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  • #1
    “Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.â€� I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”
    Tina Fey, Bossypants

  • #2
    Dylan Thomas
    “Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
    Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

  • #3
    Harper Lee
    “The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #4
    “Do the things you used to talk about doing but never did. Know when to let go and when to hold on tight. Stop rushing. Don't be intimidated to say it like it is. Stop apologizing all the time. Learn to say no, so your yes has some oomph. Spend time with the friends who lift you up, and cut loose the ones who bring you down. Stop giving your power away. Be more concerned with being interested than being interesting. Be old enough to appreciate your freedom, and young enough to enjoy it. Finally know who you are.”
    Kristin Armstrong

  • #5
    Nicholas Sparks
    “She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues. ”
    Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

  • #6
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #7
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #8
    Astrid Lindgren
    “Give the children love, more love and still more love â€� and the common sense will come by itself.”
    Astrid Lindgren

  • #9
    Christopher Paolini
    “Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
    Christopher Paolini

  • #10
    Elizabeth George Speare
    “What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree...”
    Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

  • #11
    Norman Mailer
    “I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
    Norman Mailer

  • #12
    Sherman Alexie
    “Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.”
    Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

  • #13
    Sherman Alexie
    “If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.”
    Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

  • #14
    Sherman Alexie
    “Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together.

    You can do it.

    I can do it.

    Let's do it.”
    Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

  • #15
    Robert Frost
    “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.”
    Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

  • #16
    Keri Hulme
    “You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
    Keri Hulme, The Bone People

  • #17
    Mario Vargas Llosa
    “Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...”
    Mario Vargas Llosa

  • #18
    Markus Zusak
    “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #19
    Markus Zusak
    “A DEFINITION NOT FOUND
    IN THE DICTIONARY
    Not leaving: an act of trust and love,
    often deciphered by children”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #20
    René Descartes
    “I think; therefore I am.”
    Rene Descartes

  • #21
    William Wordsworth
    “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
    William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

  • #22
    Nellie Bly
    “Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”
    Nellie Bly

  • #23
    Italo Calvino
    “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
    Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

  • #24
    Ralph Ellison
    “The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.”
    Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

  • #25
    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    William Faulkner

  • #26
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Reading brings us unknown friends”
    Honore de Balzac

  • #27
    Audre Lorde
    “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
    audre lorde

  • #28
    Fred Rogers
    “We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.”
    Fred Rogers



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