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  • #1
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #2
    Charles Bukowski
    “great writers are indecent people
    they live unfairly
    saving the best part for paper.

    good human beings save the world
    so that bastards like me can keep creating art,
    become immortal.
    if you read this after I am dead
    it means I made it.”
    Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

  • #3
    Cornelia Funke
    “Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

  • #4
    Emily Dickinson
    “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #5
    Shel Silverstein
    “Magic
    Sandra’s seen a leprechaun,
    Eddie touched a troll,
    Laurie danced with witches once,
    Charlie found some goblins gold.
    Donald heard a mermaid sing,
    Susy spied an elf,
    But all the magic I have known
    I've had to make myself.”
    Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #7
    Erich Maria Remarque
    “It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.”
    Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

  • #8
    Stephen  King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #9
    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #10
    George R.R. Martin
    “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
    'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #11
    Bernhard Schlink
    “Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.”
    Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

  • #12
    Bernhard Schlink
    “There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”
    Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

  • #13
    Suzanne Collins
    “If I could grow wings, I could fly. Only people can't grow wings," he say's. "Real or not real?"
    "Real," I say. "But people don't need wings to survive."
    "Mockingjays do.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #14
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

  • #15
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #16
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

  • #17
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #18
    Stephen  King
    “Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”
    Stephen King, The Shining

  • #19
    Dodinsky
    “Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.”
    Dodinsky, In the Garden of Thoughts: Be Your Best Self

  • #20
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

  • #21
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #22
    David Levithan
    “It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.”
    David Levithan, Wide Awake

  • #23
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The only journey is the one within.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #24
    Lao Tzu
    “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #25
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “People”—Geralt turned his head—“like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

  • #26
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “Only Evil and Greater Evil exist and beyond them, in the shadows, lurks True Evil. True Evil, Geralt, is something you can barely imagine, even if you believe nothing can still surprise you. And sometimes True Evil seizes you by the throat and demands that you choose between it and another, slightly lesser, Evil.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

  • #27
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “No. I’ve no time to waste. Winter’s coming.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

  • #28
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “I manage because I have to. Because I've no other way out. Because I've overcome the vanity and pride of being different, I've understood that they are a pitiful defense against being different. Because I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes. The sun shines differently, but it will continue to shine, and jumping at it with a hoe isn't going to do anything.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

  • #29
    Terry Pratchett
    “Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

  • #30
    It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
    Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky



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