2026 Reading Challenge

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    “Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain...you keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize this is it; the dust is your life going on. If happy comes along--that weird, unbearable delight that's actual happy--I think you have to grab it while you can. You take what you can get, 'cause it's here, and then...gone.”
    ― Joss Whedon, Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 4: Unstoppable
    tags: astonishing-x-men, joss-whedon, shadowcat
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: clever, desperation, hope, inspiration, misattributed, tenacity
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  • #3
    Emily Murdoch
    “I take my hand back, like a leaf letting go. It hurts too much to hang on. So why does it hurt so much to let go?”
    ― Emily Murdoch, If You Find Me
    tags: emotional, hurt, letting-go, pain
    54 likes

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  • #4
    Ethan Hawke
    “Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.”
    ― Ethan Hawke, Ash Wednesday
    tags: inspirational
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  • #5
    Markus Zusak
    “I'm not the messenger at all.
    I'm the message. ”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
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  • #6
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.”
    ― Gabrielle Zevin, All These Things I've Done
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    Maggie Stiefvater
    “I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing they weren't the same thing.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
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    Markus Zusak
    “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: power-of-words
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  • #9
    Brandon Sanderson
    “What is belief—what is faith—if you don't continue it after failure?”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire
    tags: belief, faith
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  • #10
    Erin Hunter
    “We all have our flaws. But we overcome them. And sometimes, it's our flaws that make us who we are.”
    ― Erin Hunter, Tallstar's Revenge
    tags: flaws, inspirational, warrior-cats, warriors
    86 likes

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  • #11
    Emily Murdoch
    “I know so many words. It's perplexing to come across so many I don't.”
    ― Emily Murdoch, If You Find Me
    tags: words
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  • #12
    Erin Hunter
    “Sandgorse chose his own destiny. Why should he get to choose yours, too?”
    ― Erin Hunter, Tallstar's Revenge
    tags: destiny, warrior-cats, warriors
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  • #13
    Markus Zusak
    “When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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    P.A. Minyard
    “Love isn't something you take from one to give to another. Love is to be shared among all; the more people we have in our family, the more love there will be to share.”
    ― P.A. Minyard, The Beloved
    tags: love, romance
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    Maggie Stiefvater
    “People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
    tags: kindness, people, ya
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    Alex Flinn
    “The word felt good, liberating. So, I repeat it. "Fuck." Then, again. And again. Because it made me someone else, someone normal and happy, someone who used words like that, like St. John. I repeated it, over and over until she walked away, wounded. Then, I was glad. And still, I kept repeating it, because that was the only thing that kept me from crying.”
    ― Alex Flinn, Breaking Point: A Gripping YA Novel About Elite School Pressure, Manipulation, and Dangerous Choices
    tags: emotional, painful, sad
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    Drew Karpyshyn
    “Honor is for the living. Dead is dead.”
    ― Drew Karpyshyn, Path of Destruction
    tags: fiction, science-fiction, star-wars
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    Markus Zusak
    “I am haunted by humans.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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  • #19
    Markus Zusak
    “You are going to die.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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  • #20
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “It seemed like you oughta pick the sort of person you would be, no matter what your parents were like.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
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    Maggie Stiefvater
    “His face went somber for half a second, and then it dissolved into an absolutely wonderful and fearless laugh. The old Ronan Lynch's laugh. No, it was better than that one, because this new one had just a hint of darkness beneath it. This Ronan knew there was crap in the world, but he was laughing anyway.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves
    tags: laughter, pain
    36 likes

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    Markus Zusak
    “There are pieces of me on the ground.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: broken, emotions
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  • #23
    Drew Karpyshyn
    “Two there shall be; no more, no less. One to embody the dark side, the other to crave it.”
    ― Drew Karpyshyn, Path of Destruction
    tags: science-fiction
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  • #24
    Markus Zusak
    “I was always reading books when I should have been doing math and the rest of it.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: books, math, reading
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  • #25
    Markus Zusak
    “It feels nice to emerge from the lies.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: lies, truth
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  • #26
    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
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  • #27
    Markus Zusak
    “Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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  • #28
    Markus Zusak
    “I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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  • #29
    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”
    ― Markus Zusak
    tags: book
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  • #30
    George R.R. Martin
    “You are quick, for a dancing master, said Ser Meryn. You are slow, for a knight, Syrio replied.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: asoiaf, humor, knight, meryn, syrio
    7 likes



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