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    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
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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    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
    tags: reading, writing
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  • #5
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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  • #6
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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  • #7
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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  • #8
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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  • #9
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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  • #10
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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  • #11
    Suzanne Collins
    “District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: young-adult-fiction
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    Lauren Oliver
    “I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
    tags: before-i-fall, young-adult-fiction
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  • #13
    Stephanie Perkins
    “Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
    tags: young-adult-fiction
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    Lauren Oliver
    “Here's one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. It's like that old riddle about a tree falling in a forest, and whether it makes a sound if there's no one around to hear it.

    You keep drawing a line farther and farther away, crossing it every time. That's how people end up stepping off the edge of the earth. You'd be surprised at how easy it is to bust out of orbit, to spin out to a place where no one can touch you. To lose yourself--to get lost.

    Or maybe you wouldn't be surprised. Maybe some of you already know.

    To those people, I can only say: I'm sorry.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
    tags: before-i-fall, young-adult-fiction
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  • #15
    Lauren Oliver
    “I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
    tags: before-i-fall, young-adult-fiction
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  • #16
    Lauren Oliver
    “This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
    tags: before-i-fall, young-adult-fiction
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  • #17
    Lauren Oliver
    “It's not my fault I can't be like you, okay? I don't get up in the morning thinking the world is one big, shiny, happy place, okay? That's just not how I work. I don't think I can be fixed.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
    tags: before-i-fall, young-adult-fiction
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  • #18
    P.C. Cast
    “Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite”
    ― P.C. Cast
    tags: aphrodite, burned, house-of-night, humor, paranormal, vampire, young-adult-fiction
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  • #19
    Richelle Mead
    “This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did."
    I frowned, "What's that?"
    "Homework.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound
    tags: adrian, humor, rose, spirit-bound, vampire-academy, vampires, young-adult-fiction
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  • #20
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.”
    ― laurie halse anderson, Speak
    tags: lauri-halse-anderson, speak, tree, young-adult-fiction
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  • #21
    P.C. Cast
    “No, Kramisha, he's not black. He's a killer bird with evil for his Daddy.”
    ― P.C. Cast, Burned
    tags: burned, house-of-night, kramisha, stevie-ray, young-adult-fiction
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    Suzanne Collins
    “But a shift has occurred since I stepped up to take Prim’s place, and now it seems I have become someone precious. At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me. It is an old and rarely used gesture of our district, occasionally seen at funerals. It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: young-adult-fiction
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  • #23
    Jane Yolen
    “A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.”
    ― Jane Yolen, Girl in a Cage
    tags: books, cage, girl, historical-fiction, marjorie-bruce, old, present, robert-the-bruce, worn, young-adult-fiction
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  • #24
    Jess C. Scott
    “Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.”
    ― Jess C Scott, The Other Side of Life
    tags: beauty, elven, elven-charm, friendship, human-behavior, human-nature, humanity, humankind, humor, insight, insightful, life, life-and-death, love, meaning, modern-society, modernism, modernity, postmodern, reflection, reflections, reflective, relationships, rogue, romance, self, self-confidence, self-discovery, self-love, sense, sensibility, series, social-change, society, superficial, superficiality, thief, thief-at-night, thief-of-love, thievery, thieves, truth, urban-fantasy, urban-fantasy-series, women, ya-urban-fantasy, young-adult, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-literature, young-adult-novels, young-adult-series
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