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  • #1
    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

  • #2
    E. Lockhart
    “She will not be simple and sweet.
    She will not be what people tell her she should be.”
    E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

  • #3
    Sarah Dessen
    “It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.”
    Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

  • #4
    Melvil Dewey
    “To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.”
    Melvil Dewey

  • #5
    “A fight is like a fire. You think you have it under control, you think you can stop it whenever you want, but before you know it, it’s living, breathing thing and there’s no controlling it and you were a fool to think you could.”
    Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

  • #6
    David Levithan
    “Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.”
    David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

  • #7
    Xiaolu Guo
    “People always say it's harder to heal a wounded heart than a wounded body. Bullshit. It's exactly the opposite—a wounded body takes much longer to heal. A wounded heart is nothing but ashes of memories. But the body is everything. The body is blood and veins and cells and nerves. A wounded body is when, after leaving a man you’ve lived with for three years, you curl up on your side of the bed as if there’s still somebody beside you. That is a wounded body: a body that feels connected to someone who is no longer there.”
    Xiaolu Guo, Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth

  • #8
    Sarah Dessen
    “Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”
    Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

  • #9
    Xiaolu Guo
    “It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.”
    Xiaolu Guo, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

  • #10
    Suzanne Collins
    “You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #11
    Sarah Dessen
    “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
    Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

  • #12
    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #13
    Archibald MacLeish
    “What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists."

    [The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]”
    Archibald MacLeish

  • #14
    Lauren Oliver
    “Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.
    But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”
    Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

  • #15
    Natalie Babbitt
    “Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”
    Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “Drag your thoughts away
    from your troubles...
    by the ears, by the heels,
    or any other way you can manage it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #17
    “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
    Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #19
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #20
    Neil Gaiman
    “What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #21
    Neil Gaiman
    “Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #22
    Neil Gaiman
    “You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

  • #23
    Lois Lowry
    “Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
    Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

  • #24
    Sylvia Plath
    “I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #25
    Sylvia Plath
    “I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #26
    Sylvia Plath
    “I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #27
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #28
    Fahmida Riaz
    “What feminism means for me is simply that women, like men, are complete human beings with limitless possibilities.”
    Fahmida Riaz

  • #29
    Cheryl Strayed
    “You get to define the terms of your life.”
    Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

  • #30
    “Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.”
    Gwyneth Paltrow



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