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  • #1
    Jessie Burton
    “Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.”
    Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

  • #2
    Roald Dahl
    “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #3
    Roald Dahl
    “Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #4
    Jennifer A. Nielsen
    “Nobody gives you respect in this life. You must take it, you must earn it, and then you must hold it sacred, because no matter how hard respect is to attain, it can be lost in an instant.”
    Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Shadow Throne

  • #5
    L.M. Montgomery
    “My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #6
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Believe in Your Heart

    Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #7
    Roald Dahl
    “A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it”
    Roald Dahl

  • #8
    Stephen  King
    “Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #9
    Frances Hardinge
    “The world is like a broken wrist that healed the wrong way, and will never be the same again.”
    Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

  • #10
    Frances Hardinge
    “It has made me what I am. When every door is closed, one learns to climb through windows. Human nature, I suppose.”
    Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree

  • #11
    Frances Hardinge
    “We thought ourselves kings of the ages. Now we find that all our civilisation has been nothing but a brief, brightly lit nursery, where we have played with paper crowns and wooden sceptres.”
    Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree

  • #12
    Anthony Doerr
    “War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.”
    Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

  • #13
    Lemony Snicket
    “Sometimes words are not enough.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #14
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make you feel warm and safe, even if you are in the middle of a windy valley high up in the mountains.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #15
    Lemony Snicket
    “A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

  • #16
    Lemony Snicket
    “How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?”
    Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

  • #17
    Lemony Snicket
    “The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

  • #18
    Pierce Brown
    “Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”
    Pierce Brown, Golden Son

  • #19
    Victoria Schwab
    “I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.”
    Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

  • #20
    Shams Tabrizi
    “Wherever you go, east, west, north or south, think of it as a journey into yourself! The one who travels into itself travels the world.”
    Shams Tabrizi

  • #21
    Charles Dickens
    “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
    Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

  • #22
    Elisabetta Gnone
    “Nobody knows, what fate brings with it”
    Elisabetta Gnone, W.I.T.C.H all comics
    tags: witch

  • #23
    “Dreamers dream. Readers read. Writers write. I was born to be all three.”
    Terri Costola

  • #24
    Sarah J. Maas
    “You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #25
    “كلما انطفأ حلمك خلق الله لك حلماً أجمل و كلما بهتت في قلبك ذكرى صنع الله لك ذكرى أروع”
    علي بن جابر الفيفي, لأنك الله: رحلة إلى السماء السابعة

  • #26
    Emily Dickinson
    “I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #27
    Emily Dickinson
    “Hope is the thing with feathers
    That perches in the soul
    And sings the tune without the words
    And never stops at all.”
    Emily Dickinson



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