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  • #1
    Victoria Schwab
    “You must make time for that which matters, for that which defines you: your passion, your progress, your pen. Take it up, and write your own story.”
    V.E. Schwab, Vicious

  • #2
    S.E. Hinton
    “It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.”
    S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

  • #3
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Better terrible truths than kind lies.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #4
    Leigh Bardugo
    “We meet fear. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen.
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #5
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “The way Gansey saw it was this: if you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #6
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Tears don't become us."
    "What becomes us?"
    "Action.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

  • #7
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn’t all-encompassing, that wasn’t blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she’d had this kind, she didn’t want the other.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

  • #8
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “The head is too wise. The heart is all fire.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

  • #9
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
    Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby

  • #10
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
    "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #11
    Jennifer Niven
    “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. —Ernest Hemingway”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #12
    M.L. Rio
    “The future is wide and wild and full of promise, but it is precarious, too. Seize on every opportunity that comes your way and cling to it, lest it be washed back out to sea.”
    M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

  • #13
    Markus Zusak
    “I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.”
    Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

  • #14
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “May your sky be clear, may your sweet smile be bright and serene, may you be blessed for that moment of bliss that you gave to another lonely, grateful heart! My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

  • #15
    “we thank some people for merely living at the same time as we do. I thank you for the fact that I met you, that I will remember you for all my life!”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

  • #16
    “at this moment a thousand valves have opened in my head, and I must let myself flow in a river of words, or I shall choke”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

  • #17
    Franz Kafka
    “What am I doing here in this endless winter?”
    Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

  • #18
    George Orwell
    “All men are enemies. All animals are comrades”
    George Orwell, Animal Farm

  • #19
    J.D. Salinger
    “I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #20
    Ray Bradbury
    “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #21
    Cormac McCarthy
    “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
    Cormac McCarthy, The Road

  • #22
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
    Cormac McCarthy, The Road

  • #23
    Mitch Albom
    “Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.”
    Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

  • #24
    Mitch Albom
    “Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?”
    Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

  • #25
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Time vanishes behind those who leave this world, and the older I get the more my past years draw together.”
    Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

  • #26
    Patrick Süskind
    “And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille's soul was beginning.”
    Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

  • #27
    Patrick Süskind
    “Man’s misfortune stems from the fact that he does not want to stay in the room where he belongs.”
    Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

  • #28
    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
    “At twenty-nine, life no longer held any brightness for him, but Voltaire supplied him with man-made wings.”
    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man

  • #29
    Mary Oliver
    “it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.”
    Mary Oliver, Red Bird

  • #30
    Hermann Hesse
    “I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
    Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha



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