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    Eoin Colfer
    “It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
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    Charles Dickens
    “But I am thinking like a lover, or like an ass: which I suppose is pretty nearly the same.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
    tags: humor, truth
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Holly Black
    “That’s family for you. Can’t live with them, can’t murder them.”
    ― Holly Black, Black Heart
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    Scott Westerfeld
    “What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.”
    ― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds
    tags: endings, life, life-and-living, life-quotes
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    Sarah Rees Brennan
    “Oh, come on. What's that thing you say? The past is another country. You make out with different people there.”
    ― Sarah Rees Brennan, Unmade
    tags: humor
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    Sarah Rees Brennan
    “I am so sad about my underwear," Kami announced, and Ash looked as if he regretted all of his life decisions.”
    ― Sarah Rees Brennan, Unmade
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    Sarah Rees Brennan
    “Abracadabra, moron.”
    ― Sarah Rees Brennan, Unmade
    tags: humor-inspirational
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    Sarah Rees Brennan
    “I did not fall. I climbed, to a place high enough that I could see clearly. Once I saw, I was certain.”
    ― Sarah Rees Brennan, Unmade
    tags: love
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  • #10
    “Sticking up for ourselves in the same way we would one of our friends is a hard but satisfying thing to do. Sometimes it works.”
    ― Amy Poehler, Yes Please
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    Tamora Pierce
    “Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight
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    Tamora Pierce
    “You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him."
    "So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess
    tags: alanna, amusing, philosophy, tamora-pierce
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    Tamora Pierce
    “Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones
    tags: humor, obedience
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    Tamora Pierce
    “I suppose he could have changed," Neal said dryly. "I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil." The other pages snorted.

    Kel eyed her friend. "You do look yellow around the edges," she told him, her face quite serious. "I hadn’t wanted to bring it up."

    "We daffodils like to have things brought up," Neal said, slinging an arm around her shoulders. "It reminds us of spring.”
    ― Tamora Pierce (Page) , Page
    tags: kel, neal, page
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    Tamora Pierce
    “I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Wolf-Speaker
    tags: apple-tree, daine, numair, tristan-staghorn, wolf-speaker
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    Tamora Pierce
    “Tris: "I was reading."
    Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt."
    Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Briar's Book
    tags: interruption, reading, sandry, talk, tris
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    Tamora Pierce
    “Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Emperor Mage
    tags: everyone, humor, scholar
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    Tamora Pierce
    “Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable.
    Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? “People always forget the rest of the saying,” she complained. “‘And satisfaction brought it back.”
    ― Tamora Pierce , Trickster's Choice
    tags: aly, cat, cats, curiosity, fesgao
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    Tamora Pierce
    “A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Page
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    Tamora Pierce
    “You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Emperor Mage
    tags: boys, daine, fighting, misogyny, owned
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    Tamora Pierce
    “Seniors get to do all the jolly things," Owen complained as they walked to archery practice that first day.

    Neal glared at the chubby second-year with all the royal disdain of a vexed lion. He was limping from a staff blow to the knee. "You are a bloody minded-savage," he informed Owen sternly. "I hope you are kidnapped by centaurs.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Page
    tags: humourous, neal, owen
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    Tamora Pierce
    “I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, First Test
    tags: nealan
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Do you answer a question directly?"
    "Hard to say. Ah, there, I've done it again”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
    tags: humor, sturmhond
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    Marissa Meyer
    “Kai cleared his throat. Stood straighter. "I assume you are going to the ball?"
    "I-I don't know. I mean, no. No, I'm sorry, I'm not going to the ball."
    Kai drew back, confused. "Oh well... but... maybe you would change your mind? Because I am, you know."
    "The prince."
    "Not bragging," he said quickly. "Just a fact.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Cinder
    tags: ball, cinder, kai, prince
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  • #25
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Tamora Pierce
    “There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart."
    -George to Alanna”
    ― Tamora Pierce, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
    tags: romantic
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  • #27
    Tamora Pierce
    “Men don't think and differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
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    Tamora Pierce
    “You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart."

    "And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, First Test
    tags: kel, neal
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    Tamora Pierce
    “I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Squire
    tags: jousting, kel
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    Tamora Pierce
    “You are a terrifying creature," the Voice told her solemnly. "You do not take your place in your father's tent, letting men make your decisions for you. You ride as a man, you fight as a man, and you think as a man --"

    "I think as a human being," she retorted hotly. "Men don't think any differently from women -- they just make more fuss about being able to.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
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