"I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful."

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Jean Ingelow

Literature

1820–1897

"Mopsa the Fairy" at A Celebration of Women Writers"

"The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment."

"I OWE Christianity a debt, and so, I believe, does the world we have lived in for the last 2000 years."

"A people always ends by resembling its shadow."

"I feel like, as a person of color, I’ve always been kind of doing the work against the tide…I feel like change is coming, and change sometimes comes too slow for a lot of us. But it comes."

"Because I’ve got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding."“Why are they all high-calorie foods?"

"The Scriptorium: Angela Carter, by Jeff VanderMeer"

"Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie."

"If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution."

🇺🇸Margaret Peterson Haddix

Literature

b. 1964

"Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them."

"What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?"

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🇺🇸Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Literature

1844–1911

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🇺🇸Frances Hodgson Burnett

Literature

1849–1924

"Ben Weatherstaff says he is so conceited he would rather have stones thrown at him than not be noticed."

"But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for."

"But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you."

"Life is a reaching out for something or someone. That is its definition."

"I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them"

"Visiting the Emerson Girls by Frank Albrecht"

"If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love."

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🇺🇸Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Literature

1965–2017

"I tend to believe whatever you decide to look for you will find, whatever you beckon will eventually beckon you."

"Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live."

"She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible."

"Fishing is a jerk at one end of a line waiting for a jerk at the other end of a line."

"Draw Dyrnwyn, only thou of noble worth, to rule with justice, to strike down evil. Who wields it in good cause shall slay even the Lord of Death."

"I’ve tried hard…I don’t know … my experience of my own dad and my own ex-husband possibly has some effect. I will remedy this. It is very unfair. I have tried harder, but I just can’t quite get there yet."

🇺🇸Wendelin Van Draanen

Literature

b. 1965

"“There's nothing like a head-strong woman to make you happy to be alive."

"I think about you every second of every day and I don’t know how to get over you,” she says.“Don’t,” I beg her. “Please don’t get over me."

"Romance gathers round an old story like lichen on an old branch. And the story of Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard is so old now — some say a year old, some say even two. How can the children be expected to remember?"

"If you like Dexter, you'll love Daryl, my new show about a baby rapist - with a HEART OF GOLD?! HUH?! Like Showtime, but freeeeeee!"

"…I would have been a much better-adjusted adult earlier on if I’d read a single book about real queer people when I was growing up."

4 quotes

🇺🇸Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Literature

b. 1954

"How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?"

"Never did any man more enjoy work for its own sake. Reed would have written for no reward whatever; the demand for the product of his pen was more exciting than payment for it."

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