Speaker 1

Warm Up 2023 Round 1, Speaker 1:

1 “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.” —from That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton

2 “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

3 “Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.” —from Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas

Speaker 2

Warm Up 2023 Round 1, Speaker 2:

1 “I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people—to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it’s the effect or vice versa.”  —from Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

2 “I think that maybe forgiveness is like change—it comes in small steps.” —from The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

3 “Even in its first faint traces, love could alter a landscape. It wrote unimagined stories and made the most beautiful, forbidding places.” —from Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore

Speaker 3

Warm Up 2023 Round 1, Speaker 3:

1 “I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.” —from This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen

2 “Sometimes, when people get treated as less than human, the best way to help them feel better is to simply treat them as human. Not as victims. Just you as you.” —from All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

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

Speaker 4

Warm Up 2023 Round 1, Speaker 4:

1 “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

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

3 “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

Speaker 5

Warm Up 2023 Round 1, Speaker 5:

1 “We who have means and a voice must use them to help those who have neither.” —from These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly

2 “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

3 “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

Speaker 6

Warm Up 2023 Round 1, Speaker 6:

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

2 “You may be born into a family, but you walk into friendships. Some you’ll discover you should put behind you. Others are worth every risk.” —from They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera

3 “What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?” —from An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

Speaker 1

Warm Up 2023 Round 2, Speaker 1:

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

2  “Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.” —from Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon\

3 “Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.” —from If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson

Speaker 2

Warm Up 2023 Round 2, Speaker 2:

1 “The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.” —from UnWholly by Neal Schusterman

2 “Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.” —from We Are The Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

3 “I believed, and still believe, that you can build your dreams brick by brick. That you can accomplish anything with persistence.” —from I Believe In A Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo

Speaker 3

Warm Up 2023 Round 2, Speaker 3:

1 “Sometimes the best way to find out what you’re supposed to do is by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do.”  —from Just One Day by Gayle Forman

2 “Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can’t be in life.” —from The Girl Who Could Silence The Wind by Meg Medina

3 “You should eat a waffle. You can’t be sad if you eat a waffle” —from ttfn by Lauren Myracle

Speaker 4

Warm Up 2023 Round 2, Speaker 4:

1 “Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they’d lock us up?” —from Jeremy Fink and The Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass

2 “It was impossible to feel alone in a room full of favorite books. I had the sense that they knew me personally, that they’d read me cover to cover as I’d read them.” —from Noteworthy by Riley Redgate

3 “When I read, I feel emotion all on my own. Emotion no living person is making me feel.” —from Pivot Point by Kasie West

Speaker 5

Warm Up 2023 Round 2, Speaker 5:

1 “Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today’s tasks.” —from Ironside by Holly Black

2 “It’s amazing how the more you read, the less you know.” —from Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here by Anna Breslaw

3 “People really are like houses with vast rooms and tiny windows. And maybe it’s a good thing, the way we never stop surprising each other.” —from Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Speaker 6

Warm Up 2023 Round 2, Speaker 6:

1 “Don’t get stabbed. It makes everything awkward.” —from The Madness Underneath by Maureen Johnson

2 “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.” —from Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare

3 “Our private tastes in books showed a hint of our secret selves.” —from The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma