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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    Patrick Ness
    Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
    Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

  • #3
    Nova Ren Suma
    “Ruby’s stories didn’t have morals. They meant one thing in the light and one thing in the dark and another thing entirely when she was wearing sunglasses.”
    Nova Ren Suma, Imaginary Girls

  • #4
    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #5
    Jane Austen
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

  • #6
    Jane Austen
    “Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.”
    Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice

  • #7
    Gayle Forman
    “I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”
    Gayle Forman, If I Stay

  • #8
    Gayle Forman
    “Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
    Gayle Forman, If I Stay

  • #9
    Veronica Roth
    “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #10
    Veronica Roth
    “A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #11
    Veronica Roth
    “I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #12
    Veronica Roth
    “Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #13
    Veronica Roth
    “...there is power in self-sacrifice.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #14
    Moira Young
    “Yer in my blood, Saba, he says. Yer in my head. Yer in my breath, yer in my bones...gawd help me, yer everywhere. You have bin since the first moment I set eyes on you.”
    Moira Young, Blood Red Road

  • #15
    Moira Young
    “Ever heard of the rule of three? he shouts as we run.
    No!
    If you save somebody's life three times, their life belongs to you. You saved my life today, that makes once. Save it twice more an I'm all yers.”
    Moira Young, Blood Red Road

  • #16
    Moira Young
    “Lugh goes first always first an I follow on behind.
    An that's fine.
    That's right.
    That's how it's meant to be.”
    Moira Young, Blood Red Road

  • #17
    Gayle Forman
    “That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition
    it is.”
    Gayle Forman, Where She Went

  • #18
    James Dashner
    “I've been shucked and gone to heaven.”
    James Dashner, The Maze Runner

  • #19
    Khaled Hosseini
    “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #20
    Lauren Oliver
    “Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.
    But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”
    Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

  • #21
    Lauren Oliver
    “I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took”
    Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

  • #22
    Beth Revis
    “Power isn’t control at all — power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.”
    Beth Revis, Across the Universe

  • #23
    Beth Revis
    “I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one.”
    Beth Revis, Across the Universe

  • #24
    Khaled Hosseini
    “yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism”
    Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

  • #25
    Orson Scott Card
    “Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.”
    Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

  • #26
    Patrick Ness
    “It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.
    It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.
    It's not a weakness.
    It's your best strength.”
    Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

  • #27
    Veronica Rossi
    “She looked up. “A world of nevers under a never sky.”
    She fit in well then, he thought. A girl who never shut up.”
    Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky

  • #28
    Patrick Ness
    “But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again. ”
    Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

  • #29
    Patrick Ness
    “War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.”
    Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

  • #30
    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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