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  • #1
    Aldous Huxley
    “A man can smile and smile and be a villain.”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

  • #2
    Christelle Dabos
    “She kissed his scars, first the one cutting through his eyebrow, then the one cutting into his cheek, and finally the one cutting across his temple. With each contact, Thorn's eyes widened. His muscles, conversely, tightened.
    "Fifty-six." He cleared his throat to make his voice less hoarse. Ophelia had never seen him so intimidated, despite his efforts not to show it.
    "Thats the number of my scars."
    She closed and then reopened her eyes. She felt it again, even more violently, this urgent call from inside her. "Show them to me.”
    Christelle Dabos, La Mémoire de Babel

  • #3
    Christelle Dabos
    “Oh, and by the way, I love you.”
    Christelle Dabos, Les Disparus du Clairdelune

  • #4
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #5
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    Cicero

  • #6
    Aldous Huxley
    “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

  • #7
    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #8
    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #9
    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #10
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Touch it," Blue whispered. "See if it's alive, too."

    "One of you two Poverty Twins should touch it," Ronan said. "I touched the last one."

    "What did you just call me?”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

  • #11
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
    Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #12
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again."

    "This," Gansey replied "is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #13
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them.
    Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness.
    Her raven boys.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

  • #14
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #15
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “In his head, his mother said, 'People shout when they don’t have the vocabulary to whisper'.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #16
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “How do you feel about helicopters?"
    There was a long pause. "How do you mean? Ethically?"
    "As a mode of transportation."
    "Faster than camels, but less sustainable.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #17
    Voltaire
    “God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
    Voltaire

  • #18
    Voltaire
    “Common sense is not so common.”
    Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

  • #19
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
    some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
    some lose both and become accepted”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #20
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “If we go that way, it seems less like we’ll be shot for trespassing. We can’t be low profile because of your shirt.”
    “Aquamarine is a wonderful color, and I won’t be made to feel bad for wearing it,” Gansey said. But his voice was a bit thin, and he glanced back at the church again. Just then he looked younger than she’d ever seen him, his eyes narrowed, hair messed up, features unstudied. Young and, strangely enough, afraid.
    Blue thought: I can’t tell him. I can never tell him. I have to just try to stop it from happening.
    Then Gansey, suddenly charming again, flipped a hand in the direct of her purple tunic dress. “Lead the way, Eggplant.”
    She found a stick to poke at the ground for snakes before they set off through the grass. The wind smelled like rain, and the ground rumbled with thunder, but the weather held. The machine in Gansey’s hands blinked red constantly, only flickering to orange when they stepped too far away from the invisible line.
    “Thanks for coming, Jane,” Gansey said.
    Blue shot him a dirty look. “You’re welcome, Dick.
    He looked pained. “Please don’t.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #21
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “I thought I was hallucinating,” Adam said, next to the lockers, an announcement droning on over the hall speakers. “Ronan Lynch in the halls of Aglionby.”
    Ronan slammed his locker. He had not put anything in it and had no reason to open or close it, but he liked the satisfying bang of the metal down the hall, the way it drowned out the announcements. He did it again for good measure. “Is this a real conversation, Parrish?”
    Adam didn’t bother to reply. He merely exchanged three textbooks for his gym hoodie.
    Ronan wrenched his tie loose. “You working after school?”
    “With a dreamer.”
    He held Ronan’s gaze over his locker door.
    School had improved.
    Adam gently closed his locker. “I’m done at four thirty. If you’re up for brainstorming some repair of your dream forest. Unless you have homework.”
    “Asshole,” Ronan said.
    Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King



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