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  • #1
    Leigh Bardugo
    “When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #2
    Leigh Bardugo
    “The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #3
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #4
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I have this idea that the reason we have dreams is that we're thinking about things that we don't know we're thinking about-and those things, well, they sneak out of us in our dreams. Maybe we're like tires with too much air in them. The air has to leak out. That's what dreams are.”
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

  • #5
    Neil Gaiman
    “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

  • #6
    Markus Zusak
    “Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #7
    Markus Zusak
    “A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #8
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.”
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

  • #9
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “We all fight our own private wars.”
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

  • #10
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.”
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

  • #11
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #12
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #13
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • #14
    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    Carl Sagan

  • #15
    Markus Zusak
    “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #16
    Anthony Doerr
    “All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?”
    Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

  • #17
    Neal Shusterman
    “And when the abyss looks into you - and it will - may you look back unflinching.”
    Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

  • #18
    Neal Shusterman
    “You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours.”
    Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

  • #19
    Anthony Doerr
    “what's so beautiful about a fool is that a fool never knows when to give up”
    Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

  • #20
    Wallace Stegner
    “It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.”
    Wallace Stegner

  • #21
    Vincent van Gogh
    “A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
    Vincent Van Gogh

  • #22
    Vincent van Gogh
    “The sadness will last forever.”
    Vincent van Gogh

  • #23
    Vincent van Gogh
    “I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly'.”
    Vincent Willem van Gogh

  • #24
    Vincent van Gogh
    “The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
    Vincent Van Gogh

  • #25
    Vincent van Gogh
    “La tristesse durera toujours.
    [The sadness will last forever.]”
    Vincent van Gogh

  • #26
    John Steinbeck
    “Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #27
    John Steinbeck
    “And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #28
    Franz Kafka
    “I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
    Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

  • #29
    Franz Kafka
    “The meaning of life is that it stops.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #30
    Franz Kafka
    “A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
    Franz Kafka



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