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  • #1
    Alison Croggon
    “...she felt as if her entire body were glowing with the taste of sunlight, of wind blowing in wide spaces and trees reaching their burdened arms to boundless skies.”
    Alison Croggon, The Naming

  • #2
    Alison Croggon
    “The weather was clear and still, and the countless stars opened above them, seeming like brilliant cold fruits that Maerad could simply pick out of the sky.”
    Alison Croggon, The Riddle

  • #3
    Be glad. Be good. Be brave.
    “Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
    Eleanor Hodgman Porter

  • #4
    “Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”
    Garth Nix, Sabriel

  • #4
    “Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.”
    Garth Nix, Sabriel

  • #5
    Yann Martel
    “To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #6
    Jim  Butcher
    “It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.”
    Jim Butcher, Fool Moon
    tags: fear

  • #7
    E.E. Cummings
    “I will take the sun in my mouth
    and leap into the ripe air
    Alive
    with closed eyes
    to dash against darkness”
    E.E. Cummings, Poems, 1923-1954

  • #9
    Louise Rennison
    “When girls walk home we put on lippy and makeup. We chat. Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks. But that is it. Perfectly normal behavior.”
    Louise Rennison, On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God
    tags: humor

  • #10
    Louise Rennison
    “Unbelievable! I said, "What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties?”
    Louise Rennison, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

  • #11
    Margaret Mead
    “I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
    Margaret Mead

  • #12
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #13
    Joseph Conrad
    “It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
    Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands

  • #14
    Ishmael Beah
    “Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ”
    Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

  • #15
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #16
    Markus Zusak
    “Personally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see - the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same, and a sky to slowly suck on. It takes the edge off the stress. It helps me relax.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #18
    Markus Zusak
    “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #19
    Markus Zusak
    “A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #20
    Markus Zusak
    “People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spot blues. Murky darkness. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them.”
    Marcus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #21
    Markus Zusak
    “It’s a small story really, about, among other things:

    * A girl
    * Some words
    * An accordionist
    * Some fanatical Germans
    * A Jewish fist fighter
    * And quite a lot of thievery”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #22
    Sarah Vowell
    “Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
    Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

  • #23
    Nalo Hopkinson
    “Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.”
    Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine

  • #24
    Jane Austen
    “Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #25
    Carolyn Kizer
    “What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.”
    Carolyn Kizer

  • #26
    John Banville
    “The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
    John Banville, The Sea

  • #27
    Joyce Kilmer
    “I think that I shall never see
    A poem lovely as a tree. ”
    Joyce Kilmer, Trees & Other Poems

  • #28
    George Saunders
    “That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.”
    George Saunders

  • #29
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I like good strong words that mean something…”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #30
    James Agee
    “Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?”
    James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

  • #31
    Christopher Paolini
    “A solitary finger of light fell upon it, illuminating motes of golden dust floating in the air.”
    Christopher Paolini, Eragon



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