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“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

“Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.”
― Allan Gurganus

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

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

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

“Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.”
― China Miéville, The City & the City

“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

“لاتفرحوا يابناتي وأبنائي بقراءة الكتب السهلة؛ لأن المرء حين يقرأ لايفهم إلا مايعرف، فإذا فهمتم ماتقرأونه فهذا يعني أنكم تعرفونه ويكون دور الكتاب هو التذكير ليس أكثر”
― عبد الكريم بكار, إلى أبنائي وبناتي.. 50 شمعة لإضاءة دروبكم

“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
― Lorrie Moore

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

“I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

“Deep in earth my love is lying
And I must weep alone.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems

“Play is the highest form of research.”
― Albert Einstein