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#1

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

tags: books, orhan-pamuk, reading, the-new-life

#2

“Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?"
"You may ask."
"How old are you?"
"It's none of your business”
― Christopher Pike, The Last Vampire

tags: humor

265 likes

#3

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

tags: life

8367 likes

#4

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

35659 likes

#5

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

3730 likes

#6

“Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”
― Jose Marti

1729 likes

#7

“You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
― Ira Glass

1540 likes

#8

“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings

3153 likes

#9

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: imagination

2300 likes

#10

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27732 likes

#11

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

23102 likes

#12

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29740 likes

#13

“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

tags: books, reading

16482 likes

#14

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

tags: books, metaphor, soul

5677 likes

#15

“Reading is a bit like hallucinating.”
― Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

179 likes

#16

“She's known sadness. That's what it is. I only just thought that as I wrote it. She's known sadness, and it has made her kind.”
― Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

tags: sadness

157 likes

#17

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

2461 likes

#18

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

35259 likes

#19

“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

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

44337 likes

#20

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

18873 likes

#21

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

tags: writing

2556 likes

#22

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

6735 likes

#23

“To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”
― Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

2540 likes

#24

“I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon

1575 likes

#25

“Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: draco-malfoy, stupidity

3206 likes

#26

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

2465 likes

#27

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

4679 likes

#28

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

5871 likes

#29

“I've spent all my life alone. And when you've been alone as long as I have, you realize that solitude means much more than being alone.”
― Dorian Zari, The Labyrinth

8 likes

#30

“Don't deride me for hoping that someone can ease a pain you can't comprehend.”
― Dorian Zari, The Labyrinth

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