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  • #1
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
    "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
    Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

  • #2
    Jane Austen
    “Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #3
    Trudi Canavan
    “So what were you [Sonea] and Dorrien discussing before?' Akkarin asked.
    She turned to regard him. 'Discussing?'
    'Outside the farmhouse when I was buying the food.'
    'Oh. Then. Nothing.'
    He smiled and nodded. 'Nothing. Amazing subject, that one. Produces such fascinating reactions in people.”
    Trudi Canavan, The High Lord

  • #4
    J.K. Rowling
    “You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry.
    "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #5
    Caitlin Moran
    “You can tell whether some misogynistic societal pressure is being exerted on women by calmly enquiring, ‘And are the men doing this, as well?’ If they aren’t, chances are you’re dealing with what we strident feminists refer to as ‘some total fucking bullshit’.”
    Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

  • #6
    Holly Black
    “Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn”
    Holly Black, Ironside

  • #7
    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #8
    C.S. Lewis
    “Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

  • #9
    Laini Taylor
    “Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them.

    And its snap split the world in two.”
    Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

  • #10
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #11
    Cassandra Clare
    “You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #12
    Suzanne Collins
    “I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #13
    Trudi Canavan
    “Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?”
    Trudi Canavan, The High Lord

  • #14
    Malorie Blackman
    “I pulled him closer to me, wrapping my arms around him, kissing him just as desperately as he was kissing me. Like if we could just love long enough and hard enough and deep enough, then the world outside would never, could never hurt us.”
    Malorie Blackman, Noughts & Crosses

  • #15
    Gail Carson Levine
    “It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.”
    Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted

  • #16
    J.K. Rowling
    “Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
    JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #17
    Lewis Carroll
    “Curiouser and curiouser.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #18
    Cassandra Clare
    “Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #19
    Suzanne Collins
    “It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #20
    Philip Pullman
    “That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.”
    Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

  • #21
    Laini Taylor
    “I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.”
    Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

  • #22
    Cassandra Clare
    “You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will."

    "There was a time I thought I was a ferret," Will said, "but that turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? Because I didn't.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #23
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #24
    Cassandra Clare
    “Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be."

    He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #25
    Holly Black
    “Great. Lookout. I'm a lookout. Another thing to put on my college applications. What do I do if I see someone?"
    Val looked back. "I'm not sure, actually.”
    Holly Black, Valiant
    tags: humor

  • #26
    Holly Black
    “Kaye: You know what the sun looks like?
    Janet: No, What?
    Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is all over the water.
    Janet: That's gross, Kaye.
    Kaye: And the moon is just watching. She's just watching him die. She must have driven him to it.”
    Holly Black, Tithe

  • #27
    Philip Pullman
    “You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
    Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

  • #28
    J.K. Rowling
    “You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #29
    Cassandra Clare
    “You know,” Cecily said, “you really didn’t have to throw that man through the window.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #30
    Laini Taylor
    “Love is a luxury."
    "No. Love is an element."
    An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.”
    Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone



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