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#1

“It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.”
― Soman Chainani, A World Without Princes

tags: a-world-without-princes, ever, fairy-tales, favorite, never, sge, soman-chainani

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#2

“Agatha: "If you say anything smug or stuck-up or shallow, I'll have Reaper follow you home."
Sophie: "But then I can't talk!”
― Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil

tags: agatha, funny, sophie, vanity

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#3

“I believe that the world could be different. I believe that our destinies aren't chains around our necks, but wings that give us flight.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

tags: chains, destiny, fate, wings

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#4

“Tales are slippery, her mother had often said. The truth of a story depends on who is telling it.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

tags: aru-shah, mother, pandava, stories, story-telling, tales, truth

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#5

“When all other kinds of payment fail, never forget that a drop of kindness has far more weight more than gold.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the City of Gold

tags: aru-shah, gold, kindness

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#6

“Don’t let a curse define who you can and can’t be. Only you have the power to decide that.”
― Graci Kim, The Last Fallen Star

tags: riley-oh, the-last-fallen-star

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#7

“But jealous, bitter people don’t suddenly find that those feelings go away when what they envy becomes theirs. They simply find something else to be jealous and bitter about, because it was never about what the other person had. It’s about what they themselves lack.”
― Michelle Harrison, A Pinch of Magic: Three sisters race to break a generations-old curse trapping them on Crowstone in this spellbinding middle grade fantasy

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#8

“We're too busy anticipating our Ever Afters to find the happy endings along the way.”
― Soman Chainani, Rise of the School for Good and Evil

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#9

“It was one of the things that she liked best when her mother told her the stories: villains could be heroic, and heroes could do evil.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

tags: aru-shah, evil, good, heroes, mother, pandava, stories, villains

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#10

“There is light within us all, as there is darkness within us all. These two absolutes make us whole. This is the way of the universe.”
― Graci Kim, The Last Fallen Star

tags: light-and-darkness

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#11

“If you don't see something beautiful, change your viewpoint.”
― Erin Entrada Kelly, You Go First

tags: fiction

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#12

“No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

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#13

“Sometimes life calls on you even when you don't raise your hand”
― Erin Entrada Kelly, Hello, Universe

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#14

“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

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#15

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: albus-dumbledore, courage, friends

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#16

“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: pain

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#17

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: humanity, kindness, relationships

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#18

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

tags: fear-unknown

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#19

“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

tags: forgiveness

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#20

“We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: fate, harry-potter, inspirational

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#21

“You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that be must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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#22

“And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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#23

“You burn the paper, but not the words. You silence the words, but not the thoughts. You kill the thoughts only if you kill the man. And you will find that his thoughts rise again in the minds of others - twice as strong as before.”
― Linda Sue Park, When My Name Was Keoko

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#24

“Better to cry wolf over and over than never to cry wolf at all.”
― Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

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#25

“When I was younger, I loved graveyards. They weren't spooky so much as mysterious. Each tombstone another story to uncover. Another life to learn about.

Now that I'm older - I won't say how old - I hate graveyards. The only life - or rather death - I see in the tombstones is my own.”
― Pseudonymous Bosch, If You're Reading This, It's Too Late

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#26

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: dumbledore

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#27

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: truth

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#28

“Nothing is more tragic than loving someone to the depths of your soul and knowing they cannot and will not ever love you back.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

tags: love-quotes

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#29

“Things can turn out differently, Apollo. That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

tags: wise

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#30

“It's not how long you live that matters. It's what you live for.”
― Rick Riordan, The Dark Prophecy

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