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  1. Gregory Maguire _ Wicked: The Life and Times of

    Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection instead. She had the nearsightedness of youth. She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear yet...She was, after all, on her way to Shiz because she was smart. But there was more than one way to be smart.
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  2. Mary Karr _ Cherry: A Memoir

    Her mother's injunction on competing with other girls is a challenge, a gauntlet thrown down: "You just have to be smarter than the ones who are prettier and prettier than the ones who are smarter
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  3. Sarah J. Maas _ Queen of Shadows

    Don't be angry, Finnula had said, be smart.
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  4. Chuck Palahniuk _ Pygmy

    Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people."
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  5. Khaled Hosseini _ A Thousand Splendid Suns

    ‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated Laila. No chance.
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  6. Katherine Paterson _ Bridge to Terabithia

    It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you."
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  7. Gillian Flynn _ The Grownup

    I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people-people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin-that they'd be bored as hell by me. It's a lonely way to go through life.
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  8. Simone Elkeles _ Perfect Chemistry

    Sometimes good men need to do things that aren't good. Right?"I ruffle his hair. Luis is way more innocent than I was at his age. "You know, I think you're gonna be the smartest Fuentes yet, little bro.
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  9. Kelley Armstrong _ The Rising

    Of the Phoenix kids, the one Derek got along best with was Daniel. In him, Daniel had found a good sparring partner. And a plotting partner, too. Derek wasn't just the biggest and strongest in our group. He was also the smartest. Scary, off-the-charts smart. That intimidated Daniel a little at first-he's bright, but he needs to work for his grades. But Derek wasn't a show-off or a know-it-all, so they got past that and we would hang out together, the two guys, Chloe, and I planning and plotting our future, bouncing ideas off one another.
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  10. Rick Riordan _ The Demigod Diaries

    I'd had years of practise looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn't know. It's a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling me to read a book of Greek myths, but I don't see the need. It's easier just to have folks explain stuff.
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  11. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    He asked about the newspaper strike, and true to form, he couldn't understand why both parties didn't simply communicate with each other and solve their problems. I told him not everyone was as smart as he was.
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