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  • #1
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    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

  • #4
    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #5
    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

  • #6
    J.K. Rowling
    “Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
    J.K. rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #7
    Rick Yancey
    “But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.”
    Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

  • #8
    Rick Yancey
    “Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.”
    Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

  • #9
    Rick Yancey
    “We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.”
    Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

  • #10
    Rick Yancey
    “How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.”
    Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

  • #11
    Rick Yancey
    “That's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear.”
    Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

  • #12
    Rick Yancey
    “You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.”
    Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

  • #13
    Rick Yancey
    “I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite.”
    Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

  • #14
    Rick Yancey
    “After another half second, he's locked me in a bear hug, crushing me into his chest and lifting my feet a couple inches off the ground as I kick furiously with my heels, twisting my head back and forth, snapping at his forearm with my teeth.
    And the whole time his lips tickling the delicate skin of my ear. "Cassie. Don't. Cassie..."
    "Let...me...go."
    "That's been the whole problem. I can't.”
    Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

  • #15
    Rick Yancey
    “When I cry - when I let myself cry - that's who I cry for. I don't cry for myself. I cry for the Cassie that's gone.
    And I wonder what that Cassie would think of me.
    The Cassie who kills.”
    Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

  • #16
    Rick Yancey
    “I'm here because they've killed almost all of us, but not all of us. And that's their mistake, son. That's the flaw in their plan. Because if you don't kill all of us at once, whoever's left are not going to be the weak ones. The strong ones- and only the strong ones- will survive. The bent but unbroken, if you know what I mean. People like me. And people like you.”
    Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

  • #17
    Rick Yancey
    “Climb onto my shoulders. I will not let you fall.”
    Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

  • #18
    Rick Yancey
    “Do you know how to tell who the enemy is, Cassie?”
    Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

  • #19
    Rick Yancey
    “And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.”
    Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

  • #20
    Rick Yancey
    “I am the one,
    Not Running,
    Not Staying,
    But FACING”
    Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

  • #21
    Rick Yancey
    “I'm just like you. I'm scared and I'm angry and I'm confused and I don't know what the hell I'm going to do, but I do know you can't have it both ways. You can't say you're a human in one breath and a cockroach in the next.”
    Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

  • #22
    “When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
    Kristin Cashore, Graceling

  • #23
    “How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went unarmed and were taught nothing of fighting, while the strong were trained to the highest reaches of their skill.”
    Kristin Cashore, Graceling

  • #24
    “I know you don't want this, Katsa. But I can't help myself. The moment you came barreling into my life I was lost. I'm afraid to tell you what I wish for, for fear you'll... oh, I don't know, throw me into the fire. Or more likely, refuse me. Or worst of all, despise me," he said, his voice breaking and his eyes dropping from her face. His face dropping into his hands. "I love you," he said. "You're more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone could be. And I've made you cry; and there I'll stop.”
    Kristin Cashore, Graceling
    tags: love

  • #25
    “Something caught in her throat at this second thanks, when she'd threatened him so brutally. When you're a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.”
    Kristin Cashore, Graceling

  • #26
    “Katsa didn't think a person should thank her for not causing pain. Causing joy was worthy of thanks, and causing pain worthy of disgust. Causing neither was neither, it was nothing, and nothing didn't warrant thanks.”
    Kristin Cashore, Graceling

  • #27
    “She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.”
    Kristin Cashore, Graceling

  • #28
    Ally Condie
    “Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?”
    Ally Condie, Matched

  • #29
    Ally Condie
    “Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”
    Ally Condie, Matched

  • #30
    Ally Condie
    “Once you want something, everything changes.”
    Ally Condie, Matched



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