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  • #1
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #2
    Cormac McCarthy
    “I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

  • #3
    Tom Clancy
    “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
    ― Tom Clancy

  • #4
    George R.R. Martin
    “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

  • #5
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey

  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
    ― Mark Twain

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    ― Oscar Wilde

  • #8
    Paullina Simons
    “Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?”
    ― Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman

  • #9
    “When you walked into my life, I knew at that moment who I am, everything inside of me was no longer mine. One touch from your hand is all it took, from that second on, I knew that I will always belong to you.”
    ― Karen-Anne Stewart, Healing Rain

  • #10
    R.L. LaFevers
    “Hate cannot be fought with hate. Evil cannot be conquered by darkness. Only love has the power to conquer them both.”
    ― R.L. LaFevers, Dark Triumph

  • #11
    “Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.”
    ― James Lee Burke

  • #12
    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    ― Euripides, The Bacchae

  • #13
    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    ― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

  • #14
    Confucius
    “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
    ― Confucius

  • #15
    P.S. Winn
    “The ideas for the books come from my dreams. It is the readers' vivid imaginations that bring the dreams to life!”
    ― P.S. Winn