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  • #1
    Lisa McMann
    “I want to tell you a story, Alex."
    Alex nibbled on his bottom lip, waiting. Wondering now if Mr. Today really understood that Alex was turning him down.
    "Simber." The old mage said.
    Alex automatically turned to the door, expecting to see the beast.
    Mr. Today shook his head. "No, he's not hear. Simber was my first creation. Before there was Artime, there was Simber.”
    Lisa McMann, Island of Silence

  • #2
    Rick Riordan
    “Love was the most savage monster of all.”
    Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

  • #3
    Dr. Seuss
    “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
    Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
    Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

  • #4
    Richard Peck
    “As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.”
    Richard Peck, Ghosts I Have Been

  • #5
    Richard Peck
    “This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.”
    Richard Peck, Secrets at Sea

  • #6
    Richard Peck
    “Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.”
    Richard Peck

  • #7
    Richard Peck
    “If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.”
    Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder
    tags: humor

  • #8
    Richard Peck
    “I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready”
    Richard Peck

  • #9
    Richard Peck
    “Besdies, to turn me ladylike might have rendered me useless and possibly ornamental.”
    Richard Peck, Ghosts I Have Been

  • #10
    Richard Peck
    “I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.”
    Richard Peck, The River Between Us

  • #11
    Richard Peck
    “She had eyes in the back of her heart.”
    Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder
    tags: love

  • #12
    Richard Peck
    “But it was a rich, picture-perfect, it-can't-happen-here kind of suburb where people had gone, not to deal with life's problems, but to avoid them.”
    Richard Peck

  • #13
    Johnny Cash
    “All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
    Johnny Cash

  • #14
    Phoebe Stone
    “Lovely high ceilings,' I said. 'If you were very tall, you'd feel quite comfortable in here.”
    Phoebe Stone, Romeo Blue

  • #15
    Phoebe Stone
    “I would never advise shooing away a good idea.”
    Phoebe Stone, Romeo Blue

  • #18
    “Now stand in the corner, and think about what you've done!”
    Taylor Swift

  • #19
    “You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.”
    Taylor Swift

  • #20
    Phoebe Stone
    “She loves him so
    but he didn't stay.
    The wind can't blow
    this storm away.”
    Phoebe Stone, Romeo Blue

  • #21
    Rick Riordan
    “A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It will cost the world dearly.”
    Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

  • #22
    C.S. Lewis
    “Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. ”
    C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

  • #23
    C.S. Lewis
    “It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

  • #24
    C.S. Lewis
    “The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

  • #25
    C.S. Lewis
    “Suspicion often creates what it suspects.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

  • #26
    C.S. Lewis
    “Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

  • #27
    C.S. Lewis
    “No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

  • #28
    C.S. Lewis
    “And Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is too weak and fuddled to shake off.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

  • #29
    C.S. Lewis
    “The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

  • #30
    C.S. Lewis
    “The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

  • #31
    C.S. Lewis
    “I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

  • #32
    C.S. Lewis
    “Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters



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