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  • #1
    Alan Bradley
    “Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.”
    Alan Bradley, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

  • #2
    Thomm Quackenbush
    “She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome Christmas movie.”
    Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

  • #4
    J.M. Barrie
    “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
    J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #8
    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Jim  Butcher
    “Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart.”
    Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

  • #19
    Stephen        King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    Stephen King

  • #20
    John Green
    “What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #22
    Nicole Krauss
    “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
    Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

  • #23
    Albert Einstein
    “When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #24
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #27
    Judy Garland
    “Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
    Judy Garland

  • #28
    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #31
    Stephenie Meyer
    “About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him-and I didn’t know how potent that part might be-that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.”
    Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

  • #33
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #34
    Jarod Kintz
    “I want to make something of myself. I believe it’s called a statue.”
    Jarod Kintz, The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.

  • #36
    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

  • #39
    Henry James
    “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
    Henry James

  • #40
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #41
    Jarod Kintz
    “33 old people went into a nursing home, and only 34 people came out alive. One old woman died while giving birth to twins.”
    Jarod Kintz, The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.

  • #44
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #45
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    George Eliot

  • #47
    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

  • #49
    Lance Armstrong
    “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
    Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins, Every Second Counts

  • #51
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    Thomas A. Edison

  • #52
    Jarod Kintz
    “I like to call in sick to work at places where I’ve never held a job. Then when the manager tells me I don’t work there, I tell them I’d like to. But not today, as I’m sick.”
    Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

  • #53
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #55
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #56
    Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures
    “Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called. 
”
    Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

  • #58
    Stephen Richards
    “I have my own theory: ignorance is bliss. The less you know, the more confident you can be in tackling things.”
    Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide



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