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  • #1
    Derek Landy
    “Are you going to shoot me?' Vengeous sneered. 'I wouldn't be surprised. What would a thing like you know about honor? Only a heathen would bring a gun to a sword fight.'

    And only a moron would bring a sword to a gunfight.”
    Derek Landy, Playing with Fire

  • #2
    Derek Landy
    “Doors are for people with no imagination.”
    Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant

  • #3
    Derek Landy
    “Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant...The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives.”
    Derek Landy

  • #4
    Nikolai Gogol
    “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
    Nikolai V. Gogol

  • #5
    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #6
    Christopher Paolini
    “The greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose.”
    Christopher Paolini, Eragon

  • #7
    Charles Darwin
    “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

  • #8
    Jackie French
    “Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.”
    Jackie French, author

  • #9
    Derek Landy
    “Stairs," Valkyrie said, disappointed.
    "Not just ordinary stairs," Skulduggery told her as he led the way down. "Magic stairs."
    "Really?"
    "Oh, yes."
    She followed him into the darkness. "How are they magic?"
    "They just are."
    "In what way?"
    "In a magicky way."
    She glared at the back of his head. "They aren't magic at all, are they?"
    "Not really.”
    Derek Landy, Mortal Coil

  • #10
    Derek Landy
    “We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant”
    Derek Landy, Playing with Fire

  • #11
    Dorothy Allison
    “Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.”
    Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

  • #12
    Anne Lamott
    “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
    Anne Lamott

  • #13
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #14
    Louis Adamic
    “My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
    Louis Adamic

  • #15
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

  • #16
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #17
    “Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.”
    Matthew J. Kirby, Icefall

  • #18
    “In life, the hardest decisions often have to be made more than once. But each time, it gets easier.”
    Matthew J. Kirby, Icefall

  • #19
    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #20
    Gail Carson Levine
    “A library is infinity under a roof.”
    Gail Carson Levine

  • #21
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #22
    A.A. Milne
    “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
    "Pooh!" he whispered.
    "Yes, Piglet?"
    "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
    A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

  • #23
    A.A. Milne
    “Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.”
    A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #24
    A.A. Milne
    “I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh.

    "There there," said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #25
    A.A. Milne
    “I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
    "I wish I were there to be doing it, too.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #26
    A.A. Milne
    “Think it over, think it under.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #27
    “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
    Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book

  • #28
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #29
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #30
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
    Abraham Lincoln



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