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  • #1
    Robert Frost
    “The Road Not Taken

    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
    And sorry I could not travel both
    And be one traveler, long I stood
    And looked down one as far as I could
    To where it bent in the undergrowth;

    Then took the other, as just as fair,
    And having perhaps the better claim,
    Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
    Though as for that the passing there
    Had worn them really about the same,

    And both that morning equally lay
    In leaves no step had trodden black.
    Oh, I kept the first for another day!
    Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
    I doubted if I should ever come back.

    I shall be telling this with a sigh
    Somewhere ages and ages hence:
    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.”
    Robert Frost

  • #2
    Veronica Roth
    “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #3
    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #4
    Octavia E. Butler
    “When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling

  • #5
    Edward Gibbon
    “We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
    Edward Gibbon

  • #6
    Francisco Cândido Xavier
    “‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
    Chico Xavier

  • #7
    Ibn-e-Safi
    “Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on”
    Ibn-e-Safi

  • #8
    Cherie Priest
    “And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
    Cherie Priest, Dreadnought

  • #9
    Tom Perrotta
    “Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”
    Tom Perrotta, Election

  • #10
    V.S. Naipaul
    “The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
    V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

  • #11
    Jeanette Winterson
    “Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
    Jeanette Winterson

  • #12
    Margaret Wise Brown
    “Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.”
    Margaret Wise Brown

  • #13
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #14
    “Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
    Sara Henderson

  • #15
    George Orwell
    “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
    George Orwell

  • #16
    The constant happiness is curiosity.
    “The constant happiness is curiosity.”
    Alice Munro

  • #17
    Javier Marías
    “Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.”
    Javier Marías

  • #18
    “Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.”
    Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

  • #19
    Tuli Kupferberg
    “When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”
    Tuli Kupferberg

  • #20
    Elie Wiesel
    “Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
    Elie Wiesel, Night

  • #21
    Clive Barker
    “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
    Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

  • #22
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Reading brings us unknown friends”
    Honore de Balzac

  • #23
    Alice Dalgliesh
    “What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.”
    Alice Dalgliesh, The Silver Pencil

  • #24
    Frank Herbert
    “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
    Frank Herbert

  • #25
    Anne Enright
    “I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”
    Anne Enright, The Gathering

  • #26
    Douglas Adams
    “Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
    Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

  • #27
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
    P.G. Wodehouse

  • #28
    Kathleen Winsor
    “The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.”
    Kathleen Winsor

  • #29
    Robert Jordan
    “Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
    Robert Jordan

  • #30
    “Home's where you go when you run out of homes.”
    John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy



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