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Click Here: To Find Out How I Survived Seventh Grade

by Lindsay Howard on January 15, 2016·Romance, Childrens, Coming-of-age Story, Fiction, Modern Fiction

Anyone who ever experienced bullying in school is bound to appreciate this novel. My mom gave me this book when I was going into 7th grade – appropriately, of course – and although I enjoyed it then, a re-read has reminded me of just how great it was. Click Here, by Denise Vega, tells the story of a girl named Erin Swift, who is separated from her best friend.

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The Night Circus

by Lindsay Howard on December 4, 2015·Drama, Coming-of-age Story, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, has received a large number of rave reviews. It tells the story of two children, Celia and Marco, who are trained for the majority of their lives in magic. This training, they learn very early, is meant to prepare them for a challenge in which they will face off with an unknown opponent. Full of mystery, romance and magic, this dark and hauntingly beautiful fantasy is unlike anything I’ve read before.

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No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them

Elie Wiesel

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.

Lady Gaga

To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.

Hayao Miyazaki, Starting Point: 1979-1996

Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.

Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

Do I dare disturb the universe?

T.S. Eliot

Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the handsome prince, travel to exotic places, and take the leap that almost always had a happy ending.

Teresa Mummert, Suicide Note