1.

“A good friend is a connection to life—a tie to the past, a road to the

future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.” —Lois Wyse, Women
Make the Best Friends: A Celebration

2. “I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.” —A.A.

Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

3. “The best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory.” —

Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?

4. “The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.” —Henry David

Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

5. “The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over

our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.” —Mary
Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

6. “Anybody can look at you. It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the
same world you see.” —John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

7. “They were all growing up and into each other like trees striving together
for the sun.” —Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King
8. “We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had
another part to us.” —Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer, The
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

9. “Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but
because we don’t have to say anything.” —Khaled Hosseini, The Kite
Runner

10. “No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses
of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or
awkwardness.” —Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

11. “Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can
remember them.” —from Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi

12. “It doesn’t matter how big the body, it’s what you do with it.” —
from The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

13. “If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system. That’s much more
powerful than rebelling outside the system.” —from Legend by Marie Lu
14. “We who have means and a voice must use them to help those who have
neither.” —from These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly
15. “Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but
when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within
you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.” —from Daughter
of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

16. “The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.” —
from Eragon by Christopher Paolini

17. “I feel like I need to speak out, because if no one speaks out, if no one
says, this is me, this is what I believe in, and this is why I’m different, and
this is why that’s okay, then what’s the point? What’s the point of living
in this beautiful, great melting pot where everyone can dare be anything
they want to be?” —from When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

18. “Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though
you’re scared.” —from The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

19. “Making a decision isn’t about knowing every potential consequence. It’s
about knowing what you want and chasing a path that takes you in that
direction” —from Huntress by Malinda Lo

20. “The funny thing about armor is that it doesn’t just keep other people out.
It keeps us in. We build it up around us, not realizing that we’re trapping
ourselves.” —from The Unbound by Victoria Schwab
21. “Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with
them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest
of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.” —
from Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume

22. “We can’t know what’s going to happen. We can just try to figure it out
as we go along.” —from Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan
Matson

23. “Fearis only your enemy if you allow it to be.” —from An Ember in the
Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

24. “Fear
doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up” —from Divergent by
Veronica Roth

25. “I’ve seen most of what there is to be afraid of in this world, and to tell
you the truth, the worst of them are the ones that make you afraid in the
light. The things that your eyes see plainly and can’t forget are worse than
huddled black figures left to the imagination. Imagination has a poor
memory; it slinks away and goes blurry. Eyes remember for much
longer.” —from Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake