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  • #1
    Sun Tzu
    “If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”
    Sun Tzu

  • #2
    Rick Riordan
    “Myths are simply stories about truths we've forgotten.”
    Rick Riordan, The Sword of Summer

  • #3
    Rick Riordan
    “My name is Magnus Chase. I’m sixteen years old. This is the story of how my life went downhill after I got myself killed.”
    Rick Riordan, The Sword of Summer

  • #4
    Stan Lee
    “Excelsior!”
    Stan Lee

  • #5
    Felicia Day
    “Nobody should feel lonely or embarrassed about liking something. Except for illegal sex picture stuff. And murder and dogfighting...”
    Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet

  • #6
    Julie   Murphy
    “Then he left, and with him he took the sun, the moon, the stars, and anything inside of me that might have been good.”
    Julie Murphy, Side Effects May Vary

  • #7
    Jack Thorne
    “My geekness is a-quivering.”
    Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two

  • #8
    Alexandra Bracken
    “I love you.” For whatever small comfort it was worth, he would have the truth between them now. “Most desperately. Bloody inconvenient, that.”
    Alexandra Bracken, Passenger
    tags: love

  • #9
    Robin Jarvis
    “There is no evil in the darkness, it's just an absence of light.”
    Robin Jarvis, Dancing Jax

  • #10
    Colleen Oakes
    “He is the sun and the moon and everything in between.”
    Colleen Oakes, Stars
    tags: love

  • #11
    Katie Alender
    “I'm not the beach-going type. the thought of being crowded into an endless sea of sun worshipers was the opposite of tempting - give me wizard school any day.”
    Katie Alender, The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall

  • #12
    Ernest Cline
    “I was staring out the classroom window and daydreaming of adventure when I spotted the flying saucer.”
    Ernest Cline, Armada

  • #13
    Seamus Heaney
    “That was their way, their heathenish hope; deep in their hearts they remembered hell.”
    Seamus Heaney, Beowulf

  • #14
    Leah Thomas
    “Please follow these instructions:
    1. Stack the pages of this letter neatly.
    2. Roll the pages up into a cylinder.
    3. Smack yourself over the head with it.
    4. Repeat. You complete ass.”
    Leah Thomas, Because You'll Never Meet Me

  • #15
    Stephanie Oakes
    “Growing up, I believed in miracles. I guess I don’t anymore.”
    Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

  • #16
    Eoin Colfer
    “I'm the crazy girly captain, Remember?”
    Eoin Colfer, The Arctic Incident

  • #17
    Eoin Colfer
    “We're being led by an idiot with a crayon.”
    Eoin Colfer, The Arctic Incident

  • #18
    Karen Russell
    “Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldn’t be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a library’s peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of light…”
    Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

  • #19
    Oliver Sacks
    “And then, as if thrown by a giant paintbrush, there appeared a huge, trembling, pear-shaped blob of the purest indigo. Luminous, numinous, it filled me with rapture: It was the color of heaven, the color, I thought, which Giotto had spent a lifetime trying to get but never achieved—never achieved, perhaps, because the color of heaven is not to be seen on earth.”
    Oliver Sacks, Hallucinations

  • #20
    Roald Dahl
    “It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”
    Roald Dahl, The Witches

  • #21
    Roald Dahl
    “In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy-tale. This is about REAL WITCHES. The most important thing you should know about REAL WITCHES is this. Listen very carefully. Never forget what is coming next.”
    Roald Dahl, The Witches

  • #22
    Stephen  King
    “even the most well-adjusted person is holding on to his or her sanity by a greased rope.”
    Stephen King, Skeleton Crew

  • #23
    Carrie Fisher
    “I had to comport myself with something approaching dignity, at twenty.”
    Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

  • #24
    Stacy Schiff
    “IN 1692 THE Massachusetts Bay Colony executed fourteen women, five men, and two dogs for witchcraft.”
    Stacy Schiff, The Witches: Salem, 1692

  • #25
    Agatha Christie
    “Hercule Poirot's methods are his own. Order and method, and 'the little gray cells'.”
    Agatha Christie, The Big Four

  • #26
    “A place for everything and everything in its place. A stitch in time saves nine. Failing to plan is planning to fail.”
    Coco Simon, Alexis: The Icing on the Cupcake

  • #27
    Agatha Christie
    “You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
    Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

  • #28
    Joanne Fluke
    “If chocolate were a mandatory part of breakfast, people wouldn’t be so
    grouchy in the morning.”
    Joanne Fluke, Strawberry Shortcake Murder

  • #29
    Samantha Silver
    “Yes, Watkins, I’m sure you’re hot on the trail and definitely seconds away from finding the murderer as you continue to investigate the dirt on the floor that’s obviously come from your own shoes.”
    Samantha Silver, Poison in Paddington

  • #30
    “Food is one of the great comforts and healers in life”
    Maggie Blackburn, Little Bookshop of Murder



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