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  • #1
    Nnedi Okorafor
    “I felt the pain and the glory of growth, was straining and shuddering with it.”
    Nnedi Okorafor, Home

  • #2
    Octavia E. Butler
    “In order to rise
    From its own ashes
    A phoenix
    First
    Must
    Burn.”
    Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

  • #3
    Dean Koontz
    “She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.”
    Dean Koontz, Lightning

  • #4
    Tennessee Williams
    “human beings dream of life everlasting, that's the reason! But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven.”
    Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

  • #5
    Octavia E. Butler
    “All that you touch
    You Change.

    All that you Change
    Changes you.

    The only lasting truth
    is Change.

    God
    is Change.”
    Octavia E. Butler

  • #6
    Dean Koontz
    “Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.”
    Dean Koontz, Forever Odd

  • #7
    Kate DiCamillo
    “Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
    Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

  • #8
    Tennessee Williams
    “I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
    Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

  • #9
    Ben Okri
    “Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
    Ben Okri

  • #10
    Nnedi Okorafor
    “We prefer to explore the universe by traveling inward, as opposed to outward.”
    Nnedi Okorafor, Binti

  • #11
    P.D. James
    “But what do you believe? I don't just mean religion. What are you sure of?"

    "That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be.”
    P.D. James, The Children of Men

  • #12
    P.D. James
    “If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.”
    P.D. James

  • #13
    Benjamin Spock
    “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
    Benjamin Spock

  • #14
    Dante Alighieri
    “Do not be afraid; our fate
    Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
    Dante Alighieri, Inferno

  • #15
    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #16
    Brian Selznick
    “I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
    Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

  • #17
    “Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
    Jonathan Kellerman

  • #18
    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #19
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
    Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

  • #20
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #21
    N.K. Jemisin
    “In the wake of that, Sunandi could do nothing but allow a moment of proper Gujaareen silence. There was something to the custom, she had decided some years ago, of letting a brief passage of time cleanse the air, after dangerous words and thoughts had tainted it.”
    N.K. Jemisin, The Shadowed Sun

  • #22
    N.K. Jemisin
    “Any woman can face the world alone, but why should we have to?”
    N.K. Jemisin, The Shadowed Sun
    tags: women

  • #23
    Octavia E. Butler
    “Read every day and learn from what you read.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories

  • #24
    Octavia E. Butler
    “First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.”
    Octavia Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories

  • #25
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #26
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #27
    N.K. Jemisin
    “Even the smallest act of peace is a blessing upon the world.”
    N.K. Jemisin, The Shadowed Sun

  • #28
    Ernest Cline
    “Going outside is highly overrated.”
    Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

  • #29
    Ernest Cline
    “People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.”
    Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

  • #30
    Akwaeke Emezi
    “Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit.”
    Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
    tags: truth



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