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“You are never alone when you have a good book.”
― Freya Sampson, The Last Chance Library

“If your mind is on a book, for example, you may see the world of the book around you, even if you are not reading at the time”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“It wasn't even about fear - it was about being smart. Anyone who'd ever seen a scary movie knew to skip the corn maze, just like we knew not to venture down into a basement or up into an attic, to drive past hitchhikers and heed the warnings of toothless old men at gas stations. If you watched enough horrible things happen on-screen, you could figure out how to avoid them in real life.”
― Danielle Valentine, How to Survive Your Murder

“We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter, but work is third.”
― Leslie Knope

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I can't talk to you when you're like this."
"Happy? Excited? Hopeful?"
"Delusional.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“Sometimes we get so tied up in our idea of what we think we want that we miss out on the amazingness of what we could actually have.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“Friendship,” Marx said, “is kind of like having a Tamagotchi.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Because only brave children know that wishing is never enough. You have to try to make your own wishes come true.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

“You look best when you're you.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“Anything you want, Buxbaum. As long as I'm with you, it will the perfect day.”
― Lynn Painter, Better than the Prom

“You can’t wait 17 hours for me?’
‘Buxbaum, I’ve waited my whole life for you.”
― Lynn Painter, Better than the Prom

“Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

“Sam’s grandfather had two core beliefs: (1) all things were knowable by anyone, and (2) anything was fixable if you took the time to figure out what was broken. Sam believed these things as well.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“We are the books we read and the things we love.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“My mom once told me that the world is divided into two kinds of people: the ones who love their high school years and the ones who spend the next decade recovering from them. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, she said.
But something did kill her, and I’m not stronger. So go figure; maybe there’s a third kind of person: the ones who never recover from high school at all.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“being a woman was akin to a performance, with its cues and lines that had to be learned. I knew how I was supposed to act and what I was supposed to say, I just wasn’t exactly sure if I wanted to.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“What you have here, Martha, is your classic "situationship". Take it from me, you want to avoid them like the plague. You never know where you stand.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska