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  • #1
    Herman Melville
    “There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.”
    Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, the Whale

  • #2
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
    P.G. Wodehouse

  • #3
    Alfred Tennyson
    “I am a part of all that I have met.”
    Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson

  • #4
    John Green
    “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #5
    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #6
    John Green
    “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #7
    Markus Zusak
    “Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #8
    Paulo Coelho
    “Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
    Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

  • #9
    Paulo Coelho
    “Maktub" (It is written.)”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #10
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #11
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #12
    J.K. Rowling
    “You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!"
    "What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #13
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

  • #14
    Agatha Christie
    “Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
    "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
    Agatha Christie, Peril at End House

  • #15
    Salman Rushdie
    “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
    Salman Rushdie

  • #16
    Salman Rushdie
    “Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read.

    If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.

    I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

    To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.”
    Salman Rushdie

  • #17
    Mercedes Lackey
    “It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.”
    Mercedes Lackey, Intrigues

  • #18
    Mercedes Lackey
    “If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”
    Mercedes Lackey

  • #19
    Najwa Zebian
    “These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.”
    Najwa Zebian

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    Oscar Wilde
    tags: age

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #23
    Fredrik Backman
    Nothing must happen to you
    No, what am I saying
    Everything must happen to you
    And it must be wonderful

    Fredrik Backman, Anxious People



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