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  • #1
    Anne Ursu
    “But if you were Charlotte, and you had been feeling that life was some cosmic joke that had no punchline, and in the space of a moment you had gone from being Charlotte-without-a-kitten to being Charlotte-with-a-kitten, you too would have found it nothing short of remarkable.”
    Anne Ursu, The Shadow Thieves

  • #2
    Anne Ursu
    “The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, 'Overwhelming feeling of dread.' That was going to go over nicely.”
    Anne Ursu, The Siren Song

  • #3
    Darren Shan
    “Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.”
    Darren Shan

  • #4
    Immaculée Ilibagiza
    “But I came to learn that God never shows us something we aren't ready to understand. Instead, He lets us see what we need to see, when we need to see it. He'll wait until our eyes and hearts are open to Him, and then when we're ready, He will plant our feet on the path that's best for us...but it's up to us to do the walking.”
    Immaculee Ilibagiza, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust

  • #5
    Immaculée Ilibagiza
    “Instead of negotiating or begging for mercy, [my brother Damascene] challenged them to kill him. "Go ahead," he said. "What are you waiting for? Today is my day to go to God. I can feel Him all around us. He is watching, waiting to take me home. Go ahead--finish your work and send me to paradise. I pity you for killing people like it's some kind of child's game. Murder is no game: If you offend God, you will pay for your fun. The blood of the innocent people you cut down will follow you to your reckoning. But I am praying for you. . . I pray that you see the evil you're doing and ask God's forgiveness before it's too late.”
    Immaculee Ilibagiza, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust

  • #6
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

  • #7
    William Golding
    “Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars. Then the breeze died too and there was no noise save the drip and tickle of water that ran out of clefts and spilled down, leaf by leaf, to the brown earth of the island. The air was cool, moist, and clear; and presently even the sound of the water was still. The beast lay huddled on the pale beach and the stains spread, inch by inch.

    The edge of the lagoon became a streak of phosphorescence which advanced minutely, as the great wave of the tide flowed. The clear water mirrored the clear sky and the angular bright constellations. The line of phosphorescence bulged about the sand grains and little pebbles; it held them each in a dimple of tension, then suddenly accepted them with an inaudible syllable and moved on.

    Along the shoreward edge of the shallows the advancing clearness was full of strange, moonbeam-bodied creatures with fiery eyes. Here and there a larger pebble clung to its own air and was covered with a coat of pearls. The tide swelled in over the rain-pitted sand and smoothed everything with a layer of silver. Now it touched the first of the stains that seeped from the broken body and the creatures made a moving patch of light as they gathered at the edge. The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble. The strange, attendant creatures, with their fiery eyes and trailing vapours busied themselves round his head. The body lifted a fraction of an inch from the sand and a bubble of air escaped from the mouth with a wet plop. Then it turned gently in the water.

    Somewhere over the darkened curve of the world the sun and moon were pulling; and the film of water on the earth planet was held, bulging slightly on one side while the solid core turned. The great wave of the tide moved further along the island and the water lifted. Softly, surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon's dead body moved out towards the open sea.”
    William Golding, Lord of the Flies

  • #8
    Ann Coulter
    “I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ.”
    Ann Coulter, If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

  • #9
    Ann Coulter
    “Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are.”
    Ann Coulter, If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

  • #10
    Ann Coulter
    “The Democratic Party supports criminals and Islamic terrorists but has no sympathy for taxpayers.”
    Ann Coulter, If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

  • #11
    Ann Coulter
    “We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.”
    Ann Coulter

  • #12
    Christopher Paolini
    “Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
    Christopher Paolini, Eragon

  • #13
    Catherine Fisher
    “Only the man who has known freedom
    Can define his prison.”
    Catherine Fisher, Incarceron

  • #14
    William Peter Blatty
    “God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.”
    William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

  • #15
    Celine Kiernan
    “(CBI lecture, Dublin, 2008. Speaking on the challenges presented by The Moorehawke Trilogy to the YA reader)

    You can't choose any of these characters and say, 'Yes! I'm completely on your side. You are the good guy! You are the one I agree with.' Because at some stage along the way every single one of these characters will let you down. They may not want to. They may have no choice. But they will let you down.”
    Celine Kiernan, The Poison Throne

  • #16
    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

  • #17
    Lauren Oliver
    “I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.”
    Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

  • #18
    Shel Silverstein
    “If you are a dreamer come in
    If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
    A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
    If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
    For we have some flax golden tales to spin
    Come in!
    Come in!”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #19
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “My candle burns at both ends;
    It will not last the night;
    But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
    It gives a lovely light!”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles

  • #20
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “The world stands out on either side
    No wider than the heart is wide;
    Above the world is stretched the sky,
    No higher than the soul is high.
    The heart can push the sea and land
    Farther away on either hand;
    The soul can split the sky in two,
    And let the face of God shine through.
    But East and West will pinch the heart
    That can not keep them pushed apart;
    And he whose soul is flat—the sky
    Will cave in on him by and by.”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay , Renascence and Other Poems

  • #21
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “Listen, children:
    Your father is dead.
    From his old coats
    I'll make you little jackets;
    I'll make you little trousers
    From his old pants.
    There'll be in his pockets
    Things he used to put there,
    Keys and pennies
    Covered with tobacco;
    Dan shall have the pennies
    To save in his bank;
    Anne shall have the keys
    To make a pretty noise with.
    Life must go on,
    Though good men die;
    Anne, eat your breakfast;
    Dan, take your medicine;
    Life must go on;
    I forget just why.”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • #22
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “I love humanity but I hate people.”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • #23
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “Stranger, pause and look;
    From the dust of ages
    Lift this little book,
    Turn the tattered pages,
    Read me, do not let me die!
    Search the fading letters finding
    Steadfast in the broken binding
    All that once was I!”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems

  • #24
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “This book, when I am dead, will be
    A little faint perfume of me.
    People who knew me well will say,
    She really used to think that way.”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems

  • #25
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
    Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
    I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned. ”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • #26
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
    Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
    Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
    I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • #27
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “For my omniscience paid I toll
    In infinite remorse of soul.
    All sin was of my sinning, all
    Atoning mine, and mine the gall
    Of all regret. Mine was the weight
    Of every brooded wrong, the hate
    That stood behind each envious thrust,
    Mine every greed, mine every lust.
    And all the while for every grief,
    Each suffering, I craved relief
    With individual desire, –
    Craved all in vain! And felt fierce fire
    About a thousand people crawl;
    Perished with each, — then mourned for all!”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems

  • #28
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “Ah! Up then from the ground sprang I
    And hailed the earth with such a cry
    As is not heard save from a man
    Who has been dead, and lives again.
    About the trees my arms I wound;
    Like one gone mad I hugged the ground;
    I raised my quivering arms on high;
    I laughed and laughed into the sky...”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems

  • #29
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “She had a horror he would die at night.
    And sometimes when the light began to fade
    She could not keep from noticing how white
    The birches looked — and then she would be afraid,
    Even with a lamp, to go about the house
    And lock the windows; and as night wore on
    Toward morning, if a dog howled, or a mouse
    Squeaked in the floor, long after it was gone
    Her flesh would sit awry on her. By day
    She would forget somewhat, and it would seem
    A silly thing to go with just this dream
    And get a neighbor to come at night and stay.
    But it would strike her sometimes, making tea:
    _She had kept that kettle boiling all night long, for company._”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • #30
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay



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