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  • #1
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    J.K. Rowling
    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #4
    J.K. Rowling
    “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #5
    J.K. Rowling
    “It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  • #6
    J.K. Rowling
    “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”
    J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

  • #7
    J.K. Rowling
    “It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #8
    J.K. Rowling
    “I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #9
    J.K. Rowling
    “Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign… to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very own skin. Quirrel, full of hatred, greed, and ambition, sharing his soul with Voldemort, could not touch you for this reason. It was agony to touch a person marked by something so good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #10
    J.K. Rowling
    “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #11
    L.M. Montgomery
    “I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.”
    L.M. Montgomery

  • #12
    L.M. Montgomery
    “True friends are always together in spirit.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #13
    L.M. Montgomery
    “After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

  • #14
    L.M. Montgomery
    “I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

  • #15
    L.M. Montgomery
    “You were never poor as long as you had something to love.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

  • #16
    L.M. Montgomery
    “If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon

  • #17
    L.M. Montgomery
    “A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as quickly, very little the worse for wear. On the contrary, a girl who would take love seriously would probably be a good while finding herself in love and would require something beyond mere friendly attentions from a man before she would think of him in that light.”
    L.M. Montgomery, My Dear Mr. M: Letters to G.B. Macmillan from L.M. Montgomery
    tags: love

  • #18
    “It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.”
    Kevin Sullivan

  • #19
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    L.M. Montgomery

  • #20
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.”
    Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Blue Castle
    tags: fear

  • #21
    L.M. Montgomery
    “We ought always to try to influence others for good.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #22
    L.M. Montgomery
    “The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #23
    Shannon Hale
    “I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.”
    Shannon Hale

  • #24
    Shannon Hale
    “Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye. ”
    Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl

  • #25
    Shannon Hale
    “Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.”
    Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days

  • #26
    Shannon Hale
    “There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.”
    Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

  • #27
    Shannon Hale
    “We know it's all just daydreaming...But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth.”
    Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl

  • #28
    Shannon Hale
    “Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.”
    Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

  • #29
    Shannon Hale
    “I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-"
    "It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.”
    Shannon Hale, The Actor and the Housewife

  • #30
    Shannon Hale
    “Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself--”
    Shannon Hale



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