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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #2
    William Shakespeare
    “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
    An evil soul producing holy witness
    Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
    A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
    O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
    William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

  • #3
    Jane Austen
    “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #4
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

  • #5
    Sarah Ockler
    “Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.”
    Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer

  • #6
    Jane Austen
    “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #7
    William Shakespeare
    “If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.”
    William Shakespeare, Hamlet

  • #8
    Aristotle
    “Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
    Aristotle

  • #9
    Albert Camus
    “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
    Albert Camus

  • #10
    Sarah Ockler
    “I was, but then I realized that I was holding on to something that didn't exist anymore. That the person I missed didn't exist anymore. People change. The things we like and dislike change. And we can wish they couldn't all day long but that never works.”
    Sarah Ockler, Fixing Delilah

  • #11
    Sarah Ockler
    “Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I'm heavy, like there's to much gravity on my heart.”
    Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer

  • #12
    Lewis Carroll
    “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #13
    “[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.”
    Jenny O'Connell, The Book of Luke

  • #14
    “I guess relationships are just funny like that. It's impossible to figure out why some work out and others don't. Why someone can be so imperfect and still be the perfect person for you. Maybe, in the end, it's not about changing the person you care about. Maybe it's about learning what you can live with. Or maybe it's really about learning what you can't live without.”
    Jenny O'Connell, The Book of Luke

  • #15
    Kiera Cass
    “Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”
    Kiera Cass, The One

  • #16
    Kiera Cass
    “I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.”
    Kiera Cass, The Selection

  • #17
    Kiera Cass
    “It's always the fear of looking stupid that stops you from being awesome.”
    Kiera Cass, The Selection

  • #18
    Kiera Cass
    “America, my love, you are sunlight falling through trees. You are laughter that breaks through sadness. You are the breeze on a too-war day. You are clarity in the midst of confusion.

    You are not the world, but you are everything that makes the world good. Without you, my life would still exist, but that's all it would manage to do.

    You said that to get things right one of us would have to take a leap of faith. I think I've discovered the canyon that must be leaped, and I hope to find you waiting for me on the other side.

    I love you, America.

    Yours forever,
    Maxon”
    Kiera Cass, The One

  • #19
    Kiera Cass
    “He stood and went to read my pin as I approached. “America, is it?” he said, a smile playing on his lips.
    “Yes, it is. And I know I’ve heard your name before, but could you remind me?”
    Kiera Cass, The Selection

  • #20
    Kiera Cass
    “Do you think the ability to sleep in counts as a special skill?” I asked Dad, trying to sound torn over the decision.
    “Yes, list that. And don’t forget to write that you can eat an entire meal in under five minutes,” he replied. I laughed. It was true; I did tend to inhale my food.
    “Oh, the both of you! Why don’t you just write down that you’re an absolute heathen!” My mother went storming from the room.”
    Kiera Cass, The Selection

  • #21
    Kiera Cass
    “Leave it to you to find beauty in something others would say ruins a day.”
    Kiera Cass, The One

  • #22
    Kiera Cass
    “I only have one heart, and I'm saving it.”
    Kiera Cass, The Heir

  • #23
    Kiera Cass
    “Celeste walked up, as strong as I’d ever seen her, and whispered something into Maxon’s ear.

    When she was done, he smiled. “I don’t think that will be necessary.”

    “Good.” She left, closing the door behind her, and I stood to take whatever was coming.

    “What was that about?” I asked, nodding toward the door.

    “Oh, Celeste was making it clear that if I hurt you, she’d make me cry,” he said with a smile.

    I laughed. “I’ve been on the receiving end of those nails, so be careful there.”

    “Yes, ma’am.”
    Kiera Cass, The One

  • #24
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #25
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #26
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

  • #27
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #28
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #29
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #30
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.”
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five



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