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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    James Rollins
    “Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.”
    James Rollins

  • #3
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don't Just

    Don't just learn, experience.
    Don't just read, absorb.
    Don't just change, transform.
    Don't just relate, advocate.
    Don't just promise, prove.
    Don't just criticize, encourage.
    Don't just think, ponder.
    Don't just take, give.
    Don't just see, feel.
    Don’t just dream, do.
    Don't just hear, listen.
    Don't just talk, act.
    Don't just tell, show.
    Don't just exist, live.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #4
    Norman Vincent Peale
    “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
    Norman Vincent Peale

  • #5
    Benny Bellamacina
    “If you wake up tired, you’ve been chasing dreams. If you go to bed tired, your making your dreams happen.”
    Benny Bellamacina, The King of Rhyme

  • #6
    Cheryl Kaye Tardif
    “Life’s too short to not forgive those who hurt us. I trust you to do what’s right. Right by your own heart.…Forgiveness sets you free.”
    Cheryl Kaye Tardif, Whale Song

  • #7
    Michael Crichton
    “It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.”
    Michael Crichton

  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
    Albert Einstein

  • #9
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #10
    Debbie Macomber
    “The best way to get even is to forget.”
    Debbie Macomber, Mrs. Miracle

  • #11
    Frank McCourt
    “He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

  • #12
    Kim Stanley Robinson
    “We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one else knows these lives. Consciousness is solitary. Each person lives in that bubble universe that rests under the skull, alone.”
    Kim Stanley Robinson, Galileo's Dream

  • #13
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

  • #14
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #15
    Henry Adams
    “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
    Henry Adams

  • #16
    Caleb Carr
    “It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.”
    Caleb Carr

  • #17
    Matthew Pearl
    “Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he took to that of his own notion.”
    Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club

  • #18
    Jim Rohn
    “Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.”
    Jim Rohn

  • #19
    Sonia Rumzi
    “You cannot forgive just once, forgiveness is a daily practice.”
    Sonia Rumzi

  • #20
    Ian Stewart
    “There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't.”
    Ian Stewart, Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities

  • #21
    Sean J. Quirk
    “She sits quietly in the passenger seat, holding Lola tightly in her arms, looking up at the starry sky and thinks about cute, big eyed, little green aliens all sitting quietly behind their desks, pencils in hand, diligently taking notes from their teacher on proper earthly etiquette.
    The thought makes her smile.”
    Sean J. Quirk, Catch

  • #22
    Chris Kuzneski
    “Some people see the glass as half-empty, while others see it as half-full. But Jones stares at it and tries to figure out who drank the damn water.”
    Chris Kuzneski, Sign of the Cross

  • #23
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #24
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

  • #25
    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    Frederick Douglass

  • #26
    George Bernard Shaw
    “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.”
    George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession

  • #27
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #28
    Tarrin P. Lupo
    “When EVIL men make bad laws, righteous men disobey them."
    Pastor Butch Paugh”
    Tarrin P. Lupo

  • #29
    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #30
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
    I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
    My soul can reach”
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning



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