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  • #1
    Elizabeth Wein
    “But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.”
    Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

  • #2
    N.D. Stevenson
    “Did you have a plan?"

    "I thought adrenaline would take over but it did not.”
    N.D. Stevenson, Lumberjanes, Vol. 2: Friendship to the Max

  • #3
    Francesca Zappia
    “Broken people don't hide from their monsters. Broken people let themselves be eaten.”
    Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

  • #4
    Becky Albertalli
    “I don't even know. I'm just so sick of straight people who can't get their shit together.”
    Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

  • #5
    Rory Power
    “We don't get to choose what hurts us”
    Rory Power, Wilder Girls

  • #6
    Elizabeth Wein
    “But a part of me lies buried in lace and roses on a riverbank in France-a part of me is broken off forever. A part of me will be unflyable, stuck in the climb.”
    Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

  • #7
    Suzanne Collins
    “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #8
    Rachel Maddow
    “The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.”
    Rachel Maddow

  • #9
    Jane Austen
    “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
    Jane Austen, Persuasion

  • #10
    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “USE COMMON SENSE. If somebody offers you a thousand dollars for this book, chances are their motives are not pure. Then again, a thousand dollars is a lot of money. Take the money and run.”
    Pseudonymous Bosch, This Isn't What It Looks Like

  • #11
    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “Being an author, is being a dictator. (in a good way)”
    Pseudonymous Bosch

  • #12
    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.”
    Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

  • #13
    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “This book will not harm you unless someone throws it at you which is a possibilty never to be discounted.”
    Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

  • #14
    Jodi Picoult
    “You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #15
    Jodi Picoult
    “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #16
    N.D. Stevenson
    “You can't just go round murdering people. There are rules, Nimona.”
    N.D. Stevenson, Nimona

  • #17
    N.D. Stevenson
    “Halt you villains! Unhand that science!”
    N.D. Stevenson

  • #18
    Nina LaCour
    “I was okay just a moment ago. I will learn how to be okay again.”
    Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

  • #19
    Nina LaCour
    “I thought that it was more likely the opposite. I must have shut grief out. Found it in books. Cried over fiction instead of the truth. The truth was unconfined, unadorned. There was no poetic language to it, no yellow butterflies, no epic floods. There wasn't a town trapped underwater or generations of men with the same name destined to make the same mistakes. The truth was vast enough to drown in.”
    Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

  • #20
    Nina LaCour
    “I wonder if there's a secret current that connects people who have lost something. Not in the way that everyone loses something, but in the way that undoes your life, undoes your self, so that when you look at your face it isn't yours anymore.”
    Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

  • #21
    Nina LaCour
    “She leans over our table and turns the sign in the window so that it says CLOSED on the outside. But on our side, perfectly positioned between Mabel’s place and mine, it says OPEN. If this were a short story, it would mean something.”
    Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

  • #22
    Emily Dickinson
    “Her breast is fit for pearls,
    But I was not a "Diver" -
    Her brow is fit for thrones
    But I have not a crest,
    Her heart is fit for home-
    I- a Sparrow- build there
    Sweet of twigs and twine
    My perennial nest.”
    Emily Dickinson, Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

  • #23
    Emily Dickinson
    “Sweet hour, blessed hour, to carry me to you, and to bring you back to me, long enough to snatch one kiss, and whisper goodbye again.”
    Emily Dickinson, Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson



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