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    Rick Riordan
    “Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: fate, future, knowledge
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    Rick Riordan
    “It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
    tags: enjoy, humor, joke, prank
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    Rick Riordan
    “Humans see what they want to see.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: humanity, humans, mankind, perception, self-delusion, willful-ignorance
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    Rick Riordan
    “The real world is where the monsters are.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: monsters, reality, world
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    Rick Riordan
    “Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: glory
    1880 likes

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  • #6
    Rick Riordan
    “Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
    tags: inspirational, wits
    1212 likes

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  • #7
    Neal Shusterman
    “Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Unwind
    986 likes

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    Neal Shusterman
    “That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Unwind
    tags: hayden
    170 likes

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  • #9
    Suzanne Collins
    “I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
    3146 likes

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    Suzanne Collins
    “I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it...”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
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    Suzanne Collins
    “It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
    tags: public-opinion
    1032 likes

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    Suzanne Collins
    “Tick, tock.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
    tags: onomatopoeia
    926 likes

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  • #13
    Suzanne Collins
    “I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
    879 likes

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    Suzanne Collins
    “You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
    tags: catching-fire, greasy-sae, suzanne-collins, the-hunger-games
    483 likes

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  • #15
    Sarah Dessen
    “There were lots of ways to love someone, I guessed, both by remembering and forgetting.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Rest of the Story
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    Sarah Dessen
    “After loving someone you couldn't depend on, you realize how important it is to trust someone will do what they say.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Rest of the Story
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  • #17
    Kristen Simmons
    “Once he'd been an open book and the days had been too short to hold all our words.”
    ― Kristen Simmons, Article 5
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  • #18
    Kristen Simmons
    “Losing your family... it puts fear in a different perspective, Chase had once told me.”
    ― Kristen Simmons, Article 5
    tags: family, laine-s-fave
    16 likes

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    Marie Lu
    “Embellish your flaws. They will turn into your assets.”
    ― Marie Lu, The Young Elites
    330 likes

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  • #20
    Marie Lu
    “Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.”
    ― Marie Lu, The Young Elites
    1101 likes

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    Marie Lu
    “Sorry, always sorry. What in the world can you buy with an apology?”
    ― Marie Lu, The Young Elites
    tags: apology, reflection
    283 likes

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  • #22
    Marie Lu
    “It is better to have an enemy who will fight you in an open field then a lover who will kill you in your sleep.”
    ― Marie Lu, The Rose Society
    tags: love, marie-lu
    197 likes

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  • #23
    Marie Lu
    “Why feel guilty for something that isn't your fault?
    Because I loved him. And now he is gone.”
    ― Marie Lu, The Rose Society
    tags: adelina-amouteru, marie-lu, the-rose-society
    95 likes

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    Marie Lu
    “I looked into those eyes and I saw nothing. It was like staring straight into the Underworld. Like he aches to return to where he came from.”
    ― Marie Lu, The Rose Society
    tags: abyss, darkness, underworld
    36 likes

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  • #25
    Alexandra Christo
    “There is nothing in the world but pain and the rare moments that exist in between”
    ― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom
    tags: lira, sirens, to-kill-a-kingdom
    16 likes

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    Alexandra Christo
    “They’re from everywhere and their homes are nowhere.”
    ― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom
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  • #27
    Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
    “Fear and what you did with it were two separate things.”
    ― Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War I Finally Won
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    Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
    “I don't want to just survive”
    ― Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life
    tags: inspirational, middle-grade
    15 likes

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  • #29
    Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
    “One step, I thought. One step at a time.”
    ― Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life
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  • #30
    Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
    “My own ignorance shames me.”
    ― Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War I Finally Won
    2 likes



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