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    Francesca Lia Block
    “Pianos, unlike people, sing when you give them your every growl. They know how to dive into the pit of your stomach and harmonize with your roars when you’ve split yourself open. And when they see you, guts shining, brain pulsing, heart right there exposed in a rhythm that beats need need, need need, need need, pianos do not run. And so she plays.”
    ― Francesca Lia Block, Love Magick
    tags: music, piano, pianos
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    Bob Hope
    “When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. ”
    ― Bob Hope
    tags: music, piano
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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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    Jess C. Scott
    “Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).”
    ― Jess C Scott, The Other Side of Life
    tags: cyberpunk, elven, elves, family, friends, friendship, human-behavior, human-nature, humanity, humankind, humans, inside-ourselves, insight, insightful, life, life-lessons, love, meaning, meaning-of-life, nq-mobile-omar-khan, omar-khan-nq-mobile, reflection, reflective, social-commentary, social-issues, social-science, society, truth, urban-fantasy, urban-fantasy-series, ya-urban-fantasy, young-adult, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-literature, young-adult-novels, young-adult-series
    1303 likes

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    Lauren Oliver
    “How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
    tags: before-i-fall, young-adult-fiction
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    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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    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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  • #8
    “I was too proud to show him how hurt I was.”
    ― Kate Le Vann, Things I Know About Love
    tags: young-adult-fiction
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    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
    80 likes

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  • #10
    “Even when the world throws it worst and then turns in its back, there is still always hope”
    ― Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six
    tags: science-fiction, young-adult-fiction
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    A.S. King
    “I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is. Which Zen guy said "If you want to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water"?”
    ― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz
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    Mignon McLaughlin
    “Only where children gather
    is there any real chance of fun.”
    ― Mignon McLaughlin
    tags: children-s-literature, inspirational, young-adult-fiction
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    Faith Reese Martin
    “Every great day has a story and a song!”
    ― Faith Reese Martin, White Doe in the Mist: The Mystery of the Lost Colony
    tags: animals, courage, fantasy, friendship, historical-fiction, lost-colony, mystery, time-travel, underground-railroad, young-adult-fiction
    27 likes

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    Curtis Sittenfeld
    “How quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and inglorious we always sound.”
    ― Curtis Sittenfeld
    tags: chick-lit, young-adult-fiction
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    Laini Taylor
    “She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
    tags: fantasy, young-adult
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    Libba Bray
    “Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.”
    ― Libba Bray, Rebel Angels
    tags: fantasy, young-adult
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    Beth Revis
    “(D)reams are like that: they go in and out of memories and scenes, but they're never real. They're never real, and I hate them because they aren't.”
    ― Beth Revis, Across the Universe
    tags: science-fiction-romance, young-adult
    502 likes

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    Laini Taylor
    “Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
    tags: fantasy, happiness, young-adult
    816 likes

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    Elizabeth Scott
    “I didn't want it to be one good memory that led to a lot of bad ones. I wanted it to stay what it was, one amazing moment, something that was strong and sweet enough to stand on its own. Something I could remember without any pain.
    - Kate”
    ― Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You
    tags: elizabeth-scott, romance, teens, young-adult
    345 likes

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  • #20
    “Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles”
    ― Tahereh Mafi
    tags: dystopia, hate, inspirational, love, shatter-me, young-adult
    677 likes

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  • #21
    Morgan Matson
    “It’s not about the destination. It’s getting there that’s the good part.
    - Leonard”
    ― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
    tags: roadtrip, young-adult
    331 likes

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    Melissa de la Cruz
    “Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.”
    ― Melissa de la Cruz, The Van Alen Legacy
    tags: bhie, blue-bloods, fiction, martin-kingsley, van-alen-legacy, young-adult
    262 likes

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    Tom Upton
    “Other than the voices in my head, I think I’m pretty normal.”
    ― Tom Upton, Tiny Voices
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    Tom Upton
    “...Life is much simpler if you don’t notice anything....”
    ― Tom Upton, Just Plain Weird
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    Elizabeth Scott
    “Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for.”
    ― Elizabeth Scott, Living Dead Girl
    tags: banned-book, ya, young-adult
    137 likes

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    Carrie Jones
    “It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that mostly freaks me out. I don't know the name of that fear, but I know I've got it, the fear of the unknown.”
    ― Carrie Jones (Need), Need
    tags: carrie-jones, paranormal-romance, young-adult
    68 likes

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  • #27
    Tom Upton
    “If you just go with the flow, no matter what weird things happen along the way, you always end up exactly where you belong.”
    ― Tom Upton, Just Plain Weird
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  • #28
    Germaine Greer
    “You're only young once, but you can be immature forever”
    ― Germaine Greer
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  • #29
    Veronica Rossi
    “And it's always better, isn't it, when you discover answers on your own?”
    ― Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky
    tags: existentialism, guidance, inspirational, young-adult
    78 likes

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  • #30
    Markus Zusak
    “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: power-of-words
    9862 likes



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