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“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

“Ignorance is a choice. Hatred is a choice. Violence is a choice. But someone’s existence is never a choice, or a fault, and it’s certainly not a crime. You would be wise to educate yourself.”
― Chris Colfer, A Tale of Magic...

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

“the horror of the unknown is more frightening than any horror you can understand”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts

“Growing up and growing old. Playing. Exploring. Like Pooh and Piglet. And then like the Famous Five. And then like Heidi and Anne of Green Gables. And then like Pandora, opening the great big box of the world and not being afraid, not even caring whether what’s inside is good or bad. Because it’s both. Everything is always both.
But you have to open it to find that out.”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Dessert is the most important meal of the day!”
― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

“lately is has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca...”
― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
'Cats don't have names,' it said.
'No?' said Coraline.
'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“So you’re right, you don’t need me fighting your battles. But if you’ll let me, I’d like to be standing beside you as you fight them.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“But, Papa, the endings are the best part.
Sometimes, sweetheart. But other times, the beginnings are.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“I can't imagine a greater compliment for an author than making the banned book section.”
― Chris Colfer, A Tale of Magic...

“The patient bird gets the worm," Skylene said with a confident nod. "That's another classic phrase."
Tangerina rolled her eyes and pulled her friend aside.
"Skylene, the phrase is 'The early bird gets the worm," she said. "It's supposed to encourage people to wake up early."
"Oh," Skylene said. "But that's not very encouraging for an early worm.”
― Chris Colfer, A Tale of Magic...

“From the moment we're born, women are brainwashed to prioritize motherhood and marriage over intellect and personal fulfillment. We're handed baby dolls and aprons and told our greatest contributions are accomplished in the nursery and the kitchen. But that lie is as damaging as it is degrading, because a kingdom is only as strong as its weakest citizen! And a society with unjust limitations is less likely to prevail than a country of equal opportunity
When a nation segregates any percentage of its population, it only segregates a percentage of its potential! So for the sake of the kingdom, it is time for women to stand together and demand a new government that values every citizen's thoughts, ideas, and morals. Then and only then will our country journey into realms of prosperity it has never seen before.”
― Chris Colfer, A Tale of Magic...

“if we want a better world, we have to be better than the world,”
― Chris Colfer, A Tale of Magic...

“But when someone's hurting, you gotta do something. Always kindness”
― Dan Gemeinhart, The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise

“And every book ever written is about love, really, whether it knows it or not. So, yeah, I know a thing or two about love.”
― Dan Gemeinhart, The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise

“How dangerous will it be?" Stitches asked.
"Extremely," Lucy said.
"Will there be violence?" Sprout asked.
"Definitely."
"And c-c-casualties?" Beebee asked.
"Most likely."
The witches smirked at Lucy and cackled with excitement.
"Say no more," Stitches said. "You had us at dangerous.”
― Chris Colfer, A Tale of Witchcraft...

“Seven didn't hide the books—he burned them!"
"I'm confused," Lucy said. "Why would Seven burn a bunch of books?"
Brystal sighed and shook her head. "Because reading inspires thinking, thinking inspires ideas, ideas inspire change, and nothing threatens a tyrant more than change.”
― Chris Colfer, A Tale of Sorcery...

“There is a powerful difference between feeling apart and feeling a part. There is a world in that space.”
― Dan Gemeinhart, The Midnight Children

“A found family is every bit as beautiful as a born family. Even more so, perhaps. Stories are about choices, after all, and to choose to be family is as wonderful a story as can be told.”
― Dan Gemeinhart, The Midnight Children

“What do you mean to do with Maia when you do find her?” the professor asked that night.
“Take her back to the Keminskys and never let her out of my sight again,” said Miss Minton.
“She may not find it easy.”
“Why on earth not? The Keminskys are the kindest people in the world.”
“Yes. But she has tasted freedom.”
― Eva Ibbotson, Journey to the River Sea

“You don't get a life until you make one worth living.”
― Dan Wells, Fragments

“It was wrong not to be curious, it was wrong not to wonder.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

“She was eleven, after all. She was both even and odd. She was ready to be many things at once—child, grown-up, poet, engineer, botanist, dragon. The list went on.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
― Robert Orben