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  • #1
    “නිමල වස්සාන වලා
    විසිරෙයි ගුවන් ගැබ
    බවුන් වැඩුමට කාලය යි
    ගහ කොළද ඇළ දොළ”
    Shasika Amali Munasinghe
    tags: poetry

  • #2
    “තඹක්ක වළල්ලක් වුව ඇති
    මේ සසර දිගු වනු පිණිස
    සුළඟ සසල කළහොත් තුර
    ගිලිහ ගිය හැක වියත් පත්”
    Shasika Amali Munasinghe
    tags: poetry

  • #3
    Rainbow Rowell
    “It's the good things that hurt when you're missing them.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #4
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #5
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #6
    Carol Shields
    “Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
    Carol Shields

  • #7
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
    William Makepeace Thackeray

  • #8
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #9
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #10
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
    George Bernard Shaw

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

  • #12
    Stephen  King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    Stephen King

  • #13
    Lorraine Hansberry
    “There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
    Lorraine Hansberry

  • #14
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #15
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #16
    Carl Sagan
    “If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.”
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos

  • #17
    Khaled Hosseini
    “Sad stories make good books”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #18
    K. Hari Kumar
    “Dying is not a solution.. I want to live with You..!”
    K. Hari Kumar, When Strangers meet..

  • #19
    E.B. White
    “It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”
    E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

  • #20
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #21
    Steve  Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    Steve Martin

  • #22
    Kate Morton
    “But of course, those who live in memories are never really dead”
    Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

  • #23
    L.J. Smith
    “People die . . . so love them every day.
    Beauty fades . . . so look before it's gone.
    Love changes . . . but not the love you give.
    And if you love, you'll never be alone.”
    L.J. Smith, Witchlight

  • #24
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along.
    To look ahead,' said he.
    And what brought you back in the nick of time?'
    Looking behind,' said he.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #25
    J.K. Rowling
    “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #26
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #27
    Clamp
    “Instead of regretting what we cannot do, it is better to do anything we can do. Even if what we do does not bring us to our goal, it brings us much closer to it.”
    CLAMP

  • #28
    Yogi Berra
    “It ain't over 'til it's over.”
    Yogi Berra

  • #29
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #30
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring



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