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  • #1
    “People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer.”
    Andrew Smith

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #2
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #3
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #5
    “You know, nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was. Things just expand and contract. Like the universe, like breathing. But you'll never fill your lungs up with the same air twice. Sometimes, it would be cool if you could pause and rewind and do over. But I think anyone would get tired of that after one or two times.”
    Andrew Smith

  • #7
    “The same words that make the horrible things come also tell the quieter things about love.”
    Andrew Smith

  • #8
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #9
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #10
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #12
    George Orwell
    “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #13
    George Orwell
    “You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #14
    M.T. Anderson
    “The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.”
    M.T. Anderson, Feed

  • #15
    M.T. Anderson
    “…It’s like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic, so we get less and less varied as people, more simple. So the corps make everything even simpler. And it goes on and on.”
    M.T. Anderson, Feed
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  • #16
    M.T. Anderson
    “Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.”
    M.T. Anderson, Feed
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  • #17
    Neal Shusterman
    “My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There’s no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.”
    Neal Shusterman, Scythe

  • #18
    Neal Shusterman
    “Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator.”
    Neal Shusterman, Scythe

  • #19
    Neal Shusterman
    “Everyone is guilty of something, and everyone still harbors a memory of childhood innocence, no matter how many layers of life wrap around it. Humanity is innocent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true.”
    Neal Shusterman, Scythe



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