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#1

“Being right wasn't nearly as important as doing right....”
― Ridley Pearson, The Academy

tags: doing-right

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#2

“You can’t get any ‘cooler’ than Disney World.”
― Ridley Pearson, Disney After Dark

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#3

“Who's Chernabog?" Grumbled Maybeck.
Philby answered,"Only the most powerful villian Walt Disney ever created.”
― Ridley Pearson, Disney at Dawn

tags: chernabog, disney, maybeck, philby, villian

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#4

“If you don't believe in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck”
― Ridley Pearson, Disney After Dark

tags: adventure, crazy, disney, friendship, magic, night, teen-fiction

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#5

“Wayne was one of the worst drivers Finn had ever met. The bus nearly sideswiped two cars, then veered left and scraped its wheels against the curb, before smashing back down the roadway.”
― Ridley Pearson, Disney After Dark

tags: finn, wayne

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#6

“...there can't be two geniuses in the same bed.”
― Ridley Pearson, Killer Summer

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#7

“Ms. McMartin had no close family. Her nearest relative was a distant cousin who had recently died in Shanghai, after a severe allergic reaction to a bowl of turtle and arsenic soup.”
― Jacqueline West, The Shadows

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#8

“When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.”
― Ridley Pearson, Disney After Dark

tags: amanda

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#9

“Especially with four insanely angry, sword-carrying pirates bearing down on you, followed closely by an alien with a genetic malfunction that posed like Elvis Presley and looked slightly like a cross between a koala and a cuddly dog.”
― Ridley Pearson, Disney in Shadow

tags: alien, dog, koala, pirates

23 likes

#10

“SHUT UP!...PADDLE!”
― Ridley Pearson, Disney After Dark

tags: humorous

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#11

“Finn whispered, "What has a head, thorax, and abdomen, but stands six feet tall?"
"A snowman?”
― Ridley Pearson Shell Game

tags: finn, laughs, question, snowman

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#12

“Okay, so let's run faster.”
― Ridley Pearson

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#13

“For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a bell and the next she was calling him Simon. Who was Simon? He had no idea.”
― Suzanne Collins, Gregor the Overlander

tags: gregor, gregor-the-overlander, suzanne-collins

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#14

“Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write.”
― Suzanne Collins

tags: gregor-the-overlander

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#15

“Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

tags: pain

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#16

“Heil Hitler," he said, which, he presumed, was another way of saying, "Well, goodbye for now, have a pleasant afternoon.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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#17

“Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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#18

“And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

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#19

“Other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of a cupboard.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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#20

“It's been my experience that those people who seem the most 'normal' are in fact the most dangerous.”
― Jacqueline West, The Second Spy

tags: danger, normal

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#21

“...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.”
― John Boyne , The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

tags: death, friendship, holocaust, inspirational, life, love, tear-jerker, wwii-fiction

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#22

“What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

tags: children, epiphany, holocaust, thoughts

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#23

“The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of the cupboard.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

tags: exploring

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#24

“Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that? ”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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#25

“He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly.
"You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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#26

“. . .only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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#27

“Their lost voices Must continue to be heard.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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#28

“Bruno: Why do you wear pajamas all day?
Shmuel: The soldiers. They took all our clothes away.
Bruno: My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away. ”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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#29

“Stupid people are dangerous.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

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#30

“Here's some advice. Stay alive.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

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