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  • #1
    Sherry Thomas
    “You don’t know how to converse. Sometimes I think the spaces between the stars are filled with your silence.”
    Sherry Thomas, Not Quite a Husband

  • #2
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #3
    “A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
    Zen Shin

  • #4
    Charles Frazier
    “Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.”
    Charles Frazier, Nightwoods

  • #5
    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #6
    George R.R. Martin
    “Winter is coming.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #7
    Sylvia Plath
    “Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

    (This quote is probably wrongly attributed to Sylvia Plath)”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #8
    Walter Scott
    “All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
    Sir Walter Scott

  • #9
    William Shakespeare
    “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
    William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

  • #10
    David Bowie
    “I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.”
    David Bowie

  • #11
    Mik Everett
    “If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.”
    Mik Everett

  • #12
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I like good strong words that mean something…”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #13
    Charles Frazier
    “Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bought and sold by some idiot employer, not having the moments of her days valued in fractions of a dollar by somebody other than herself.”
    Charles Frazier, Nightwoods

  • #14
    David Foster Wallace
    “How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
    David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

  • #15
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • #16
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
    Gabriel García Márquez

  • #17
    George R.R. Martin
    “We look up at the same stars and see such different things.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

  • #18
    John Berger
    “Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.”
    John Berger

  • #19
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #20
    William S. Burroughs
    “If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.”
    William S. Burroughs

  • #21
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #22
    Anthony Doerr
    “To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.”
    Anthony Doerr, Memory Wall

  • #23
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #24
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #25
    Stephen        King
    “Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”
    Stephen King, The Body

  • #26
    Vincent van Gogh
    “A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
    Vincent Van Gogh

  • #27
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #28
    E.E. Cummings
    “i do not know what it is about you that closes
    and opens;only something in me understands
    the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses”
    e.e. cummings

  • #29
    Lauren Oliver
    “I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”
    Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

  • #30
    William Wordsworth
    “Nature never did betray
    The heart that loved her.”
    William Wordsworth



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