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Rick Riordan
“You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?"
"Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily.
"Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!"
I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer.”
Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
William Shakespeare
“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
William Shakespeare
Colleen Hoover
“It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us
Emily Brontë
“If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.”
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Terry Pratchett
“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
Ashleigh Brilliant
“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
Ashleigh Brilliant
Mark Twain
“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
Mark Twain
Holly Black
“By you, I am forever undone.”
Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
Charlotte Brontë
“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre
Daniel Keyes
“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
Walt Disney Company
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ”
Walt Disney
Aldous Huxley
“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
Aldous Huxley
Anaïs Nin
“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”
Anais Nin
Maya Angelou
“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
Maya Angelou
Marilyn Monroe
“I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.”
Marilyn Monroe
Katharine Graham
“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
Katharine Graham
Mahatma Gandhi
“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Roy T. Bennett
“Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.”
Roy T. Bennett
“I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.”
R.J. Palacio, Wonder
Margaret Atwood
“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
Albert Camus
“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
Amy Tan
“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses
Charles Bukowski
“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.”
Charles Bukowski
Oscar Wilde
“No good deed goes unpunished.”
Oscar Wilde
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
G.K. Chesterton
“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
G.K. Chesterton
Tennessee Williams
“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
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
Geraldine Brooks
“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
Geraldine Brooks, March
Walt Disney Company
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney