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  • #1
    Lauren Oliver
    “Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.
    But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”
    Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

  • #2
    John Green
    “Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
    John Green

  • #3
    Meg Cabot
    “Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
    Meg Cabot

  • #4
    Sarah Dessen
    “Don't think or judge, just listen.”
    Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

  • #5
    Scott Westerfeld
    “What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
    Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

  • #6
    E.B. White
    “A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.”
    E.B. White

  • #7
    J.K. Rowling
    “The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #8
    Aristotle
    “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
    Aristotle

  • #9
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

  • #10
    John Green
    “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #11
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “Write about the emotions you fear the most.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson

  • #12
    Sarah Dessen
    “Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.”
    Sarah Dessen

  • #13
    Maureen Johnson
    “Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.”
    Maureen Johnson

  • #14
    Sarah Dessen
    “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
    Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

  • #15
    Sarah Dessen
    “It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.”
    Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

  • #16
    Sarah Dessen
    “It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.”
    Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

  • #17
    Melina Marchetta
    “What do you want from me?" he asks.
    What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him.
    More.”
    Melina Marchetta, Jellicoe Road

  • #18
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #19
    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #20
    So many things become beautiful when you really look.
    “So many things become beautiful when you really look.”
    Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

  • #21
    Lauren Oliver
    “I love you. Remember. They cannot take it”
    Lauren Oliver, Delirium

  • #22
    Jay Asher
    “In the end....everything matters.”
    Jay Asher

  • #23
    Jay Asher
    “Everything...affects everything”
    Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

  • #24
    Socrates
    “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
    Socrates

  • #25
    Richelle Mead
    “You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.”
    Richelle Mead, Frostbite

  • #26
    Sarah Dessen
    “There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.”
    Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

  • #27
    J.K. Rowling
    “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #28
    Suzanne Collins
    “I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
    Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

  • #29
    Meg Cabot
    “[...] even in the cruelest human being there can exist a flower of good. Maybe just the tiniest blossom, in need of water and sunlight, but a flower just the same.”
    Meg Cabot, Shadowland

  • #30
    Veronica Roth
    “A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent



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