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“Maybe that's what growing up is. When you can't be who you are and do what everyone's telling you to do at the same time anymore. - Rowie from Sister Mischief”
― Laura Goode, Sister Mischief

“Hip-hop is a reflection of your surroundings and an instrument of change.”
― Laura Goode, Sister Mischief

“If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done. ”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Magician's Elephant

“I intended only lilies. That was my intention: a bouquet of lilies. - The Magician”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Magician's Elephant

“But perhaps you do not understand. I was crippled, crippled by an elephant that came through the roof - Madam LaVaughn”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Magician's Elephant

“She was working to remind herself of who she was. She was working to remember that somewhere in another place entirely she was known and loved.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Magician's Elephant

“Magic is always impossible.... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Magician's Elephant

“In our hip-hop lives we make rhymes we make beats we go big or go home. - Esme from Sister Mischief”
― Laura Goode

“It's not like I want to get discovered, exactly, the way you hear actresses getting picked off at diners. It's more about my own road to discovery like pecking my way out of a shell. I just want to roll deep with a pack of talented bastards. Doesn't everybody?”
― Laura Goode, Sister Mischief

“Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis.”
― Patrick Ness

“I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it."

[Patrick Ness slams library cuts (The Guardian, 23 June 2011)]”
― Patrick Ness

“There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you're free to choose any one you like. - Patrick Ness on Libraries”
― Patrick Ness

“Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.”
― Patrick Ness

“They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look. - on librarians”
― Patrick Ness

“Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.”
― Patrick Ness

“Sometimes it's hard to wait for good things to happen. - Tia Isa”
― Meg Medina

“This place is alive," Sunni said in wonder. "Things are moving. Inside a painting.”
― Teresa Flavin

“But life doesn't turn out the way you expect. Ever. - Iris from What Comes After”
― Steve Watkins

“In the silence, I could hear the distinct sound of goats maa-ing in the barn. Lying there listening to them made me smile, too. I'd always loved goats - every one of them different from every other one, and all of them goofy and playful.”
― Steve Watkins, What Comes After

“There was pie on the table when Tugs returned. Pie in the Button family meant trouble.”
― Anne Ylvisaker, The Luck of the Buttons

“Tugs was surprised to find that the cake was actually pretty dry and not as good as the cakes her own mother made. It was a revelation. Tugs had assumed that tastier food came out of fancier houses.”
― Anne Ylvisaker, The Luck of the Buttons

“Tugs used to think that everyone's name was in the dictionary, and when she had realized it was only hers, both Tugs and Button, she felt suddenly fond and possessive of it, as if this book were put here for her guidance alone.”
― Anne Ylvisaker, The Luck of the Buttons

“The dictionary says progress means moving forward. Herbert Hoover was just a boy in Iowa. Then he lived all over the world helping solve problems. Now he is president of the United States. That is progress. And Iowas is part of progress. So I am part of progress. - Tugs Button”
― Anne Ylvisaker, The Luck of the Buttons

“Tugs had felt a sense of possibility today as she made that small speech, and there had to be a way to get that feeling back.”
― Anne Ylvisaker, The Luck of the Buttons

“Some people have a lucky rabbit's good, or a lucky coin, but here in Goodhue, we have a lucky Button. Tugs Button.”
― Anne Ylvisaker, The Luck of the Buttons

“Love,
Jamie

P.S. I can't believe you're dying. Please don't die.”
― Adam Rapp, Punkzilla

“This is an unbearable kiss, unbearable, unreal, unimaginable.”
― Laura Goode, Sister Mischief

“If I’m writing, at least I don’t feel as paralyzed.”
― Laura Goode, Sister Mischief

“Use all the ugliness you’re feeling to make something beautiful”
― Laura Goode, Sister Mischief

“Part of me is afraid that everyone will laugh, that I’m a caricature of myself.”
― Laura Goode, Sister Mischief