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    Steven Moffat
    “People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.”
    ― Steven Moffat
    tags: doctor-who, humor, time-travel
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    Diana Wynne Jones
    “You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.”
    ― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle
    tags: humor, mess, pigsty
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    Derek Landy
    “I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.”
    ― Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant
    tags: funny
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    Leonard Nimoy
    “Live Long and Prosper”
    ― Leonard Nimoy
    tags: benediction, inspirational, life, motivation
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul.”
    ― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: anne-of-the-island
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Has anyone noticed this whole city is looking for us, mad at us, or wants to kill us?"
    "So?" said Kaz.
    "Well, usually it's just half the city.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
    tags: crooked-kingdom, jesper-fahey, kaz-brekker
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    Laini Taylor
    “You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters."

    “Beautiful and full of monsters?"

    “All the best stories are.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: fantasy, stories, storytelling, young-adult
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    Neal Shusterman
    “Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Scythe
    tags: fear, hope, motivation, powerful
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    Laini Taylor
    “It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: dreaming, dreams, goals, impossible
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    Jennifer A. Nielsen
    “I never denied being a fool. That's the difference between us.”
    ― Jennifer A. Nielsen
    tags: sage, the-false-prince
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “You’re stupid about a lot of things, Wylan, but you are not stupid. And if I ever hear you call yourself a moron again, I’m going to tell Matthias you tried to kiss Nina. With tongue.”
    Wylan wiped his nose on his sleeve. “He’ll never believe it.”
    “Then I’ll tell Nina you tried to kiss Matthias. With tongue.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
    tags: jesper-fahey, wylan-van-eck
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    Neal Shusterman
    “Therin lies the paradox of the profession,' Faraday said. 'Those who wish to have the job should not have it...and those who would most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Scythe
    tags: contest, death, neal-shusterman, scythe
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    Neal Shusterman
    “Everyone is guilty of something, and everyone still harbors a memory of childhood innocence, no matter how many layers of life wrap around it. Humanity is innocent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Scythe
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “You don’t look like a monster.”
    “I’ll tell you a secret, Hanna. The really bad monsters never look like monsters.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
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    Jay Kristoff
    “Am I not merciful?”
    ― Jay Kristoff, Illuminae
    tags: aidan
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    Jennifer A. Nielsen
    “A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.”
    ― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince
    tags: sage, the-false-prince
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    Maile Meloy
    “I guess if everyone was blind, and you tried to describe vision to them, it would sound crazy and made up.”
    ― Maile Meloy, The Apprentices
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    Neal Shusterman
    “To deny humanity the lesson of consequences would be a mistake.
    And I do not make mistakes.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead
    tags: artificial-intelligence, humanity
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    Steven Moffat
    “The Doctor: Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And don't blink.”
    ― Steven Moffat
    tags: blink, doctor-who
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “This action will have no echo.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
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    Derek Landy
    “Doors are for people with no imagination.”
    ― Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant
    tags: creativity
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    “Yeah, listen, listen, gotta dash, things happening--
    well, four things--
    well, four things and a lizard.”
    ― The Doctor David Tennant
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    Diana Wynne Jones
    “In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes.”
    ― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle
    tags: fairy-tale, once-upon-a-time
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    “I'm burning up a sun to say goodbye”
    ― The Doctor (David Tennant
    tags: doomsday
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    Laini Taylor
    “He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: laini-taylor, read, reading, strange-the-dreamer
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    Amie Kaufman
    “The universe owes you nothing...It has already given you everything, after all. It was here long before you, and it will go on long after you. The only way it will remember you is if you do something worthy of remembrance.”
    ― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
    tags: fear
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    Marissa Meyer
    “Yeah, but broken isn't the same as unfixable.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Winter
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  • #29
    “I don't want to go”
    ― David Tennant
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  • #30
    Victoria Schwab
    “Monsters, monsters, big and small,
    "They're gonna come and eat you all.
    Corsai, Corsai, tooth and claw,
    Shadow and bone will eat you raw.
    Malchai, Malchai, sharp and sly,
    Smile and bite and drink you dry.
    Sunai, Sunai, eyes like coal,
    Sing you a song and steal your soul.
    Monsters, monsters, big and small,
    They're gonna come and eat you all!”
    ― Victoria schwab, This Savage Song
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