybody else.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

38 likes

#18

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
― S.E. Hinton

tags: friends, friendship

4305 likes

#19

“Say it, America. Please. Tell me you love me, that you want to be mine alone.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

tags: america-singer, fantasy, love, maxon-schreave, romance, royalty, young-adult

21 likes

#20

“Jameson had a habit of tossing out words that should matter like they didn't at all.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

65 likes

#21

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: infinity

17538 likes

#22

“Oh, we're playing nice now? Shall we have tea first? Brew up a nice pot of kiss-my-ass?”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King

2457 likes

#23

“Getting involved with Jameson would just be throwing gasoline on the fire." "And what a lovely fire it would be,”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

tags: fire-and-blood, love

164 likes

#24

“It would be shame," Jameson commented, "if we were related.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

tags: humor, love, romantic

155 likes

#25

“Why do I have to tell a story?" I asked.
"Because if you don't tell the story, someone else will tell it for you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

tags: inspirational-attitude

22 likes

#26

“Who can sleep when we've got Trish the fuckin' bulldozer with us?”
― Simone Elkeles, Return to Paradise

tags: lenny

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#27

“It's dope to be black until it's hard to be black.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

331 likes

#28

“Be roses that grow in the concrete.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

203 likes

#29

“she talked about books with so much of a passion that you wanted to be nothing but the character she had so insanely fallen in love with.”
― Sneha Dhope

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#30

“I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

tags: books, escape, stories

653 likes

#31

“You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

tags: human, life, living, pain

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