"When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.- Miles "Pudge" Halter, Looking for Alaska, by John Green.
I believe this holds true not just for teenagers, but for all youth and those young at heart. My name is Katie, and I read a lot and I try to keep well read of the best books in all the genres. My favorite genre is Young Adult because of the passion and talent of the authors, and the originality and creativity those authors express in their novels. Young adult authors just love their target audience and strive to please the pickiest of readers. Anything mass produced and stuck in an airport for mass consumption, you won't find me reading. There are better gems out there, and like all treasure, it is the one most sought after and hard to find that is the most precious. I'd love recommendations or to recommend something to you! Happy Reading.
PS: Favorite Quotes
****"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.” - Joseph Joubert *****
"The only difference between science and magic is that scientists doubt everything and magicians doubt nothing. That's why magicians get so much more done. And if scientists acknowledged that magic existed and put their considerable talents to discovering what made it tick, a great deal more could be accomplished in this world. But scientists have decided that magic does not and cannot exist, so naturally they don't go out of their way to try and find the reasons for it. Very shortsighted on their part." ~Arthur Penn, Knight Life
My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. ~Thomas Helm
A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. ~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ~Mark Twain, attributed
"I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries." Carl Sagan
"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings." ~Almansor - Heinrich Heine
"Even bad books are books, and therefore sacred." The Tin Drum - Gunther Grass
“You know what your mamma used to say. Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord.” – Amma: BEAUTIFUL CREATURES by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
"God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide." The Strange Necessity - Rebecca West
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. - Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks"
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Sir Francis Bacon
"That which yields is not always weak." ~Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Dart)
"Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. " ~Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Chosen)
"It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others" ~ Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Dart)
"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." ~Marilyn Monroe
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." ~Mark Twain
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." ~ Laozi
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." ~Maya Angelou
"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." ~ Oscar Wilde
"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
— Marlene Dietrich
"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous." ~Albert Einstein (The World As I See It)
"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame." ~Oscar Wilde
Iron is full of impurities that weaken it; through the forging fire, it becomes steel and is transformed into a razor-sharp sword. Human beings develop in the same fashion.-Morihei Ueshiba
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