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#1

“My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: humor, humour, lying, salvation

#2

“I feel ill,” he announced. “I’m going to bed, where I may die.” He tottered piteously to the stairs. “Bury me beside Mrs. Pentstemmon,” he croaked as he went up then to bed.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: cold, howl-s-moving-castle

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#3

“I shall die and then you'll all be sorry.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

tags: howl

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#5

“My word, he's ugly!' Howl said. 'Chip off the old block.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

tags: baby, dad, father, infant, mean, newborn, rude

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#6

“Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: hair-drama, humor, vanity

202 likes

#7

“We can’t all be Mad Hatters,”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

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#8

“Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy?” Howl asked. “Make toast!?”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

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#9

“A heart’s a heavy burden”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

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#10

“I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, stephen-chbosky, the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower

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#11

“You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.”
― Stephen Chbosky

tags: the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower

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#12

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: change, life

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#13

“We Are All Infinite”
― Stephen Chobosky

tags: the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower

117 likes

#14

“I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower

112 likes

#15

“Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Goliath

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#16

“Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Goliath

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#17

“To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Goliath

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#18

“Barking hard work, being a boy.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan

tags: being-boy, hard-work

70 likes

#19

“Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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#20

“The child is right," she announced firmly.
Arrietty's eyes grew big. "Oh, no-" she began. It shocked her to be right. Parents were right, not children. Children could say anything, Arrietty knew, and enjoy saying it-knowing always they were safe and wrong.”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers

tags: childhood-trauma, family, family-relationships

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#21

“And what if it were only a story?” said Mrs. May quickly, “so long as it was a good story? Keep your sense of wonder, child, and don’t be so literal. Anything we haven’t experienced for ourselves sounds like a story. All we can ever do is sift the evidence.”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers

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#22

“Here she was on the other side of the grating—here she was at last, on the outside—looking in!”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers

tags: accomplish, accomplishment, accomplishments, adventure, adventures, fantasy, fantasy-fiction, hope

14 likes

#23

“Americans, while willing, even eager, to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”
― Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: american, americans, culture, history, society, work

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