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  • #1
    Douglas Adams
    “He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  • #2
    Madeline Miller
    “I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #3
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #4
    Madeline Miller
    “There was a sort of innocence to him, I thought. I do not mean this as the poets mean it: a virtue to be broken by the story’s end, or else upheld at greatest cost. Nor do I mean that he was foolish or guileless. I mean that he was made only of himself, without the dregs that clog the rest of us.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #5
    Madeline Miller
    “But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #6
    Madeline Miller
    “The words slid into me, smooth as a polished knife.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #7
    Madeline Miller
    “Children are not sacks of grain, to be substituted one for the other.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #8
    Madeline Miller
    “I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #9
    Madeline Miller
    “Know yourself is carved above their doors. But I had been a stranger to myself, turned to stone for no reason I could name.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #10
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #11
    Douglas Adams
    “I don't go to mythical places with strange men.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #12
    Douglas Adams
    “Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.”
    Douglas Adams

  • #13
    Douglas Adams
    “What, are you, crazy?' 'It's a possibility I haven't ruled out yet', said Zaphod quietly. 'I know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  • #14
    David Eddings
    “As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others.
    -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.”
    David Eddings, Queen of Sorcery

  • #15
    Kurtis J. Wiebe
    “This is my party. This book. The book is good. It asks no questions. The book lets me engage it on my terms.”
    Kurtis J. Wiebe, Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass & Sorcery

  • #16
    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Diggers

  • #17
    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    Terry Pratchett, Jingo

  • #18
    Terry Pratchett
    “Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
    Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

  • #19
    Terry Pratchett
    “If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #20
    Umberto Eco
    “We live for books.”
    Umberto Eco

  • #21
    Umberto Eco
    “To survive, you must tell stories.”
    Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

  • #22
    Umberto Eco
    “I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
    Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

  • #23
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

  • #24
    Alix E. Harrow
    “I hope you will find the cracks in the world and wedge them wider, so the light of other suns shines through; I hope you will keep the world unruly, messy, full of strange magics; I hope you will run through every open Door and tell stories when you return.”
    Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

  • #25
    Alix E. Harrow
    “It’s a profoundly strange feeling, to stumble across someone whose desires are shaped so closely to your own, like reaching toward your reflection in a mirror and finding warm flesh under your fingertips. If you should ever be lucky enough to find that magical, fearful symmetry, I hope you’re brave enough to grab it with both hands and not let go.”
    Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

  • #26
    Alix E. Harrow
    “Let that be a lesson to you: If you are too good and too quiet for too long, it will cost you. It will always cost you, in the end.”
    Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

  • #27
    Alix E. Harrow
    “How fitting, that the most terrifying time in my life should require me to do what I do best: escape into a book.”
    Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

  • #28
    Alix E. Harrow
    “Maybe all powerful men are cowards at heart, because in their hearts they know power is temporary.”
    Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

  • #29
    Alix E. Harrow
    “They always end up alone in the stories—witches, I mean—living in the woods or mountains or locked in towers. I suppose it would take a brave man to love a witch, and most men are cowards.”
    Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

  • #30
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven



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