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    Rita Dove
    “The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.”
    ― Rita Dove Former U.S. Poet Laureate
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    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: literature, music, poetry
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    John Irving
    “When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”
    ― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
    tags: death, grief, loss
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    Cora Carmack
    “What might seem a careless phrase for one can cut deep as a blade for another.”
    ― Cora Carmack, Roar
    tags: aurora, roar, rora
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    Cora Carmack
    “She had hoped. And hope broke more hearts than any man ever could.”
    ― Cora Carmack, Roar
    tags: hope
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    Cora Carmack
    “And I am here with you. If you have questions, ask them. If you have fears, shed them. If you have doubts, give them to me and I will crush them beneath my heel. If you need help, I will provide it. Even if you only need someone to yell at, I can be that too. And when the time comes that you need someone to trust, I will be that person. I promise.”
    ― Cora Carmack, Roar
    tags: carmack, locke, love, roar
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    Bram Stoker
    “I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
    tags: daydream, dracula, hopes, sea
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    Bram Stoker
    “I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
    tags: doubt, fear, terror, wonder
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    Bram Stoker
    “Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
    tags: dead, dracula
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    Bram Stoker
    “..the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
    tags: evil, good
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    J.M. Barlog
    “Maybe it’s about changing the future by altering what is done in the moment.”
    ― J.M. Barlog, God of War: The Official Novelization
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    Nicholas Sansbury Smith
    “Honor the ones we’ve lost by fighting for the ones we can”
    ― Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Extinction Ashes
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    Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
    “Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.”
    ― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
    tags: evil, monsters, murderers
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    Alice Sebold
    “These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.”
    ― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
    tags: death, inspirational, life
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    Alice Sebold
    “Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”
    ― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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    Mackenzi Lee
    “The room is warm and smells like dust, and just the presence of so many books makes it easier to breathe. It’s remarkable how being around books, even those you’ve never read, can have a calming effect, like walking into a crowded party and finding it full of people you know.”
    ― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
    tags: book-love, bookishness, booklover, books, calming, comfort, libraries, library, library-love
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    Zadie Smith
    “He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.”
    ― Zadie Smith, On Beauty
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    H.L. Mencken
    “I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, whiskey
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    Patricia A. McKillip
    “The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.”
    ― Patricia A. McKillip, The Bell at Sealey Head
    tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, readers, reading
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    Anne Rice
    “Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Witching Hour
    tags: aliteracy, bibliophiles, book-lovers, willful-ignorance, zealotry
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    Eugene Field
    “All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
    ― Eugene Field, The Love Affairs Of A Bibliomaniac
    tags: bed, bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading
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    Will Thomas
    “To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.”
    ― Will Thomas, Some Danger Involved
    tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers
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  • #23
    “I do not just buy books; I collect them with the idea that they fit into a pattern of knowledge.”
    ― Omar Saif Ghobash, Letters to a Young Muslim
    tags: bibliophiles, books
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    Thomas de Quincey
    “...for it happens that books are the only article of property in which I am richer than my neighbors.”
    ― Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater
    tags: bibliophiles
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    Jim C. Hines
    “...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.”
    ― Jim C. Hines, Libriomancer
    tags: bibliophiles, bookstores, libraries
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  • #26
    “Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.”
    ― Willie van Peer
    tags: bibliophiles, books, emotions, fiction, narratology, reading
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