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  • #1
    Suzanne Collins
    “All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate him for it.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #2
    “You can't touch me," I whisper. I'm lying, is what I don't tell him. He can touch me, is what I'll never tell him. Please touch me, is what I want to tell him.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #3
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #4
    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #5
    Suzanne Collins
    “It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #6
    Suzanne Collins
    “I roll my eyes. "So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?"
    "No, about six months before that. Right after New Year's. We were in the Hob, eating some slop of Greasy Sae's. And Darius was teasing you about trading a rabbit for one of his kisses. And I realized...I minded.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #7
    Suzanne Collins
    “Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.”
    Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

  • #8
    Suzanne Collins
    “You love me. Real or not real?"
    I tell him, "Real.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #9
    Suzanne Collins
    “But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #10
    Suzanne Collins
    “You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #11
    Suzanne Collins
    “I had to do that. At least once.”
    Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

  • #12
    J.K. Rowling
    “He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy...”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #13
    Dan    Brown
    “History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”
    Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

  • #14
    Veronica Roth
    “Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.'

    'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #15
    Veronica Roth
    “Somewhere inside me is a merciful, forgiving person. Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understand what people are going through, who accepts that people do evil things and that desperation leads them to darker places than they ever imagined. I swear she exists, and she hurts for the repentant boy I see in front of me.

    But if I saw her, I wouldn't recognize her.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #16
    Veronica Roth
    “Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #17
    Veronica Roth
    “Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.”
    Veronica Roth, Insurgent

  • #18
    Veronica Roth
    “People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”
    Veronica Roth, Insurgent

  • #19
    Erasmus
    “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
    Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

  • #20
    Erasmus
    “‎If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.”
    Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

  • #21
    Rick Riordan
    “Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

  • #22
    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

  • #23
    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

  • #24
    Rick Riordan
    “Humans see what they want to see.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

  • #25
    Rick Riordan
    “Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

  • #26
    Rick Riordan
    “The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent this magical flying ram with golden wool, which picked them up in Greece and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important."
    "It was probably important to her.”
    Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

  • #27
    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

  • #28
    Rick Riordan
    “[My mom's] funny that way, celebrating special occasions with blue food. I think it's her way of saying anything is possible. Percy can pass seventh grade. Waffles can be blue. Little miracles like that.”
    Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

  • #29
    Rick Riordan
    “Hermes gazed up at the stars. 'My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet--”
    Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

  • #30
    Rick Riordan
    “Before I could figure out how to apologize for being such an idiot, she tackled me with a hug, then pulled away just as quickly. "I'm glad you're not a guinea pig."
    "Me, too." I hoped my face wasn't as red as it felt.”
    Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters



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