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  • #1
    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #2
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #3
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Just... isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?”
    “It sets a dangerous precedent.”
    “For avoiding pain?”
    “For avoiding life.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

  • #4
    Rachel Hawkins
    “But please . . . don’t keep trying to fix us, Harper. We’re not broken.”
    Rachel Hawkins, Rebel Belle

  • #5
    Jandy Nelson
    “When he plays
    all the flowers swap colors
    and years and decades and centuries
    of rain pour back into the sky”
    Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

  • #6
    A.A. Milne
    “If people ask me,
    I always tell them:
    "Quite well, thank you, I'm very glad to say."
    If people ask me,
    I always answer,
    "Quite well, thank you, how are you today?"
    I always answer,
    I always tell them,
    If they ask me
    Politely...
    BUT SOMETIMES
    I wish

    That they wouldn't”
    A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young

  • #7
    Rick Riordan
    “Tell the sun and stars hello for me.”
    Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

  • #8
    Rachel Hawkins
    “I picked up the nearest weapon I could lay my hands on: a stapler. I lifted it, going for “menacing.” I admit it lacked a certain elegance, but hey. It was worth a shot. David placed his hand on my arm and pushed it back down.
    “What?”
    “Just . . . that’s embarrassing for all of us,” he replied.”
    Rachel Hawkins, Rebel Belle

  • #9
    Jandy Nelson
    “I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.”
    “So damn much,” he says back, only it comes out, “Dude.”
    He still won’t meet my eyes.”
    Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

  • #10
    Jandy Nelson
    “That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.”
    Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

  • #11
    William Shakespeare
    “Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices,
    That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
    Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
    The clouds methought would open, and show riches
    Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked,
    I cried to dream again.”
    William Shakespeare, The Tempest

  • #12
    Rick Riordan
    “Leo: Rainbows. Very macho.
    Annabeth: Butch is our best equestrian, he gets along great with the pegasi.
    Leo: Rainbows, ponies...
    Butch: I'm gonna toss you off this chariot.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

  • #13
    Rick Riordan
    “What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apologize.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

  • #14
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.”
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

  • #15
    Susan Ee
    “I never kid about my warrior demigod status."
    "Oh. My. God." I lower my voice, having forgotten to whisper. "You are nothing but a bird with an attitude. Okay, so you have a few muscles, I’ll grant you that. But you know, a bird is nothing but a barely evolved lizard. That’s what you are.”
    Susan Ee, Angelfall

  • #16
    Andrea Portes
    “Just so you know. I fucking loved you. I fucking loved the daylights out of you.”
    Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

  • #17
    Victoria Schwab
    “Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
    Victoria Schwab, Vicious

  • #18
    Victoria Schwab
    “When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong.”
    Victoria Schwab, Vicious

  • #19
    Victoria Schwab
    “Be lost. Give up. Give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be lost And then you will not care if you are ever found.”
    Victoria Schwab, Vicious

  • #20
    A.A. Milne
    “Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?"
    "I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends."
    "Depends on what?"
    "On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #21
    A.A. Milne
    “And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh.
    Eeyore shook his head from side to side.
    "Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time."
    "Dear, dear," said Pooh, "I'm sorry about that. Let's have a look at you.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #22
    Rick Yancey
    “Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.”
    Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

  • #23
    Rick Yancey
    “You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.”
    Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

  • #24
    Andrea Portes
    “It's one of those dumb days where nothing's really wrong but nothing's really right either and the sky can't even choose to be white or gray.”
    Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

  • #25
    Rainbow Rowell
    “In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)”
    Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

  • #26
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

  • #27
    Rainbow Rowell
    “To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

  • #28
    Rainbow Rowell
    “I miss you."
    "That's stupid," she said. "I saw you this morning."
    "It's not the time," Levi said, and she could hear that he was smiling." It's the distance.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

  • #29
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Sharing a room with the person you want most is like sharing a room with an open fire.

    He's constantly drawing you in. And you're constantly stepping too close. And you know it's not good--that there is no good--that there's absolutely nothing that can ever come of it.

    But you do it anyway.
    And then...
    Well. Then you burn.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #30
    Rainbow Rowell
    “She told me later that her parents had told her to steer clear of me at school.
    "My mum said that nobody really knew where you came from. And that you might be dangerous." "Why didn't you listen to her?" I asked.
    "Because nobody knew where you came from, Simon! And you might be dangerous!"
    "You have the worst survival instincts."
    "Also, I felt sorry for you," she said. "You were holding your wand backwards.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On



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