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“Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

“The ownership of land is an odd thing when you come to think of it. How deep, after all, can it go? If a person owns a piece of land, does he own it all the way down, in ever narrowing dimensions, till it meets all other pieces at the center of the earth? Or does ownership consist only of a thin crust under which the friendly worms have never heard of trespassing?”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“My eyes smarted with the cold . I held my free hand out, palm up, and watched as snow dissolved on my skin. This was not real life. This was life as watched through a window. Life watched on television. I couldn’t remember when I hadn’t hidden from this. I was cold, I had a handful of snow, and I was human. The future stretched before me, infinite and growing and mine, in a way that nothing had ever been before. Sudden euphoria rushed through me, a grin stretching my face at this cosmic lottery I had won. I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was, of the world and in it.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“Overhead, the stars were wheeling and infinite, a complicated mobile made by giants.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“People don't change who they are. They only change what they do with it.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“Maybe that was why most of the girls I knew were miserable. We prioritized everyone else’s happiness over our own.”
― Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, The Girls Are All So Nice Here

“Nature is bloody, and as a whole, it favors strength over compassion.”
― Veronica Roth, Chosen Ones

“The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember

“Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage;
If I have freedom in my love
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone, that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.”
― Richard Lovelace, To Althea, from Prison

“It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.”
― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

“You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.”
― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

“It was Leslie who had taken him from the cow pasture into Terabithia and turned him into a king. He had thought that was it. Wasn't king the best you could be? Now it occurred to him that perhaps Terabithia was like a castle where you came to be knighted. After you stayed for a while and grew strong you had to move on. For hadn't Leslie, even in Terabithia, tried to push back the walls of his mind and make him see beyond to the shining world—huge and terrible and beautiful and very fragile? (Handle with care—everything—even the predators.)

Now it was time for him to move out. She wasn't there, so he must go for both of them. It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.

As for the terrors ahead—for he did not fool himself that they were all behind him—well, you just have to stand up to your fear and not let it squeeze you white. Right, Leslie?

Right.”
― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

“Fight until you can’t breathe, & if you have to forfeit, you forfeit smiling, make them think you let them win.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“You do not let your words stunt unknown possibilities.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“So he created a theater of his life / & got lost in all the different roles he had to play.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“We all use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green

“When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.”
― John Green

“How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“My world is the heavens, both by day and by night.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“It is easier to be hated
than to face not being loved
Easier to be angry
than accept sadness”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“Anomie is the condition of our time. We are poisoned by images, an endless sinister fallout of metaphors, full of purpose but devoid of meaning. Like any addict our means of escape is our prison; the remedy is, in fact, a deadly numbing toxin. When the time comes to feel we have lost the neural pathway. Things touch us without our knowing.”
― William Wall, Grace's Day

“The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

“They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

“All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

“For all find what they truly seek.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

“Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

“And of course it is different; as different as a real thing is from a shadow or as waking life is from a dream.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

“That I know not, Lord King,” said the Centaur. “But I know there are liars on earth; there are none among the stars.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)