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  • #1
    Monica Hesse
    “Choose to love.”
    Monica Hesse, They Went Left

  • #2
    Michelle Obama
    “Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.”
    Michelle Obama, Becoming

  • #3
    “I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.”
    R.J. Palacio, Wonder

  • #4
    Matt Haig
    “People you love never die. That is what Omai had said, all those years ago. And he was right. They don't die. Not completely. They live in your mind, the way they always lived inside you. You keep their light alive. If you remember them well enough, they can still guide you, like the shine of long-extinguished stars could guide ships in unfamiliar waters.”
    Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

  • #5
    Connie Willis
    “Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.”
    Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog
    tags: cats

  • #6
    Rainbow Rowell
    “The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

  • #7
    Andy Weir
    “It’s true, you know. In space, no one can hear you scream like a little girl.”
    Andy Weir, The Martian

  • #8
    John Scalzi
    “Hiding the past never works as well as simply neglecting it.”
    John Scalzi, The Consuming Fire

  • #9
    Barry Eisler
    “Is there any teacher better, more patient, more determined than fate?”
    Barry Eisler, Zero Sum

  • #10
    Barry Eisler
    “Some people just need killing.”
    Barry Eisler, The Night Trade

  • #11
    John Scalzi
    “The trick is not to find the story of the century. You won’t miss that story when it happens. No one will miss it. The trick is to find the story of the day and for that day make whoever reads it or hears it care about it so intensely that it doesn’t leave them. Then it becomes a story of their life. Maybe even the story of their life.”
    John Scalzi, Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome

  • #12
    Blake Crouch
    “There's an energy to these autumn nights that touches something primal inside of me. Something from long ago. From my childhood in Western Iowa. I think of high school football games and the stadium lights blazing down on the players. I smell ripening apples, and the sour reek of beer from keg parties in the cornfields. I feel the wind in my face as I ride in the bed of an old pickup truck down a country road at night, dust swirling red in the taillights and the entire span of my life yawning out ahead of me.

    It's the beautiful thing about youth.

    There's a weightlessness that permeates everything because no damning choices have been made, no paths committed to, and the road forking out ahead is pure, unlimited potential.”
    Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

  • #13
    Gillian Flynn
    “No parents should see their child die, that such an event is like nature spun backward.”
    Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

  • #14
    Clare Mackintosh
    “My steps feel lighter now and I realize it’s because I’m running toward something, and not away from it.”
    Clare Mackintosh, I Let You Go

  • #15
    Liane Moriarty
    “Veronika had accused her father of being a misogynist and Thomas had told Veronika to stop acting like a pseudo lesbian intellectual.”
    Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

  • #16
    Terry Pratchett
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

  • #17
    Frank Herbert
    “The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #18
    James S.A. Corey
    “That’s what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn’t matter.”
    James S.A. Corey, Drive

  • #19
    Aldous Huxley
    “All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.”
    Aldous Huxley, Island

  • #20
    Liane Moriarty
    “Neither of us is going to jail, you ninny. One day we’ll be sweet little old ladies and we’ll probably forget that it didn’t happen the way we said it did.’

    ‘I can’t imagine us as sweet little old ladies.’

    ‘It does seem unlikely.”
    Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

  • #21
    Aldous Huxley
    “We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.”
    Aldous Huxley, Island

  • #22
    Hope Jahren
    “When you grow up around people who don’t speak very much, what they do say to you is indelible.”
    Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

  • #23
    John Scalzi
    “I’m continually confronted with the human tendency to ignore or deny facts until the last possible instant. And then for several days after that, too.” Attavio”
    John Scalzi, The Collapsing Empire

  • #24
    Hope Jahren
    “It’s very liberating; I feel great. Long hair is so fucking foolish, I feel sorry for guys who have it,” he said, expressing the total conviction one finds in those who have only recently been converted.”
    Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

  • #25
    Rainbow Rowell
    “If Levi were a dog, he'd be a golden retriever. If he were a game, he'd be a Ping-Pong, incessant and bouncing and light.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

  • #26
    Rainbow Rowell
    “You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away.
    Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

  • #27
    Norton Juster
    “So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
    Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

  • #28
    Hope Jahren
    “However much you love your job, it ain't gonna love you back.”
    Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

  • #29
    Liane Moriarty
    “If her back had ever hurt like this when she was twenty she would have been hysterical, demanding painkillers and cups of tea in bed, but she has found that nobody is especially surprised to hear you’re in pain when you’re in your eighties. You might find it astonishing, but nobody else does.”
    Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

  • #30
    Norton Juster
    “Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.”
    Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth



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