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  • #1
    “I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
    In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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  • #2
    V.E. Schwab
    “I'm not going to die," she said. "Not till I've seen it."
    "Seen what?"
    Her smile widened. "Everything.”
    ― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic
    tags: kell, lila
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  • #3
    Cassandra Clare
    “It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: humor, jace-wayland, sarcasm
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  • #4
    Sarah J. Maas
    “You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
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  • #5
    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books
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  • #6
    Cassandra Clare
    “The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: city-of-bones, jace-wayland
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  • #8
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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  • #9
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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  • #10
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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  • #11
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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  • #12
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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  • #13
    Suzanne Collins
    “You love me. Real or not real?"
    I tell him, "Real.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: katniss, love, peeta, suzanne-collins, the-hunger-games
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  • #14
    Cassandra Clare
    “A very magnanimous statement, Gideon,” said Magnus.
    “I’m Gabriel.”
    Magnus waved a hand. “All Lightwoods look the same to me.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
    tags: clockwork-princess, gabriel-lightwood, magnus-bane
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  • #15
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
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  • #16
    Rick Riordan
    “With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
    tags: nico
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  • #17
    George R.R. Martin
    “When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: friendship, loneliness
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  • #18
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
    tags: genya
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  • #19
    Casey McQuiston
    “Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.”
    ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
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  • #20
    Casey McQuiston
    “Sometimes you just jump and hope it's not a cliff.”
    ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
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  • #21
    Casey McQuiston
    “The phrase 'see attached bibliography' is the single sexiest thing you have ever written to me.”
    ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
    tags: books, prince-henry, reading
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  • #22
    Leigh Bardugo
    “The Darkling slumped back in his chair. “Fine,” he said with a weary shrug. “Make me your villain.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone
    tags: the-darkling
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  • #23
    Leigh Bardugo
    “When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
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  • #24
    Leigh Bardugo
    “No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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  • #25
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Scheming face,” Inej murmured.
    Jesper nodded. “Definitely.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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  • #26
    Sarah J. Maas
    “To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
    Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
    tags: a-court-of-mist-and-fury, acomaf, feyre, rhysand
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  • #27
    Sarah J. Maas
    “I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
    I was a survivor, and I was strong.
    I would not be weak, or helpless again
    I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
    tags: a-court-of-mist-and-fury, acomaf, feyre
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  • #28
    Becky Albertalli
    “Imagine going about your day knowing someone’s carrying you in their mind. That has to be the best part of being in love- the feeling of having a home in some else’s brain.”
    ― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat
    tags: love
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  • #29
    Erin Morgenstern
    “We are all stardust and stories.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea
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  • #30
    Donna Tartt
    “Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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  • #31
    Donna Tartt
    “Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
    tags: francis-abernathy, the-secret-history
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