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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    Douglas Adams
    “You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
    Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

  • #3
    Christopher  Morley
    “There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
    Christopher Morley, Pipefuls

  • #4
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #5
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

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    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #7
    Kathleen Thompson Norris
    “Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. ”
    Kathleen Thompson Norris, Hands Full of Living

  • #9
    Robertson Davies
    “To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.”
    Robertson Davies

  • #10
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #11
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.'

    - Jane Eyre”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #12
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #13
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #14
    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    Henry Ward Beecherr

  • #15
    Erasmus
    “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
    Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

  • #16
    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    Sir Francis Bacon

  • #17
    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

  • #18
    Horace Mann
    “A house without books is like a room without windows.”
    Horace Mann

  • #19
    Cornelia Funke
    “Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

  • #20
    Cornelia Funke
    “The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkheart / Inkspell / Inkdeath

  • #21
    Cornelia Funke
    “Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.”
    Cornelia Funke

  • #22
    Stephen  King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    Stephen King

  • #23
    Cassandra Clare
    “Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

  • #24
    Cassandra Clare
    “People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

  • #25
    Cassandra Clare
    “It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #26
    Cassandra Clare
    “Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #27
    Cassandra Clare
    “There is no pretending",Jace said with absolute clarity."I love you,and I will love you until I die,and if there's a life after that,I'll love you then."
    She caught her breath.He had said it-the words there was no going back from.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

  • #28
    Cassandra Clare
    “L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
    "It means that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

  • #29
    Cassandra Clare
    “Jace likes to pretend that everyone isn’t talking about him, even when he knows they are.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

  • #30
    Cassandra Clare
    “L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

  • #31
    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel



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