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    Neil Gaiman
    “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: books
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    J.M. Barrie
    “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: faith, life, pixie-dust, trust
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    Jane Austen
    “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: romantic
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Lewis Carroll
    “I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
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    Alice Hoffman
    “There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.”
    ― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic
    tags: lavender, love, magic, rosemary, salt, superstition
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    Kristin Hannah
    “Books are the mile markers of my life. Some people have family photos or home movies to record their past. I’ve got books. Characters. For as long as I can remember, books have been my safe place.”
    ― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone
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    Alice Hoffman
    “My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances”
    ― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: heartache, love
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    J.M. Barrie
    “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: happiness
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: childhood-memory
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    Beatrix Potter
    “Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. ”
    ― Beatrix Potter
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?”
    ― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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    Jane Austen
    “My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
    'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: anne-eliot, good-company, jane-austen, persuasion
    1992 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: desires, fun, want
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: inspirational
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    Neil Gaiman
    “What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
    'Cats don't have names,' it said.
    'No?' said Coraline.
    'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: cats, names, self-knowledge
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: books, library, reading
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It's going to be all right, sir," Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened voice. "We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don't worry ..."
    "I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    tags: dumbledore, harry-potter, hope
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    J.K. Rowling
    “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: grief, harry-potter, hurt, pain
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    J.K. Rowling
    “The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: black, choices, harry-potter, inside-us, light, sirius, sirius-black
    1965 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
    tags: harry-potter, hogwarts, j-k-rowling
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Swish and flick.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: harry-potter, sorcer, stone
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    J.K. Rowling
    “We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: fate, harry-potter, inspirational
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    J.K. Rowling
    “You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: dumbledore, harry-potter
    442 likes



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