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“A person who thought he knew everything simply didn’t understand how much there was to know.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Diamond of Darkhold

“Maybe there was no happily ever after [...] but there was happiness sometimes and she had it now, doing what she knew she was born for.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Diamond of Darkhold

“Fitz pulled her forward, and the warm tingling in her hand shot through her body--like a million feathers swelling underneath her skin, tickling her from the inside out.”
― Shannon Messenger, Keeper of the Lost Cities

“It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
― Ben Okri

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

“I think; therefore I am.”
― Rene Descartes

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
― Conan O'Brien

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
― C.P. Cavafy

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.”
― Suzan-Lori Parks

“You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

“If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
But falls into abatement and low price,
Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
― Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
― Andre Brink, Before I Forget

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

“Let the wild rumpus start!”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

“A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

“Lift every voice and sing.”
― James Weldon Johnson

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“What if I mess up?"

"Oh, you will. You'll mess up, you'll make mistakes, you'll break things. Some you'll be able to piece together, and others you'll lose. That's all a given. But there's only one thing you have to do for me."

"What's that?"

"Stay alive long enough to mess up again.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Archived

“Lying is easy. But it's lonely."
"What do you mean?"
"When you lie to everyone about everything, what's left? What's true?"
"Nothing," I say.
"Exactly.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Archived