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  • #1
    “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

  • #2
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #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

  • #4
    Ethan Hawke
    “Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.”
    Ethan Hawke, Ash Wednesday

  • #5
    Markus Zusak
    “I'm not the messenger at all.
    I'm the message. ”
    Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

  • #6
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, All These Things I've Done

  • #7
    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

  • #8
    Markus Zusak
    “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #9
    Brandon Sanderson
    “What is belief—what is faith—if you don't continue it after failure?”
    Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

  • #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

  • #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

  • #12
    Erin Hunter
    “Sandgorse chose his own destiny. Why should he get to choose yours, too?”
    Erin Hunter, Tallstar's Revenge

  • #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

  • #14
    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

  • #15
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

  • #16
    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

  • #17
    Drew Karpyshyn
    “Honor is for the living. Dead is dead.”
    Drew Karpyshyn, Path of Destruction

  • #18
    Markus Zusak
    “I am haunted by humans.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #19
    Markus Zusak
    “You are going to die.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #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

  • #21
    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

  • #22
    Markus Zusak
    “There are pieces of me on the ground.”
    Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

  • #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

  • #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

  • #25
    Markus Zusak
    “It feels nice to emerge from the lies.”
    Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: lies, truth

  • #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

  • #27
    Markus Zusak
    “Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #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

  • #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

  • #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



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