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  • #1
    Suzanne Collins
    “You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers.
    "Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #2
    Suzanne Collins
    “And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don't want him to die. And it's not about the sponsors. And it's not about what will happen when we get home. And it's not just that I don't want to be alone. It's him. I do not want to lose the boy with the bread.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #3
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Wait for a time, exactly under the star. Then, if a little man appears who laughs, who has golden hair and refuses to answer questions, you will know who he is, If this should happen, please comfort me. Send me word that he has come back.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #4
    Lord Byron
    “In secret we met
    In silence I grieve,
    That thy heart could forget,
    Thy spirit deceive.”
    George Gordon Byron

  • #5
    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #6
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #8
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #9
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    Suzanne Collins
    “I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #12
    Suzanne Collins
    “Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say.

    “I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,” he says.

    “You should wake me,” I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down.

    “It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.”
    Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

  • #13
    Suzanne Collins
    “Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #14
    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #15
    Catherynne M. Valente
    “When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.”
    Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

  • #16
    Stephen  King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    Stephen King

  • #17
    Stephen  King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    Stephen King

  • #18
    Stephen  King
    “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #19
    Stephen  King
    “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
    Stephen King

  • #20
    Stephen  King
    “I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
    Stephen King

  • #21
    Stephen  King
    “you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #22
    Stephen  King
    “There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.”
    Stephen King

  • #23
    Nicole Krauss
    “there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”
    Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

  • #24
    Noura Noman
    “الخوف أمر ضروري لغريزة البقاء .. علينا أن نشعر ببعض الخوف لكي نحمي أنفسنا من مخاطر لا نستطيع أن نواجهها”
    Noura Noman, أجوان

  • #25
    بثينة العيسى
    “عندما نولد إناثاً ، فنحنُ نولد قضايا”
    بثينة العيسى, عروس المطر

  • #26
    بثينة العيسى
    “عندما نولدُ إناثاً، فنحنُ نولد قضايا، لأن العالم مزوّد بتقنياتٍ جاهزة للحدّ منا، إنني أعتبر فكرة كهذه من قبيل المسلّمات، وفي الوقت نفسه، أظن بأن المرأة التي تترعرع في وطن، أو في منزلٍ، ذكوري، هي امرأة محظوظة، لأن الفرصة متاحة أمامها لتقاتل، إنها تملكُ الكثير من الفرص، لأجل أن تتحول إلى نموذج، فهي كبيرة، لمجرد أنها أنثى، وهي مزودة بقضية جاهزة - بمقاسات ملائمة - لتقاتل من أجلها، لقد وفّرت على نفسها عناء البحث عن معاناة، ومشقة المكابدة لأجل أن تظلّ على قيد الإنسانية، أن لا تتخشب مفاصلها، أو تتحول بشرتها إلى جلد سلحفاة، ووجهها إلى تابوت طفل..”
    بثينة العيسى, عروس المطر

  • #27
    Susan Ee
    “My friends call me Wrath,” says Raffe. “My enemies call me Please Have Mercy. What’s your name, soldier boy?”
    Susan Ee, Angelfall

  • #28
    Susan Ee
    “Here, I’ll show you how to use it. Let me see your foot.”
    “That’s a pretty intimate demand in the angel world. It usually takes dinner, some wine, and sparkling conversation for me to give up my feet.”
    Susan Ee, Angelfall

  • #29
    Susan Ee
    “Why were the other angels attacking you?"

    "It's impolite to ask the victim of violence what they did to be attacked.”
    Susan Ee, Angelfall

  • #30
    Susan Ee
    “We now play a permanent game of I-am-crazier-and-scarier-than-you. And in that game, my mother is our secret weapon.”
    Susan Ee, Angelfall



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