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  • #1
    Ko Un
    “Body and soul, let's all go / transformed into arrows! / Piercing the air / body and soul, let's go / with no turning back.”
    Ko Un

  • #2
    Danielle Steel
    “Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
    Danielle Steel, The Gift

  • #3
    Tom Perrotta
    “Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”
    Tom Perrotta, Election

  • #4
    “Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
    Jonathan Kellerman

  • #5
    Beatrix Potter
    “There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
    Beatrix Potter

  • #6
    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #7
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #8
    Nicole Krauss
    “When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
    Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

  • #9
    Annie Proulx
    “You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
    Annie Proulx

  • #10
    Neil Gaiman
    “We...we could be friends.'

    We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #11
    Brandon Sanderson
    “You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.

    It's really funny.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

  • #12
    Derek Landy
    “They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said.

    China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.”
    Derek Landy, Mortal Coil

  • #13
    Kelly Creagh
    “The more this guy talked, the more he sounded like a fortune cookie.”
    Kelly Creagh, Nevermore

  • #14
    Cassandra Clare
    “Ah,” said a voice from the doorway, “having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you?
    “It’s biannual,” said Jem. “And no, this is not that meeting.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

  • #15
    Cassandra Clare
    “They’re not hideous,” said Tessa.
    Will blinked at her. “What?”
    “Gideon and Gabriel,” said Tessa. “They’re really quite good-looking, not hideous at all.”
    “I spoke,” said Will, in sepulchral tones, “of the pitch-black inner depths of their souls.”
    Tessa snorted. “And what color do you suppose the inner depths of your soul are, Will Herondale?”
    “Mauve,” said Will.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

  • #16
    Cassandra Clare
    “Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #17
    “Never trust a duck.”
    Will Herondale

  • #18
    Cassandra Clare
    “Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

  • #19
    Cassandra Clare
    “He seemed to realize she was staring at him, because the cursing stopped. "You cut me," he said. His voice was pleasant. British. Very ordinary. He looked at his hand with critcal interest. "It might be fatal."
    Tessa looked at him with wide eyes. "Are you the Magister?"
    He tilted his hand to the side. Blood ran down it, spattering the floor. "Dear me, massive blood loss. Death could be imminent.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #20
    William Golding
    “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
    William Golding, Lord of the Flies

  • #21
    Sarah Addison Allen
    “I was just telling Claire about a guy I met in bread class. I hate him, but he could be my soul mate.”
    Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

  • #22
    Virginia Woolf
    “There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
    Virginia Woolf, The Waves

  • #23
    Virginia Woolf
    “Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

  • #24
    Adi Alsaid
    “How do text messages make you feel existential?

    I start thinking about exactly that: how people can edit a thought before sending it out to the world. They can make themselves seem more well spoken than they are, or funnier, smarter. I start thinking that no one in the world is who they say the are, then my mind goes to how I also edit myself, not just online but in real life, except for those rare instances like right now where I'm ranting- even though that's a lie because I've had this train of thought before and damned if I didn't tweak it in my head a few times to make it sound better- and then my mind starts racing so furiously I can't control my thoughts, and I start thinking about robots and wondering if I'm even a real person.”
    Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

  • #25
    Margaret Atwood
    “Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”
    Margaret Atwood



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