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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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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Patrick Ness
    “Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
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    “I ate and read my book, this particular kind of fantasy novel that I secretly loved. It was my favorite thing to do– eat and read. The world just shut up for a while.”
    ― Laure Eve, The Graces
    tags: eat, enjoy, fantasy, life, read
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    Patrick Ness
    “Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
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    Moïra Fowley-Doyle
    “Do no harm, but take no shit.”
    ― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found
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  • #7
    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm
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    Patrick Ness
    “You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: philosophy, wisdom
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  • #9
    Marissa Meyer
    “One should never save cake for later when it can be eaten now.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Winter
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  • #10
    Patrick Ness
    “There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
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    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
    45233 likes

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  • #13
    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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  • #14
    George Orwell
    “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical
    3854 likes

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  • #15
    George Orwell
    “This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: life, satire, tyranny
    610 likes

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  • #16
    George Orwell
    “Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm, george-orwell, man
    530 likes

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  • #17
    John Green
    “The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    Moïra Fowley-Doyle
    “There are no ghosts; only the dust in the light, our breath and the wind in the quiet, and the feeling that something, or a lot of somethings, are watching us. So maybe there are ghosts after all.”
    ― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season
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    Moïra Fowley-Doyle
    “Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive.”
    ― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season
    tags: accidents, fantasy, heartbreak, hurt, inspiration, inspirational, life, life-goes-on, love, moïra-fowley-doyle, staying-alive, the-accident-season, truth, unique, young-adult
    114 likes

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    Moïra Fowley-Doyle
    “We bite back the things we can't say and we cushion every surface for the inevitable moment when they all come fighting out.”
    ― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season
    tags: literature, moïra-fowley-doyle, the-accident-season, ya, young-adult
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  • #21
    Moïra Fowley-Doyle
    “Be careful what you wish for;
    Not all lost things should be found.”
    ― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found
    tags: finding, lost-things, wish
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    Moïra Fowley-Doyle
    “If you’re not careful you can spend your whole life looking for what you’ve lost.”
    ― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found
    tags: lost-things
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  • #23
    Amanda Lovelace
    “repeat after me:
    you owe
    no one
    your forgiveness.

    - except maybe yourself.”
    ― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One
    tags: inspiration, poetry
    409 likes

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  • #24
    Amanda Lovelace
    “ah, life—
    the thing
    that happens
    to us
    while we’re off
    somewhere else
    blowing on
    dandelions
    & wishing
    ourselves into
    the pages of
    our favorite
    fairy tales.”
    ― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One
    tags: books, fairy-tale, fairy-tales, life
    352 likes

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  • #25
    Amanda Lovelace
    “the only thing
    required
    to be
    a woman
    is to
    identify
    as one.

    - period, end of story.”
    ― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One
    tags: amanda-lovelace, feminism, poetry
    151 likes

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  • #26
    Amanda Lovelace
    “fiction:
    the ocean
    i dive
    headfirst
    into
    when i
    can
    no longer
    breathe
    in
    reality.

    - a mermaid escapist II.”
    ― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One
    tags: fiction
    140 likes

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  • #27
    Amanda Lovelace
    “if
    love
    is a
    battlefield,
    then i
    must have
    forgotten
    all of
    my armor
    at home.

    -a war i never agreed to fight”
    ― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One
    tags: love
    49 likes

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  • #28
    Ruta Sepetys
    “...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray
    tags: between-shades-of-gray, quotes, ruta-sepetys, soviet-occupation, stalin, world-war-ii
    149 likes

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  • #29
    Ruta Sepetys
    “A wrongdoing doesn't give us the right to do wrong.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray
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  • #30
    R.M. Romero
    “No one is ever really lost as long as their story still exists.”
    ― R. M. Romero, The Dollmaker of Krakow
    tags: hope, remembering, storytelling
    33 likes



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