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  • #1
    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #2
    John Green
    “So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #3
    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #4
    John Green
    “I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #5
    John Green
    “When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #6
    Scott Westerfeld
    “And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.”
    Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan

  • #7
    Scott Westerfeld
    “Barking spiders!”
    Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan

  • #8
    Scott Westerfeld
    “Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.”
    Scott Westerfeld, Goliath

  • #9
    Scott Westerfeld
    “Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'."
    "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled.
    "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.”
    Scott Westerfeld, Goliath

  • #10
    Scott Westerfeld
    “Alek was right behind her now, his body pressing close as he adjusted her sword arm. She hadn't realized this fencing business would be so touchy.

    He grasped her waist, sending a crackle across her skin.

    If Alek moved his hands any higher, he might notice what was hidden beneath her careful tailoring.

    “Always keep sideways to your opponent,” he said, gently turning her. “That way, your chest presents the smallest possible target.”

    “Aye, the smallest possible target,” Deryn sighed. Her secret was safe, it seemed.”
    Scott Westerfeld, Behemoth

  • #11
    Robert Frost
    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
    Robert Frost

  • #12
    Jess C. Scott
    “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
    Jess C. Scott, The Intern

  • #13
    “I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said.
    "It would look stunning, My Lady," she called.
    She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.”
    Kristin Cashore, Graceling

  • #14
    John Green
    “You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
    John Green

  • #15
    John Green
    “Well, while you were in the bathroom, I sat down at this picnic table here in Bumblefug, Kentucky, and noticed that someone had carved that GOD HATES FAG, which, aside from being a grammatical nightmare, is absolutely ridiculous. So I'm changing it to 'God Hates Baguettes.' It's tough to disagree with that. Everybody hates baguettes.”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #16
    Jet Mykles
    “Straight? So is spaghetti until you heat it up”
    Jet Mykles, Squire

  • #17
    T.S. Eliot
    “This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #18
    Cassandra Clare
    “You're not gay, are you?"
    Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #19
    Paul Monette
    “Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.”
    Paul Monette

  • #20
    Mary Griffith
    “Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember...a child is listening.”
    Mary Griffith

  • #21
    Holly Black
    “Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.”
    Holly Black, Tithe

  • #22
    Kelly Link
    “The zombies were like Canadians, in that they looked enough like real people at first, to fool you.”
    Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners

  • #23
    Kelly Link
    “Because love isn’t just love. It’s all the other stuff, too.”
    Kelly Link, Get in Trouble: Stories

  • #24
    Karen Russell
    “My mom says I'm destined to be the sort of man who uses big words but pronounces them incorrectly.”
    Karen Russell (Author), St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories

  • #25
    Karen Russell
    “It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.”
    Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

  • #26
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

  • #27
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

  • #28
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

  • #29
    Carol Rifka Brunt
    “That's the secret. If you always make sure you're exactly the person you hoped to be, if you always make sure you know only the very best people, then you won't care if you die tomorrow.”
    Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

  • #30
    Carol Rifka Brunt
    “Sometimes it feels good to take the long way home.”
    Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home



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