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“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you have it, use your breath;
There is no drinking after death.”
― Ben Jonson

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
― John Boyne

“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Every great love starts with a great story...”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!”
― Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City

“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
The book needs you.”
― Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Selected Poems

“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.”
― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
― Emily Dickinson

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
― Winston Churchill