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  • #1
    Elizabeth Lim
    “Find the light that makes your lantern shine,” she used to say. “Hold on to it, even when the dark surrounds you. Not even the strongest wind will blow out the flame.”
    Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

  • #2
    Elizabeth Lim
    “Be the light that makes someone's lantern shine.”
    Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

  • #3
    Elizabeth Lim
    “If fate is a bunch of strings, then I'll carry scissors. My choices are my own. I'll make them as I please.”
    Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

  • #4
    Elizabeth Lim
    “I would tell you stories from dawn to dusk if it meant filling your eyes with happiness.”
    Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

  • #5
    Elizabeth Lim
    “Fear is just a game, Shiori, I reminded myself. You win by playing.”
    Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

  • #6
    Elizabeth Lim
    “Your heart is your home. Until you understand that, you belong nowhere.”
    Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

  • #7
    Elizabeth Lim
    “But a promise is a promise, not a kiss in the wind, to be thrown about without care. It is a piece of yourself that is given away and will not return until your pledge is fulfilled.”
    Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

  • #8
    Ruta Sepetys
    “We have only died if you forget us.”
    Ruta Sepetys, The Fountains of Silence

  • #9
    Ruta Sepetys
    “I clung to books and words because, unlike people, they’d never abandon me.”
    Ruta Sepetys, The Fountains of Silence

  • #10
    “The thanks isn’t just for the wontons. Thank you also, in both this lifetime and the last, for being the only person to never look down on me,”
    Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 1

  • #11
    “Did you know the most wonderful dreams are rarely ever real?”
    Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 1

  • #12
    “If I can't be wronged for you. Mo Ran and Taxian-Jun. I am willing to be scorned with you for all eternity.”
    Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat, The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 1

  • #13
    “The first smile of the day was important. It determined how the dozens of others that day would turn out.”
    Yeon Somin, The Healing Season of Pottery

  • #14
    “Whether it’s pottery or life, it takes more than one attempt for them to come out right. And all that effort makes the end product more valuable, too.”
    Yeon Somin, The Healing Season of Pottery

  • #15
    “Firing pottery is like lighting a fire in your heart.”
    Yeon Somin, The Healing Season of Pottery

  • #16
    Sōsuke Natsukawa
    “In the same way that music is made up of more than notes, books are more than just words.”
    Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

  • #17
    Sōsuke Natsukawa
    “Books have souls,’ repeated the cat softly. ‘A cherished book will always have a soul. It will come to its reader’s aid in times of crisis.”
    Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

  • #18
    Sōsuke Natsukawa
    “Don’t give in to loneliness. You aren’t alone. You have many friends looking out for you.”
    Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

  • #19
    Elizabeth Lim
    “Find the light that makes your lantern shine. Hold on to it, even when the dark surrounds you. Not even the strongest wind will blow out the flame.”
    Elizabeth Lim, Her Radiant Curse

  • #20
    Elizabeth Lim
    “That’s what sisters are for. My joys are your joys and your miseries are my miseries.”
    Elizabeth Lim, Her Radiant Curse

  • #21
    Elizabeth Lim
    “A promise is not a kiss in the wind, Channi, Mama used to tell me. It is a piece of yourself that is given away and will not return until your pledge is fulfilled.”
    Elizabeth Lim, Her Radiant Curse

  • #22
    “Time goes on even when we do not.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

  • #23
    “A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

  • #24
    “I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

  • #25
    Dustin Thao
    “Don’t worry,” Sam says. “I can make you another one. I can make you a thousand more.”
    Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

  • #26
    “Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures.
    No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #27
    “Come back to life, love. I'll be here when you wake up.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #28
    Can you hear my heart? I want to ask him.

    I want you to make a list of all your favorite things, and I want to be on it.
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me



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