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    “Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
    Sara Henderson

  • #2
    William Golding
    “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
    William Golding, Lord of the Flies

  • #3
    Tuli Kupferberg
    “When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”
    Tuli Kupferberg

  • #4
    Rosamunde Pilcher
    “She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
    Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers

  • #5
    H.G. Wells
    “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
    H.G. Wells

  • #6
    George Orwell
    “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
    George Orwell

  • #7
    Mary Renault
    “One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
    Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

  • #8
    We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip
    “We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #9
    C.J. Cherryh
    “Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
    C. J. Cherryh

  • #10
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #11
    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

  • #12
    Hettie Jones
    “Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.”
    Hettie Jones

  • #13
    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #14
    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #15
    Lewis Carroll
    “Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
    Lewis Carroll , Alice in Wonderland

  • #16
    Lewis Carroll
    “I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #17
    Lewis Carroll
    “Off with their heads!”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #18
    E.E. Cummings
    “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
    It's always our self we find in the sea.”
    e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

  • #19
    Lyndall Gordon
    “It was her religion to make the best of everything.”
    Lyndall Gordon, Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft – The Unconventional Genius Who Founded Modern Feminism and Influenced Political Philosophy

  • #20
    Ransom Riggs
    “Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better.”
    Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

  • #21
    Ransom Riggs
    “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #22
    Ransom Riggs
    “When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #23
    Ransom Riggs
    “We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #24
    Ransom Riggs
    “Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries—but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #25
    Kate DiCamillo
    “There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.”
    Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

  • #26
    Zig Ziglar
    “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
    Zig Ziglar

  • #27
    Neil Gaiman
    “Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #28
    Shmuley Boteach
    “There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
    Shmuley Boteach

  • #29
    Shelby Foote
    “I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.”
    Shelby Foote

  • #30
    Andrea Barrett
    “We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
    Andrea Barrett



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