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  • #1
    Tim O'Brien
    “Zapped while zipping.”
    Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

  • #2
    Markus Zusak
    “There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #3
    Robin Sharma
    “Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves.”
    Robin S. Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny

  • #4
    Philippa Gregory
    “If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other.”
    Philippa Gregory, The White Queen

  • #5
    N.D. Wilson
    “Henry's in the cupbord,' Richard said. 'I opted to sit this one out. Would it be incovenient for me to stay?”
    N.D. Wilson, 100 Cupboards

  • #6
    “There are no endings, and there are no fairy tales. But the pages keep being written. Time soldiers on.”
    James Patterson and Jill Dembowski, Witch & Wizard: The Fire - Free Preview: The First 34 Chapters

  • #7
    Lewis Carroll
    “Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #8
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “I never change, I simply become more myself.”
    Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

  • #9
    Alice Walker
    “I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.”
    Alice Walker, The Color Purple

  • #10
    Alice Walker
    “You saying God vain? I ast.
    Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
    Alice Walker, The Color Purple

  • #11
    Orson Scott Card
    “Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
    Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

  • #12
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #15
    Lauren Oliver
    “Love: It will kill you and save you, both”
    Lauren Oliver, Delirium

  • #16
    Lauren Oliver
    “Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.”
    Lauren Oliver, Delirium

  • #17
    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

  • #18
    Robin Sharma
    “So take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it.”
    Robin S. Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny

  • #19
    Dr. Seuss
    “Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
    Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

  • #20
    Jasper Fforde
    “If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
    Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

  • #21
    John Grisham
    “In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
    John Grisham

  • #22
    Gary Paulsen
    “If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
    The book needs you.”
    Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

  • #23
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #24
    Ben Jonson
    “Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
    You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
    Best, while you have it, use your breath;
    There is no drinking after death.”
    Ben Jonson

  • #25
    Tom Bodett
    “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
    Tom Bodett



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