2026 Reading Challenge

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    Tamora Pierce
    “Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight
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    Tamora Pierce
    “Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Emperor Mage
    tags: everyone, humor, scholar
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    Tamora Pierce
    “Tris: "I was reading."
    Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt."
    Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Briar's Book
    tags: interruption, reading, sandry, talk, tris
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    Tamora Pierce
    “There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart."
    -George to Alanna”
    ― Tamora Pierce, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
    tags: romantic
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    Dodie Smith
    “Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: baths, deeds, depression
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    Christopher Morley
    “There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
    ― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls
    tags: bibliophilia, books
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
    tags: be-yourself, self-expression
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    Diane Duane
    “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
    ― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard
    tags: books, reading
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    Doris Lessing
    “Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
    ― Doris Lessing
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    Suzanne Collins
    “You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
    tags: catching-fire, greasy-sae, suzanne-collins, the-hunger-games
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    Terry Goodkind
    “People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.”
    ― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule
    tags: public-opinion, willful-ignorance, wizard-s-rules
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    Ally Condie
    “Once you want something, everything changes.”
    ― Ally Condie, Matched
    tags: truths
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    Ally Condie
    “We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.”
    ― Ally Condie, Matched
    tags: sad-but-true
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    Ally Condie
    “Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.”
    ― Ally Condie, Matched
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    Ally Condie
    “It's all right to wonder.”
    ― Ally Condie, Matched
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
    tags: identity, pretend
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    Orson Scott Card
    “I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: people, truth, wisdom
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    Laura Hillenbrand
    “His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.”
    ― Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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  • #19
    Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad
    “Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
    tags: humor
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    Richelle Mead
    “You're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other.”
    ― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
    tags: adrian-ivashkov, sydney-sage
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    Amy Tintera
    “He had been willing to die because he refused to take a life.
    But me, I contemplated shooting everyone.”
    ― Amy Tintera, Reboot
    tags: reboot, wren
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    Richelle Mead
    “I had never thought I could love another person this much. I also never thought I’d live in such fear of losing another person. Was this how everyone in love felt? Did they all cling tightly to their beloved and wake up terrified in the middle of the night, afraid of being alone? Was that an inevitable way of life when you loved so deeply? Or was it just those of us who walked on a precipice who lived in such panic?”
    ― Richelle Mead, The Fiery Heart
    tags: adrian-ivashkov, bloodlines-series, love, richelle-mead, sydney-sage, the-fiery-heart
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    Kiera Cass
    “It was almost comforting, this mutual acceptance of our secrets.”
    ― Kiera Cass, The Elite
    tags: friendship, secrets
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  • #24
    R.L. LaFevers
    “Why be the sheep when you can be the wolf?”
    ― R.L. LaFevers, Grave Mercy
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    R.L. LaFevers
    “Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?”
    ― R.L. LaFevers, Grave Mercy
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone
    tags: shadow-and-bone, the-grisha
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    Richelle Mead
    “I tried to be a better person for her– but it was to impress her, to get her to want me. But when I’m around you, I want to be better because… well, because it feels right. Because I want to. You make me want to become something greater than myself. I want to excel. You inspire me in every act, every word, every glance. I look at you, and you’re like… like light made into flesh. […] You have no clue how beautiful you are or how brightly you shine.”
    ― Richelle Mead, The Golden Lily
    tags: adrian-ivashkov, sydney-sage
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    Jessica Spotswood
    “We don't get to choose who we love. Or stop loving them when they're difficult.”
    ― Jessica Spotswood, Born Wicked
    tags: cate, family, love
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  • #29
    Gennifer Albin
    “Take the happiness you can, even if it's only a little.”
    ― Gennifer Albin, Crewel
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    Marissa Meyer
    “Imagine there was a cure, but finding it would cost you everything. It would completely ruin your life. What would you do?”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Cinder
    tags: awesomeness, cinder, marissa-meyer
    477 likes



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