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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #3
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #4
    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #5
    William Shakespeare
    “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
    William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  • #6
    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

  • #7
    Suzanne Collins
    “You love me. Real or not real?"
    I tell him, "Real.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #8
    Suzanne Collins
    “You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #10
    Margaret Atwood
    “Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
    Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

  • #11
    William Arthur Ward
    “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
    William Arthur Ward

  • #12
    William Blake
    “To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.”
    William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

  • #13
    Jane Austen
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

  • #14
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #15
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “Impropriety is the soul of wit.”
    W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #17
    T.H. White
    “The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
    T.H. White, The Once and Future King

  • #18
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
    Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

  • #19
    Kirby Michael Wright
    “For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them.”
    Kirby Wright, Moloka'i Nui Ahina: Summers on the Lonely Isle

  • #20
    “I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said.
    "It would look stunning, My Lady," she called.
    She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.”
    Kristin Cashore, Graceling

  • #21
    “When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
    Kristin Cashore, Graceling

  • #22
    W.H. Auden
    “I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
    Till China and Africa meet,
    And the river jumps over the mountain
    And the salmon sing in the street”
    W.H. Auden

  • #23
    Marie Rutkoski
    “Isn't that what stories do, make real things fake, and fake things real?”
    Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse

  • #24
    Marie Rutkoski
    “Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.”
    Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse

  • #25
    Marie Rutkoski
    “The truth can deceive as well as a lie.”
    Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse

  • #26
    Marie Rutkoski
    “Sometimes you think you want something,” Arin told him, “when in reality you need to let it go.”
    Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Crime

  • #27
    John Green
    “Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.”
    John Green

  • #28
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
    Edgar Allen Poe

  • #29
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #30
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
    Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre



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