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  • #1
    “Those that remain are streaked with bird mess and felted with moss, making the cottage look less like it was built by human hands and more as if it was raised from the soil by an evil wizard's spell.”
    Sam Lloyd, The Memory Wood

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    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #1
    Neil Gaiman
    “Books were safer than other people anyway.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #2
    Anne Rice
    “You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
    Anne Rice

  • #3
    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

  • #4
    Anne Rice
    “And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.”
    Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm

  • #5
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #6
    Neil Gaiman
    “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #7
    Robin Hobb
    “Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”
    Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate

  • #8
    Robin Hobb
    “Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.”
    Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

  • #9
    Robin Hobb
    “Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.”
    Robin Hobb, The Mad Ship

  • #11
    Robin Hobb
    “Wolves have no kings.”
    Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

  • #12
    Robin Hobb
    “We are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us.”
    Robin Hobb, Golden Fool
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  • #13
    Robin Hobb
    “Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.”
    Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

  • #14
    Helen Oyeyemi
    “Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.”
    Helen Oyeyemi, Boy, Snow, Bird

  • #15
    Alexandra Oliva
    “I've heard believers speak of the coldness of science and the warmth of their faith. But my life has been warm too, and I have faith. Faith in love, and faith in the inherent beauty of a world that formed itself.”
    Alexandra Oliva, The Last One

  • #16
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “I never change, I simply become more myself.”
    Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

  • #17
    Alastair Reynolds
    “It’s the people who don’t worry—those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right—they’re the ones that cause the problems.”
    Alastair Reynolds, Redemption Ark

  • #19
    N.K. Jemisin
    “In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.”
    N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

  • #20
    N.K. Jemisin
    “We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.”
    N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

  • #21
    N.K. Jemisin
    “It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy; it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all - but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.”
    N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

  • #22
    N.K. Jemisin
    “You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining.”
    N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

  • #23
    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    Philip K. Dick, VALIS



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