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  • #1
    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

  • #2
    Anne Frank
    “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
    Anne Frank

  • #3
    Anne Frank
    “No one has ever become poor by giving.”
    Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play

  • #4
    Anne Frank
    “I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #5
    Rick Riordan
    “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

  • #6
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

  • #7
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle

  • #8
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You see, but you do not observe.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia

  • #9
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #12
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #13
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #14
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #15
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #16
    Ali Benjamin
    “It's peculiar how no-words can be better than words. Silence can say more than noise, in the same way that a person's absence can occupy even more space than their presence did.”
    Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish

  • #17
    Ali Benjamin
    “If people were silent, they could hear the noise of their own lives better. If people were silent, it would make what they did say, whenever they chose to say it, more important. If people were silent, they could read one another's signals, the way underwater creatures flash lights at one another, or turn their skin different colors.”
    Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish

  • #18
    Ali Benjamin
    “There’s no single right way to say goodbye to someone you love. But the most important thing is that you keep some part of them inside you.”
    Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish

  • #19
    Ali Benjamin
    “Who knows. Maybe everybody's end isn't the day they actually die, but the last time anyone speaks of them. Maybe when you die you don't really disappear, but you fade into a shadow, dark and featureless, only your outlines visible.”
    Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish

  • #20
    Ali Benjamin
    “That's what science is," she explained. "It's learning what others have discovered about the world, and then - when you bump up against a question that no one has ever answered before - figuring out how to get the answer you need.”
    Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish

  • #21
    Jennifer L. Holm
    “Life is precious and we don't realize that at the time.”
    Jennifer L. Holm, The Fourteenth Goldfish

  • #22
    Jennifer L. Holm
    “It’s the cycle of life,” I say, remembering Starlily’s words. “Things need to move forward, not backward.”
    Jennifer L. Holm, The Fourteenth Goldfish

  • #23
    Suzanne Collins
    “My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.”
    Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

  • #24
    Suzanne Collins
    “Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

  • #25
    Suzanne Collins
    “You’ve no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they’re not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn’t give you that right. Having more weapons doesn’t give you that right. Being from the Capitol doesn’t give you that right. Nothing does.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

  • #26
    Suzanne Collins
    “People aren’t so bad, really,” she said. “It’s what the world does to them.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

  • #27
    Suzanne Collins
    “I think there’s a natural goodness built into human beings. You know when you’ve stepped across the line into evil, and it’s your life’s challenge to try and stay on the right side of that line.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

  • #28
    Suzanne Collins
    “And try not to look down on people who had to choose between death and disgrace.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

  • #29
    Suzanne Collins
    “I’m planning to,” said Sejanus. “I’m planning to build a whole new beautiful life here. One where, in my own small way, I can make the world a better place.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

  • #30
    Suzanne Collins
    “She could fly around District 12 all she liked, but she and her mockingjays could never harm him again.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes



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