December 2011
18 posts
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“That’s how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous...”
– Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
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“Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.”
– Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
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“Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by...”
– Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
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“At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more...”
– Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
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“And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the...”
– Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
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“It didn’t matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself,...”
– Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
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“Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.”
– Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
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“Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.”
– Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
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“Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.”
– Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
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“With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest...”
– Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
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“Nature didn’t need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.”
– Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
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“You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.”
– Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
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“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
– Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
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Day 9: Your favorite quotes about books.
“Don’t start The Lovely Bones unless you can finish it. The book begins with more horror than you could imagine, but closes with more beauty than you could hope for… Alice Sebold has done something miraculous here.” - Christian Science Monitor on the Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
“What it’s like to live a lonely and unwanted and cornered by...
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“I understand how: I do not understand why.”
– 1984 by George Orwell
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“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the...”
– 1984 by George Orwell
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“We shall meet in a place where there is no darkness.”
– 1984 by George Orwell
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Day 8: Your favorite quotes from books.
Oh, I have about a million! But I’ll just name 25.
1. “The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” - Tuesdays with Morrie
2. “Without love, we are birds with broken wings.” - Tuesdays with Morrie
3. “This is the first kiss where I actually feel stirring inside my chest. Warm and curious. This is the first kiss that makes me want another....