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    Louis Sachar
    “I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.”
    ― Louis Sachar
    tags: give-up, holes, life, sachar
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    Louis Sachar
    “Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.”
    ― Louis Sachar, Holes
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    Louis Sachar
    “There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.”
    ― Louis Sachar, Holes
    tags: first-lines, opening-lines
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    Louis Sachar
    “Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up.”
    ― Louis Sachar, Holes
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    Louis Sachar
    “You make the decision: Whom did God punish?”
    ― Louis Sachar, Holes
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    Louis Sachar
    “In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.”
    ― Louis Sachar, Holes
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    Louis Sachar
    “Each beat told him he was still alive, at least for one more second.”
    ― Louis Sachar, Holes
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    Louis Sachar
    “Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you wouldn't be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is?"
    "My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.”
    ― Louis Sachar, Holes
    tags: holes
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    Louis Sachar
    “He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.”
    ― Louis Sachar, Holes
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    Louis Sachar
    “When anything bad happens to me or someone I know, I always know who to blame. My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.”
    ― Louis Sachar
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    Louis Sachar
    “You have only one life, make the most of it”
    ― Louis Sachar, Holes
    tags: inspriational-thoughtful
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  • #12
    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity
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    Suzanne Collins
    “District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: young-adult-fiction
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    Lauren Oliver
    “I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
    tags: before-i-fall, young-adult-fiction
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    Lauren Oliver
    “Here's one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. It's like that old riddle about a tree falling in a forest, and whether it makes a sound if there's no one around to hear it.

    You keep drawing a line farther and farther away, crossing it every time. That's how people end up stepping off the edge of the earth. You'd be surprised at how easy it is to bust out of orbit, to spin out to a place where no one can touch you. To lose yourself--to get lost.

    Or maybe you wouldn't be surprised. Maybe some of you already know.

    To those people, I can only say: I'm sorry.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
    tags: before-i-fall, young-adult-fiction
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    Stephanie Perkins
    “Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
    tags: young-adult-fiction
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    Lauren Oliver
    “How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
    tags: before-i-fall, young-adult-fiction
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    Lauren Oliver
    “I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
    tags: before-i-fall, young-adult-fiction
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    Lauren Oliver
    “This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
    tags: before-i-fall, young-adult-fiction
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    Lauren Oliver
    “It's not my fault I can't be like you, okay? I don't get up in the morning thinking the world is one big, shiny, happy place, okay? That's just not how I work. I don't think I can be fixed.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
    tags: before-i-fall, young-adult-fiction
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    Jess C. Scott
    “A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”
    ― Jess C Scott
    tags: beauty, body, body-image, culture, dance, dancer, desire, fashion, fitness, food, food-for-thought, friendship, funny, girl, health, healthy, hip-hop, honesty, humor, humour, imagination, individuality, life, love, lust-for-life, music, novel, passion, reality, relationships, self, sex, truth, wisdom, young, young-adult, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-literature, young-adult-novels, young-adults, youth
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    Jess C. Scott
    “Please, touch me, I pray.”
    ― Jess C Scott, The Intern
    tags: desire, friendship, funny, girl, hip-hop, honesty, humor, humour, imagination, individuality, life, love, lust, lust-for-life, music, novel, passion, reality, relationships, romance, self, sex, truth, wisdom, young, young-adult, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-literature, young-adult-novels, young-adults
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    P.C. Cast
    “Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite”
    ― P.C. Cast
    tags: aphrodite, burned, house-of-night, humor, paranormal, vampire, young-adult-fiction
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  • #24
    Richelle Mead
    “This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did."
    I frowned, "What's that?"
    "Homework.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound
    tags: adrian, humor, rose, spirit-bound, vampire-academy, vampires, young-adult-fiction
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    Lauren Kate
    “Rule number 2 - don't listen to me!" Arriane laughed, "I'm certifiably insane!”
    ― Lauren Kate
    tags: arriane, fallen, humor, luce, young-adult-fiction
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    Rachel Vincent
    “Tod's pale brows arched halfway up his forehead, and he looked suddenly, achingly wistful. "She knows not what she says..."

    Maybe not. But I was starting to get a pretty good idea...”
    ― Rachel Vincent, If I Die
    tags: rachel-vincent, young-adult, young-adult-fiction
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.”
    ― laurie halse anderson, Speak
    tags: lauri-halse-anderson, speak, tree, young-adult-fiction
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  • #28
    “Even when the world throws it worst and then turns in its back, there is still always hope”
    ― Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six
    tags: science-fiction, young-adult-fiction
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    Suzanne Collins
    “But a shift has occurred since I stepped up to take Prim’s place, and now it seems I have become someone precious. At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me. It is an old and rarely used gesture of our district, occasionally seen at funerals. It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: young-adult-fiction
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  • #30
    “I was too proud to show him how hurt I was.”
    ― Kate Le Vann, Things I Know About Love
    tags: young-adult-fiction
    43 likes



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