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#1

“Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say.”
― Ted Chiang, Mind-Rain: Your Favorite Authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series

22 likes

#2

“Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Goliath

95 likes

#3

“Remember, the enemy's gate is down.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

tags: ender

670 likes

#4

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27746 likes

#5

“Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.”
― Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind

120 likes

#6

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-reading

8493 likes

#7

“What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from "away" and start being from "here"?”
― Blue Balliett, The Calder Game

38 likes

#8

“The violin wasn't alive. It wasn't a baby or an animal, not living.
But that would be easier to believe if I hadn't felt it breathe and sing.”
― Jessica Martinez, Virtuosity

13 likes

#9

“I don’t know a thing about jazz.”
“That’s okay.” He pulled me toward the door and opened it. “You know music. Jazz will explain itself.”
― Jessica Martinez, Virtuosity

5 likes

#10

“Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

tags: graffiti, paraphrased

155 likes

#11

“A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright

tags: architecture, humor

187 likes

#12

“Television is chewing gum for the eyes.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright

44 likes

#13

“Chaos isn't good for your health.”
― India Arie

tags: lyrics

7 likes

#15

“And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

1407 likes

#16

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: humans, pain, scars

18071 likes

#17

“Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

385 likes

#18

“Stop yelling. If everyone’s yelling, no one can be heard.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

144 likes

#19

“I didn't want the sun to rise. I didn't want the world to continue turning. I wanted the whole planet put into stasis until I could catch up.”
― Anna Sheehan, A Long, Long Sleep

tags: stasis, truth, world

56 likes

#20

“One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

tags: bean, two-heads-are-better-than-one

97 likes

#21

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

21144 likes

#22

“standing in line is a form of oppression”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

107 likes

#23

“Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

tags: words-of-wisdom

160 likes

#24

“I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

tags: books, fiction

79 likes

#25

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20752 likes

#26

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

13093 likes

#27

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

9974 likes

#28

“Creativity takes courage. ”
― Henri Matisse

2100 likes

#29

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley

tags: music

23154 likes

#30

“A fierce hand gripped my chest, squeezing my lungs. No. it wasn't my lungs. It was my heart. It was breaking.
Wasn't I stronger than this?”
― Anna Sheehan, A Long, Long Sleep

tags: rose, true-to-life

11 likes

#31

“Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.”
― Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

tags: p-166

459 likes

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