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  • #1
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
    Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
    ..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
    "Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: city-of-bones, jace
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.
    "Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.”
    ― Cassandra Clare
    tags: humor, jace-wayland, simon-lewis
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    Cassandra Clare
    “I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
    "Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
    tags: clary-fray, demons, growing-up, humor, jace-wayland, luke, teenager
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  • #5
    Suzanne Collins
    “It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: falling-apart, giving-in
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  • #6
    Cassandra Clare
    “Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: clary, jace, sarcasm
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  • #7
    Cassandra Clare
    “The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: city-of-bones, jace-wayland
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  • #8
    Sarah J. Maas
    “We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “My name is Celaena Sardothien. But it makes no difference if my name's Celaena or Lillian or Bitch, because I'd still beat you, no matter what you call me.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
    tags: assassin
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  • #10
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Names are not important. It's what lies inside of you that matters.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “My name is Celaena Sardothien," she whispered, "and I will not be afraid.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade
    tags: celaena-sardothien, empowerment, fantasy-young-adult, fierce, inspirational, motto, throne-of-glass
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  • #12
    Cassandra Clare
    “She turned back to Jace. "Do you have to be so-," she began, but stopped when she saw his face. It looked stripped down, oddly vulnerable.
    "Unpleasant?" he finishes for her. "Only at days when my adoptive mother tosses me out of the house with instructions never to darken her door again. Usually I'm remarkably good-natured. Try me on any day that doesn't end in y.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
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  • #13
    Simone Elkeles
    “But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.”
    ― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry
    tags: alex-fuentes, bhie, fairy-tales, fiction, on-fiction, perfect-chemistry, simon-elkeles, wishes, young-adult
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  • #14
    “Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles”
    ― Tahereh Mafi
    tags: dystopia, hate, inspirational, love, shatter-me, young-adult
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  • #15
    Richelle Mead
    “ARE YOU CRAZY?" I ASKED.
    He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question.”
    ― Richelle Mead
    tags: adrian-ivashkov, fantasy, rose-hathaway, vampire, young-adult
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  • #16
    Laini Taylor
    “For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
    tags: fantasy, loneliness, young-adult
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  • #17
    Victoria Aveyard
    “I'm a Red girl in a sea of Silvers and I can't afford to feel sorry for anyone, least of all the son of a snake.”
    ― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
    tags: young-adult
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  • #18
    Rainbow Rowell
    “I don't like hello. It makes me sound like I have dementia, like I've never heard a phone ring before and I don't know what's supposed to happen next. Hello?”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
    tags: funny, phone-calls, young-adult
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  • #19
    Ann Marie Frohoff
    “All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.”
    ― Ann Marie Frohoff
    tags: roman, teen-fiction, teenagers, writer, writer-quotes, writers, yalit, young-adult
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  • #20
    Tom Upton
    “...Life is much simpler if you don’t notice anything....”
    ― Tom Upton, Just Plain Weird
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  • #21
    Priya Ardis
    “Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.”
    Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.”
    ― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening
    tags: action, adventure, arthurian, arthurian-collection, camelot, coming-of-age, fairy-tales, fantasy, fiction, greek-mythology, history, love, magic, merlin, mermaid, mythology, novel, paranormal, paranormal-romance, poseidon, retellings, romance, sea-creatures, sword, sword-and-sorcery, teen, time-travel, urban-fantasy, wizards, women-s-fiction, ya, ya-fantasy, ya-paranormal, ya-romance, young-adult
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  • #22
    Karen M. McManus
    “Things'll get worse before they get better.”
    ― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying
    tags: mystery, one-of-us-is-lying, suspense, ya, young-adult
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  • #23
    Susane Colasanti
    “It feels incredible to be outside when I’m supposed to be inside. The sensation of freedom is intoxicating.
    - Sara”
    ― Susane Colasanti, When It Happens
    tags: romance, young-adult
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  • #24
    Kelly Creagh
    “The more this guy talked, the more he sounded like a fortune cookie.”
    ― Kelly Creagh, Nevermore
    tags: mystery, raynolds, sarcasm
    407 likes



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