February 2012
252 posts
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“Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were...”
– Ransom Riggs (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children)
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“‘Stories are important,’ the monster said. ‘They can be more...”
– Patrick Ness (A Monster Calls)
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“How many times have I told you? Polite persons do not take supper in the nude.”
– Ransom Riggs (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children)
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“Little boys should never go to bed… they wake up one day older.”
– Finding Neverland
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“I slammed out of the house and started walking, heading nowhere in particular....”
– Ransom Riggs (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children)
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“Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and...”
– Patrick Ness (A Monster Calls)
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“People always say ‘life is full of choices’, no one ever mentions...”
– Anastasia
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“I thought about how my great-grandparents had starved to death. I thought about...”
– Ransom Riggs (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children)
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“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many...”
– Shel Silverstein
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“I wish I had a hundred years,” she said, very quietly. “A hundred...”
– Patrick Ness (A Monster Calls)
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“And that is how someone who is unusally susceptible to nightmares, night...”
– Ransom Riggs (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children)
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“There was once an invisible man, the monster continued, though Conor kept his...”
– Patrick Ness (A Monster Calls)
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“I did love her, of course, but mostly because loving your mom is mandatory, not...”
– Ransom Riggs (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children)
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“‘You do not write your life with words,’ the monster said....”
– Patrick Ness (A Monster Calls)
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“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
– Shel Silverstein (The Giving Tree)
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“We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too...”
– Ransom Riggs (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children)
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“War is like a monster,” he says, almost to himself. “War is the...”
– Patrick Ness (The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1))
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“I asked the Zebra,
are you black with white stripes?
Or white with black...”
– Shel Silverstein
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“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary....”
– Ransom Riggs (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children)
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“It’s not that you should never love something so much that it can control...”
– ― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer
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“When someone won’t let you in, eventually you stop knocking.”
– Ransom Riggs (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children)
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“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the...”
– Shel Silverstein
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““Four lines, and the world went quiet.
‘I’m sorry for...”
– Patrick Ness (A Monster Calls)
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“…so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t...”
– Ransom Riggs (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children)
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“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
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“My tears are like the quiet drift of petals from some magic rose; and all my...”
– Dylan Thomas
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“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it,...”
– ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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“I accept the hard reality that I maybe might possibly be just the slightest...”
– Sarah Ockler (Twenty Boy Summer)
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“I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question:...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
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“That night a freezing wind blew in. When the children woke up, they went to the...”
– Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)
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“They never say to you, ‘What does his voice sound like? What games does he...”
– ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles...”
– Robert Frost
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“I feel too much. That’s what’s going on.’
‘Do you think...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
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“Paris is always a good idea.”
– Audrey Hepburn
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“We could do it, you know.”
“What?”
“Leave the...”
– Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
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“Weeping is not the same thing as crying, It takes your whole body to weep, and...”
– Sarah Ockler (Twenty Boy Summer)
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“Just because you’re an atheist, that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood...”
– ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made...”
– — Hunter S. Thompson
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“I will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a...”
– Lemony Snicket
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“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
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“The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.”
– Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)
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“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
– ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at...”
– Helen Keller
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““I sit beside the fire and think
I sit beside the fire and think
Of all...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
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“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
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“Sometimes you gotta just take things for what they are and appreciate them, not...”
– Sarah Ockler (Twenty Boy Summer)
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“In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear...”
– ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight
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“In the midst of life, we are in death.”
– Agatha Christie (And Then There Were None)
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“…An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was...”
– Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)