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  • #1
    Jennifer Donnelly
    “It goes on, this world, stupid and brutal.
    But I do not.
    I do not.”
    Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

  • #2
    Brian Jacques
    “Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
    Brian Jacques, Taggerung

  • #3
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “To think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

  • #4
    C.S. Lewis
    “Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

  • #5
    Shannon Hale
    “Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”
    Shannon Hale

  • #6
    Shannon Hale
    “I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.”
    Shannon Hale

  • #7
    Jennifer Donnelly
    “What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched from floor to ceiling and lined the entire room. I turned around and around in a slow circle, feeling as if I'd just stumbled into Ali Baba's cave. I was breathless, close to tears, and positively dizzy with greed.”
    Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

  • #8
    Roman Payne
    “Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.”
    Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

  • #9
    Jarod Kintz
    “I have a beard of fog that I wear on misty mornings. It’s not cigarette smoke, but I’d understand if you wanted to shave it off and inhale it.”
    Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

  • #10
    “I often use comic books, video games, or other nerdy pop-culture references in my writing; it helps me understand the more complicated parts of the world a little more easily since, culturally, it’s the ocean I swim in. For example, yesterday I compared committing to a romantic relationship to Harry Potter’s prophecy to kill Voldemort.”
    Emily V. Gordon, Super You: Release Your Inner Superhero

  • #11
    Mary H.K. Choi
    “Loving someone was traumatizing. You never knew what would happen to them out there in the world. Everything precious was also vulnerable.”
    Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

  • #12
    Abby Wambach
    “Strength is a full gamut. You’ve got to be strong from top to bottom, but you also have to raise your hand and say, “I’m feeling weak right now. I need some help.” There is true strength in being able to ask for help.”
    Abby Wambach, Forward: A Memoir

  • #13
    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    Jim Henson



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