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  • #1
    Cassandra Clare
    “We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

  • #2
    Libba Bray
    “May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queen's health. Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.”
    Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    Mark Twain

  • #4
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #5
    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    Charles W. Eliot

  • #6
    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

  • #7
    Suzanne Collins
    “You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #8
    Suzanne Collins
    “You love me. Real or not real?"
    I tell him, "Real.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #9
    Celia Rivenbark
    “Of course, I know that turtles aren't mammals. They are ambivalents, which can live on air or underwater and write with their right or left flippers. They also almost never vote.”
    Celia Rivenbark, Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank: And Other Words of Delicate Southern Wisdom

  • #10
    Celia Rivenbark
    “I wanted to kill her with my bare hands but it wouldn't have been Christian.”
    Celia Rivenbark, Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank: And Other Words of Delicate Southern Wisdom

  • #11
    Courtney Summers
    “Helen Turner hates me and the way Helen Turner hates me feels like the worst kind of betrayal. A woman who doesn’t think about daughters she doesn’t have.”
    Courtney Summers, All the Rage

  • #12
    Courtney Summers
    “You know all the ways you can kill a girl?

    God, there are so many.”
    Courtney Summers, All the Rage

  • #13
    Andrew  Smith
    “And then it's always that one word that makes you so different and puts you outside the overlap of everyone else; and that word is so fucking big and loud, it's the only thing anyone ever hears when your name is spoken.

    And whenever that happens to us, all the other words that make us the same disappear in its shadow.”
    Andrew Smith, Winger

  • #14
    Marissa Meyer
    “But you're the only one, Scarlet. You'll always be the only one.”
    Marissa Meyer, Scarlet

  • #15
    Marissa Meyer
    “Wolf, are you asking me to be ... your alpha female?"
    He hesitated.
    Scarlet couldn't help it - she burst into laughter. "Oh - I'm sorry. That was mean. I know I shouldn't tease you about this."
    Still grinning, she made to retract her hand, but he was suddenly gripping it, refusing to relinquish the touch. "You just look so scared, like I'm going to disappear any minute. We're stuck on a spaceship, Wolf. I'm not going anywhere."
    His lips twitched, his nervousness beginning to ease away, though his hand stayed tense over hers.
    "Alpha female," he murmured. "I sort of like that."
    Beaming, Scarlet gave a mild shrug. "It could grow on me.”
    Marissa Meyer, Scarlet

  • #16
    Marissa Meyer
    “Scarlet and Wolf are saying gushy things in the galley," Iko said. "Normally I like gushy things, but its different when its real people. I prefer the net dramas.”
    Marissa Meyer, Scarlet

  • #17
    Marissa Meyer
    “He froze, becoming stone still. As the hover climbed the hill to the palace, his shoulders sank, and he returned his gaze to the window. "She's my alpha," he murmured, with a haunting sadness in his voice.

    Alpha.

    Cress leaned forward, propping her elbows on her knees, "Like the star?"

    "What star?"

    She stiffened, instantly embarrassed, and scooted back from him again. "Oh. Um. In a constellation, the brightest star is called the alpha. I thought maybe you meant that she's...like...your brightest star." Looking away, she knotted her hands in her lap, aware that she was blushing furiously now and this beast of a man was about to realize what an over-romantic sap she was.

    But instead of sneering or laughing, Wolf sighed, "Yes," he said, his gaze climbing up to the full moon that had emerged in the blue evening sky. "Exactly like that.”
    Marissa Meyer, Cress

  • #18
    Marissa Meyer
    “Thorne shuffled his feet. “You know, if it was a bad kiss, you can just say so.”
    She stiffened. “That’s not at all what I … Wait. Did you think it was a bad kiss?”
    “No,” he said, with an abrupt, clumsy laugh. “I thought it was … um.” He cleared his throat. “But there were clearly a lot of expectations, and a lot of pressure, and…” He squirmed in the chair. “We were going to die, you know.”
    “I know.” She squeezed her knees into her chest. “And, no, it wasn’t … I didn’t think it was a bad kiss.”
    “Oh, thank the stars.”
    marissa meyer, Cress

  • #19
    Marissa Meyer
    “Now, let's never talk about you being related to her again. Because I'm technically still engaged to her, and that's really weird."
    Cinder couldn't help laughing, even exhaustedly, even just to cover up the screaming inside, as he bound her up in his arms again. Her headache began to fade, replaced with the strength of his heartbeat and the way she felt almost delicate when she was pressed up against him like this.
    Almost fragile.
    Almost safe.
    Almost like a princess.”
    Marissa Meyer, Cress

  • #20
    Marissa Meyer
    “He scowled at her. "That's it, Cinder. No more secrets. I don't know if I can survive any more big reveals from you, so if you have anything else to tell me, out with it. Right now."
    Cinder rocked back on her heels, pondering.
    Cyborg. Lunar. Princess.
    No more secrets. No more lies.
    Well, just one.
    She though she might be a tiny bit in love with him.
    But there was no way she could tell him that.”
    Marissa Meyer, Cress

  • #21
    Holly Black
    “It is my belief that books are living things.... And as living things, they need to be protected.”
    Holly Black

  • #22
    Marissa Meyer
    “Captain?"
    "Cress."
    She couldn't not say it, although she realized he was right.It was sort of scary. Much scarier than it had been the first time she'd told him, out in the desert. It was different now. It was real. "I'm in love with you."

    He chuckled. "I should hope so, after all that." He leaned forward and pressed a kiss against her temple. "And I love you too.”
    Marissa Meyer, Winter

  • #23
    Renée Ahdieh
    I love you, a thousand times over. And I will never apologize for it.
    Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn
    tags: love

  • #24
    Renée Ahdieh
    “My soul sees its equal in you.”
    Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

  • #25
    Renée Ahdieh
    “You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?”
    Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

  • #26
    Renée Ahdieh
    “You are not weak. You are not indecisive. You are strong. Fierce. Capable beyond measure.”
    Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

  • #27
    Traci Chee
    “If you're reading this, then maybe you know you ought to read everything. And maybe you know you ought to read deeply. Because there's witchery in these words and spellwork in the spine.”
    Traci Chee, The Reader

  • #28
    Traci Chee
    “But books are curious objects. They have the power to trap, transport, and even transform you if you are lucky.”
    Traci Chee, The Reader

  • #30
    Traci Chee
    “...clutching the Book to his chest, under his crossed arms, as if trying to press it into his ribs, until his lungs filled with letters and his heart became a pulsing paragraph.”
    Traci Chee, The Reader

  • #31
    Traci Chee
    “But books are curious objects. They have the power to trap, transport, and even transform you if you are lucky. But in the end, books—even magic ones—are only objects pieced together from paper and glue and thread. That was the fundamental truth the readers forgot. How vulnerable the book really was. To fire. To the damp. To the passage of time. And to theft.”
    Traci Chee, The Reader



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