2026 Reading Challenge

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  • #1
    Bill Watterson
    “Some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help." Calvin and Hobbes”
    ― Bill Watterson
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  • #2
    Banksy
    “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
    ― Banksy
    tags: art, truth
    800 likes

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  • #3
    Martha Wells
    “I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can't just stop.”
    ― Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol
    tags: caring-for-others, murderbot
    131 likes

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  • #4
    Martha Wells
    “It could be one more weird anomaly in this unending cycle of what the fuck.”
    ― Martha Wells, Network Effect
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  • #5
    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
    17574 likes

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  • #6
    Jean Rhys
    “Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.”
    ― Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
    235 likes

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  • #7
    Anaïs Nin
    “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: death, love
    22135 likes

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  • #8
    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
    10542 likes

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  • #9
    “Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”
    ― Lady Gaga
    tags: love, romance, work
    9661 likes

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  • #10
    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
    26910 likes

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  • #11
    Gabrielle Estres
    “We create our own hell, it is the sum of all our decisions - we are not sentenced, we condemn ourselves.”
    ― Gabrielle Estres, Captive
    tags: dark-fiction, dark-romance, darkness-and-light, devil, hell, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, life, lucifer, romance
    25 likes

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  • #12
    T. Kingfisher
    “Competence is its own punishment.”
    ― T Kingfisher
    tags: competence
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  • #13
    Michelle Obama
    “If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.”
    ― Michelle Obama, Becoming
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  • #14
    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: friendship
    24413 likes

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  • #15
    John Scheck
    “Either lead, follow, or sit down and have a glass of wine with one of these dates wrapped in bacon. Delicious!”
    ― John Scheck, Nothing Personal
    tags: humor
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  • #16
    Winston S. Churchill
    “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting
    1655 likes

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  • #17
    Drew Carey
    “Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?
    There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.”
    ― Drew Carey
    tags: drinking, humor, jobs, life
    435 likes

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  • #19
    Isaac Asimov
    “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance
    2450 likes

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  • #20
    T. Kingfisher
    “If we limited loving to just the sane, undamaged people, the next generation would have about three people in it and presumably humanity would die out shortly afterward.”
    ― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Grace
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  • #20
    T. Kingfisher
    “All women are beautiful,” said Istvhan, dismissing this. “It is the job of their lovers to make them feel that way if they do not already.”
    ― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Grace
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  • #21
    Bruce Lee
    “It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: inspirational, motivation, priorities, simplicity, wisdom
    591 likes

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  • #22
    Terry Pratchett
    “Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play
    tags: paraphrased
    479 likes

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  • #23
    Edward Hallett Carr
    “Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.”
    ― Edward Hallett Carr, What Is History?
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  • #24
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
    25521 likes

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  • #25
    Tana French
    “I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.”
    ― Tana French, Faithful Place
    613 likes

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  • #26
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You
    tags: bibliotherapy, books, escape, good-habits, life, pleasure, reading, refuge
    2256 likes

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  • #27
    Brandon Sanderson
    “It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension
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  • #28
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
    tags: love
    6641 likes

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  • #29
    M.L. Wang
    “It’s much easier to tell yourself you’re a good person than it is to actually be one.”
    ― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven
    122 likes



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