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You Are Going To Have So Much Success In 2018 (pass it on)

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“Here I go!” the paper hissed softly. “Changing! Changing!”... “My turn at last!” said the red line sliding up and down the paper. “I’m so excited. What am I going to be?” “I don’t know,” replied the red felt pen. “All you lines come out of me, but only the hand knows what you’re going to turn into.” “I don’t know either,” said the hand. “I get instructions from above.”

From ‘The Five Sisters’ by Margaret Mahy 

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“To John, who convinced me that everyone interesting has a past”.

The Glass Castle acknowledgement by Jeannette Walls

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‘To one as young as you, I’m sure it seems incredible, but to Nicholas and Perenelle, it really is like going to bed after a very, very long day. After all, to the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure. You know, the Stone was really not such a wonderful thing. As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things which are worst for them.’

Albus Dumbledore to Harry Potter from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

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“Three days. Mr Ronald Weasley and Miss Granger will be most relieved you have come round, they have been extremely worried.”

Albus Dumbledore to Harry Potter from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling

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“A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.”

-Louis L’Amour