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  • #1
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #2
    Stephenie Meyer
    “He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
    Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

  • #3
    J.K. Rowling
    “Did you know— then?” asked Harry.
    “Did I know that I had just met the most dangerous Dark wizard of all time? No.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  • #4
    David Farland
    “There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.”
    David Farland, The Wizard of Ooze

  • #5
    Neil Gaiman
    “How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline.
    "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave."
    "Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline.
    "Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #6
    Neil Gaiman
    “CORALINE'S STORY
    THERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #7
    Neil Gaiman
    “I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #8
    Neil Gaiman
    “For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a cup of weak tea. The limeade was very interesting. It didn't taste anything like limes. It tasted bright green and vaguely chemical. Coraline liked it enormously. She wished they had it at home.

    "How are your dear mother and father?" asked Miss Spink.

    "Missing," said Coraline. "I haven't seen either of them since yesterday. I'm on my own. I think I've probably become a single child family.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #9
    Gail Carson Levine
    “Step follows step,
    Hope follows Courage,
    Set your face towards danger,
    Set your heart on victory.”
    Gail Carson Levine, The Two Princesses of Bamarre

  • #10
    Gail Carson Levine
    “Fate...may...be...thwarted.”
    Gail Carson Levine, Ever

  • #11
    Gail Carson Levine
    “He -it- was a specter! I stepped back, stunned. ”
    Gail Carson Levine, The Two Princesses of Bamarre

  • #12
    Gail Carson Levine
    “Drualt took Freya's warm hand,
    Her strong hand,
    Her sword hand,
    And pressed it to his lips,
    Pressed it to his heart.
    Come with me,' he said.
    Come with me to battle,
    My love. Tarry at my side.
    Stay with me
    When battle is done.
    Tarry at my side.
    Laugh with me,
    And walk with me
    The long, long way.
    Tarry with me,
    My love, at my side.”
    Gail Carson Levine, The Two Princesses of Bamarre
    tags: love

  • #13
    Gail Carson Levine
    “A library is infinity under a roof.”
    Gail Carson Levine

  • #14
    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

  • #15
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #16
    Neil Gaiman
    “I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #17
    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

  • #18
    Neil Gaiman
    “Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #19
    Shannon Hale
    “You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.”
    Shannon Hale

  • #20
    Shannon Hale
    “I was under the stars, like a fish is under water.”
    Shannon Hale

  • #21
    Shannon Hale
    “What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was.
    It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.”
    Shannon Hale

  • #22
    Shannon Hale
    “I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.”
    Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

  • #23
    Shannon Hale
    “. . . as long as there are movement and harmony, there are words.”
    Shannon Hale

  • #24
    Shannon Hale
    “My friends call me by my name."
    "You don't have any friends."
    "I don't want you to be my friend, Selia, or my servant, not now. I thought you were both. You have let me know I was wrong. So are you to treat me so. You are wrong.”
    Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl

  • #25
    Shannon Hale
    “The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper.”
    Shannon Hale

  • #26
    Shannon Hale
    “She put a wedge beside my heart
    And then she brought the mallet down
    She sang no song to guide her work
    I lost my heart without a sound”
    Shannon Hale

  • #27
    Shannon Hale
    “WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: RAPUNZEL
    For horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended!
    REWARD”
    Shannon Hale, Rapunzel's Revenge

  • #28
    Sharon Creech
    “Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.”
    Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

  • #29
    Sharon Creech
    “...but it doesn't feel crazy to us.
    It feels like what we do.”
    Sharon Creech, Heartbeat

  • #30
    Sharon Creech
    “Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?”
    Sharon Creech, Chasing Redbird



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