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#1

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: books, power-of-words, reading

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#2

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#3

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: compassion, life, suffering

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#4

“Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

tags: birth, death, j-k-rowling, the-casual-vacancy

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#5

“Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: j-k-rowling

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#6

“There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: harper-lee, to-kill-a-mockingbird

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#7

“But things are always better in the morning.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: harper-lee, to-kill-a-mockingbird

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#8

“Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between.”
― Harper Lee

tags: death, harper, harper-lee, lee, neighbors, sickness, to-kill-a-mockingbird

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#9

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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#10

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

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#11

“I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts -Leo Valdez”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

tags: leo-valdez, rick-riordan, the-mark-of-athena

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#12

“Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important.'
It was probably important to her.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

tags: percy-jackson, rick-riordan, sea-of-monsters

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#13

“Stay with me.

Always.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

tags: hunger-games, katniss, mockingjay, peeta, romance

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#14

“Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours," I say.

"For what? Nothing's going on here," he says. "Besides, I like watching you sleep. You don't scowl. Improves your looks a lot."

This, of course, brings on a scowl that makes him grin.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: hunger-games, katniss-everdeen, peeta-mellark

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#15

“My spirit. This is a new thought. I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I'm a fighter. In a sort of brave way. It's not as if I'm never friendly. Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but i do care for some people.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: care, friendly, hunger-games, katniss-everdeen, smile, spirit, suzanne-collins, thought

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#16

“There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

tags: mortal-instruments, romance, teen-fantasy

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#17

“What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there.
"It's a girl," Jace said,recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

tags: humor, jace, love, mortal-instruments

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#18

“Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.”
― Cassandra Clare

tags: jace, mortal-instruments

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#19

“I don't care," Clary said. "He'd do it for me. Tell me he wouldn't. If I were missing-"
"He'd burn the whole world down till he could dig you out of the ashes. I know," Alec said.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls

tags: alec-lightwood, chapter-one, city-of-lost-souls, clary-fray, jace, mortal-instruments

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#20

“It's the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl.”
― Cassandra Clare

tags: city-of-bones, mortal-instruments

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#21

“Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

tags: lying, mortal-instruments

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#22

“If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

tags: jocelyn-fray, mortal-instruments, pg-441

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#23

“If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

tags: cassandra-clare, god, jace-wayland, life, mortal-instruments

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#24

“He must have known I'd want to leave you."
"No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: dumbledore, friendship, harry-potter, ron-weasley

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#25

“Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
"Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

tags: city-of-bones, jace

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#26

“Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

tags: clary, jace, sarcasm

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#27

“Is there some particular reason that you're here?" ...
"Not this again."
"Not what again?" said Clary.
"Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house." Simon pointed at Jace.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

tags: clary-fray, jace, mundane, simon

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#28

“How awfully convenient for you, regardless. And for him. He won't have to worry about you spilling his secrets."
"Yeah," Jace said. "He's terrified I'll tell everyone that he's always wanted to be a ballerina.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

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#29

“And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

tags: clary, clary-and-jace, humor, jace, jace-and-clary, love

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