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Love what you got while you got it

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.
~ Kate DiCamillo in BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE

Each time a child opens a book

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.
~ Lois Lowry

Memories need to be shared

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
~ Lois Lowry in THE GIVER

It's up to you

There are things you can't back down on, things you gotta take a stand on. But it's up to you to decide what them things are.
~ Mildred D. Taylor in ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY

What something's really going to be like

You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.
~ Katherine Paterson in BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA

Where the good stuff is

Read the books they don't want you to. That's where the good stuff is.
~ LeVar Burton

Your imagination

Your imagination will create many friends.
~ Grace Lin in FORTUNE COOKIE FORTUNES

To make the world more beautiful

You must do something to make the world more beautiful.
~ Barbara Cooney in MISS RUMPHIUS

The exquisite, almost unbearable anticipation

As children we did not grow up steadily, one day at a time. Occasionally, we would leap forward. Getting separated from our mother in the supermarket and—holding panic at bay—finding her on our own could make us instantly feel a year older. It is the same way we felt when we rode off alone on a bicycle for the first time.

While most of these experiences left me exhilarated, there was one leap forward that produced less welcome emotions. When I was eight years old I began to consider the possibility that Santa Claus was not real. Embracing this suspicion made me feel grown up, very suddenly and also very unhappily. Leaving behind a belief in Santa meant I would never again experience the enchantment that accompanied the days leading up to Christmas. The exquisite, almost unbearable anticipation of a fairy tale coming to life, a fairy tale that included me, would be gone forever.

~ Chris Van Allsburg

There is nothing that cannot happen

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today!

~ Mark Twain
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