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    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
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    Lemony Snicket
    “When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: comfort, crying, tears
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: live-death-love
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    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
    tags: truth
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    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing
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    Eoin Colfer
    “Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
    tags: confidence, humor, ignorance, knowledge
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    Eoin Colfer
    “Trust me. I'm a genius.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
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    Eoin Colfer
    “Good. Illegal is always faster.”
    ― Eoin Colfer
    tags: crime, expediency
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    Philip Pullman
    “I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.”
    ― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
    tags: mary-malone, morality
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    Philip Pullman
    “I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they wont' just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight...”
    ― Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials - The Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass
    tags: love, physics
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    Philip Pullman
    “People are too complicated to have simple labels.”
    ― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
    tags: labels, people
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    Philip Pullman
    “When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.”
    ― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
    tags: choice, philosophy
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    Philip Pullman
    “There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: books, companionship, inspirational
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    Philip Pullman
    “Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.”
    ― Philip Pullman
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    Philip Pullman
    “Tell them stories.”
    ― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
    tags: afterlife, harpies, lyra
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    Philip Pullman
    “Every atom of me and every atom of you.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: his-dark-materials, love, philip-pullman
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    Philip Pullman
    “Everything means something.”
    ― Philip Pullman, Lyra's Oxford
    tags: daemon, his-dark-materials, lyra-belaqua, lyra-s-oxford, lyra-silvertongue
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    Marissa Meyer
    “I'm sure I'll feel much more grateful when I find a guy who thinks complex wiring in a girl is a turn-on.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Cinder
    tags: cinder, cyborg, girl, humor, marissa-meyer
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    Marissa Meyer
    “All right, Miss Cryptic. What's the new plan, then?"
    Glancing around the room, Cinder tipped up her chin. "It starts with kidnapping the groom."
    Iko's hand shot into the air.
    "Yes, Iko?"
    "That is the best idea ever. Count me in.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Cress
    tags: cinder, cress, iko, lunar-chronicles, marissa-meyer
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    Pierce Brown
    “You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Red Rising
    tags: darrow, helldiver, leader, pierce-brown, red-rising, war
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    Pierce Brown
    “I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Red Rising
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    Pierce Brown
    “Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Red Rising
    tags: enslave, free, injustice
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    Pierce Brown
    “The measure of a man is what he does when he has power.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Red Rising
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    Pierce Brown
    “There is a flower that grows on Mars. It is red and harsh and fit for our soil. It is called haemanthus. It means
    “blood blossom.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Red Rising
    tags: blood-blossom, flower, mars
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    Patrick Ness
    “You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: philosophy, wisdom
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    Patrick Ness
    “Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
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    Patrick Ness
    “Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: a-monster-calls
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    Patrick Ness
    “Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: books, stories
    1316 likes



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