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  • #1
    Adam Mansbach
    “I know you're not thirsty. That's bullshit. Stop lying. Lie the fuck down, my darling, and sleep.”
    Adam Mansbach, Go the Fuck to Sleep

  • #2
    Gertrude Chandler Warner
    “One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from.”
    Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

  • #3
    Thi Bui
    “Maybe being their child simply means that I will always feel the weight of their past.”
    Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do

  • #4
    Richard Castle
    “There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people: psychopaths and mystery writers.”
    Richard Castle

  • #5
    Richard Castle
    “As a writer, I can think of no greater terror than confronting a blank page, except perhaps the terror of being shot at.”
    Richard Castle, Naked Heat

  • #6
    Veronica Roth
    “Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.”
    Veronica Roth, Insurgent

  • #7
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #8
    Eoin Colfer
    “I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.”
    Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

  • #9
    Eoin Colfer
    “Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
    Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

  • #10
    Eoin Colfer
    “It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”
    Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

  • #11
    David Sedaris
    “As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.”
    David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.

  • #12
    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #13
    Ocean Vuong
    “The most beautiful part of your body
    is where it’s headed. & remember,
    loneliness is still time spent
    with the world.”
    Ocean Vuong

  • #14
    Ocean Vuong
    “How sweet. That rain. How something that lives only to fall can be nothing but sweet.”
    Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #16
    Wendy Mass
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”
    Wendy Mass, The Candymakers

  • #17
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

  • #18
    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #19
    Thi Bui
    “Proximity and closeness are not the same.”
    Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do

  • #20
    Thi Bui
    “This — not any particular piece of Vietnamese culture — is my inheritance, the inexplicable need and extraordinary ability to run when the shit hits the fan. My refugee reflex.”
    Thi Bui

  • #21
    Thi Bui
    “That first week of parenting was the hardest week of my life, and the only time I ever felt called upon to be HEROIC.”
    Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do

  • #22
    Thi Bui
    “How much of me is my own, and how much is stamped into my blood and bone, predestined?”
    Thi Bui

  • #23
    Thi Bui
    “I remember being excited about seeing snow for the very first time.”
    Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do

  • #24
    Shigeru Miyamoto
    “What if everything you see is more than what you see--the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it is really a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things.”
    Shigeru Miyamoto

  • #25
    Shigeru Miyamoto
    “A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.”
    Shigeru Miyamoto

  • #26
    Shigeru Miyamoto
    “Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock n' roll.”
    Shigeru Miyamoto



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