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#1

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

18074 likes

#2

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

tags: dreams, life

48293 likes

#3

“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

tags: better-life-empathy

18357 likes

#4

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: reading

13665 likes

#5

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

tags: ideas, libraries, sarah-j-maas, throne-of-glass

10833 likes

#6

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings

6570 likes

#7

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: renewal, summer

4441 likes

#8

“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: on-writing

2178 likes

#9

“What we think to be our greatest weakness can sometimes be our biggest strength.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

tags: acowar, fantasy, sarah-j-maas, trilogy

1278 likes

#10

“Once upon a time, in a land long since burned to ash, there lived a young princess who loved her kingdom …”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

1168 likes

#11

“Funny how a single word can change everything in your life."
"It is not funny at all. Steel is power. Money is power. But of all the things in all the worlds, words are power.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

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#12

“You and I keep looking for light in the darkness, expecting it to appear. But it already has.” I touch his shoulder. “We’re it, boyo. Broken and cracked and stupid as we are, we’re the light, and we’re spreading.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

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#13

“justice isn’t about fixing the past, it’s about fixing the future. We’re not fighting for the dead. We’re fighting for the living. And for those who aren’t yet born.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

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#14

“Man is no island. We need those who love us. We need those who hate us. We need others to tether us to life, to give us a reason to live, to feel.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

178 likes

#15

“Tell all who will hear, the Reaper sails to Mars. And he calls for an Iron Rain.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

127 likes

#16

“You are the kindest thing that has ever happened to me.”
― Kayla Edwards, City of Gods and Monsters

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#17

“Sweetheart, I am not a devil. I am the devil. Don’t start getting the wrong idea.”
― Kayla Edwards, City of Gods and Monsters

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#18

“I am Cassius Bellona, son of Tiberius, son of Julia, brother of Darrow, Morning Knight of the Solar Republic, and my honor remains.”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

214 likes

#19

“You’re acting like you share a secret language all of a sudden.” “Isn’t that always the case with those who’ve read the same books?”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

54 likes

#20

“We achieve perfection first by acknowledging our failures. We increase understanding first by recognizing our ignorance.”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

33 likes

#21

“The tragedy of the gifted is the belief they are entitled to greatness, Lysander. As a human, you are entitled only to death.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

62 likes

#22

“I will love you until the sun dies. And when it does, I will love you in the darkness.”
― Pierce Brown, Iron Gold

205 likes

#23

“I know it may be impossible to believe now, when everything is dark and broken, but you will survive this pain, little one. Pain is a memory. You will live and you will struggle and you will find joy. And you will remember your family from this breath to your dying days, because love does not fade. Love is the stars, and its light carries on long after death.”
― Pierce Brown, Iron Gold

150 likes

#24

“What is pride without honor? What is honor without truth? Honor is not what you say. It is not what you read.” Romulus thumps his chest. “Honor is what you do.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

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#25

“You know a people have given up when they stop teaching their children.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

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#26

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

tags: katniss, love, peeta, suzanne-collins, the-hunger-games

28527 likes

#27

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories

6614 likes

#28

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: books

4707 likes

#29

“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

tags: fantasy, fear, kvothe, man-s, name, patrick-rothfuss, wind, wise

3402 likes

#30

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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