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  • #1
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #2
    Kasie West
    “I don't care when people think I'm an antisocial, controlling bookworm because that's what I am. It's when they interpret me wrong that I have a problem.”
    Kasie West, Pivot Point

  • #3
    Mackenzi Lee
    “God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.”
    Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

  • #4
    Mackenzi Lee
    “Ugh. Feelings.”
    Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

  • #5
    Mackenzi Lee
    “It occurs to me then that perhaps getting my little sister drunk and explaining why I screw boys is not the most responsible move on my part.”
    Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

  • #6
    Mackenzi Lee
    “I wish I could be better for you." She looks over at me, and I duck my head, shame sinking its teeth in. "I'm older and I know I'm supposed to be... an example, I don't know. At least someone you aren't embarrassed of."

    "You do fine."
    "I don't"

    "You're right, you don't. But you're getting better. And that isn't nothing.”
    Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

  • #7
    Mackenzi Lee
    “I’m sorry,” she says. “What for?” “You’ve had a rough go.” “Everyone has a rough go. I’ve had it far easier than most people.” “Maybe. But that doesn’t mean your feelings matter less.”
    Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

  • #8
    Mackenzi Lee
    “Because I want you to know,” she says, “that there is life after survival.”
    Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

  • #9
    “Es ist weit verbreitet, Frauen als Menschen mit Geschlecht zu betrachten und Männer als Menschen: Chefinnen haben einen «weiblichen Führungsstil», Männer einen eigenen.”
    Margarete Stokowski, Untenrum frei

  • #10
    “Würde die Menschheit dieselben Anstrengungen in die Raumfahrt stecken wie die Redaktionen von Frauenzeitschriften in Blowjob-Ratgeber, könnten wir längst zum Kaffeetrinken auf den Mars.”
    Margarete Stokowski, Untenrum frei

  • #11
    “Aber Wut ist nicht dasselbe wie Hass. Hass will Zerstörung, Wut will Veränderung. Hass ist Destruktiv, Wut ist Produktiv.”
    Margarete Stokowski, Untenrum frei

  • #12
    Melissa Albert
    “She talked like a woman who knew more books than people.”
    Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood

  • #13
    Melissa Albert
    “Everyone is supposed to be a combination of nature and nurture, their true selves shaped by years of friends and fights and parents and dreams and things you did too young and things you overheard that you shouldn’t have and secrets you kept or couldn’t and regrets and victories and quiet prides, all the packed-together detritus that becomes what you call your life.”
    Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood

  • #14
    Melissa Albert
    “Life was a big thing to live without a map.”
    Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood

  • #15
    Melissa Albert
    “I remembered less from my own life than I did from the books I read.”
    Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood

  • #16
    Melissa Albert
    “Life never turns out how you imagine it will when you’re young. Everything is smaller than you think, or too big. It all smells a little funny and fits like somebody else’s shirt.”
    Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood

  • #17
    Bob Marley
    “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.
    None but ourselves can free our minds”
    Bob Marley, Redemption Song Sheet Music

  • #18
    “I treasure the books that I can read repeatedly and happily, as well as those that deprive me of sleep because I simply can’t set them down.”
    Wanda Pedersen

  • #19
    Rick Riordan
    “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

  • #20
    Rick Riordan
    “Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?"
    "Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?"
    "Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.”
    Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

  • #21
    Rick Riordan
    “Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot."
    "He's the sun god," I said.
    "That's not what I meant.”
    Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

  • #22
    Rick Riordan
    “Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”
    Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

  • #23
    Rick Riordan
    “People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”
    Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

  • #24
    Rick Riordan
    “What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?"
    "I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you."
    "Why?"
    "Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

  • #25
    Rick Riordan
    “It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

  • #26
    Rick Riordan
    “Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.”
    Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

  • #27
    Rick Riordan
    “It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.”
    Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian



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