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  • #1
    David  Mitchell
    “My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #2
    James    Dean
    “Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.”
    James Dean

  • #3
    James    Dean
    “Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.”
    James Dean
    tags: cars

  • #4
    Christopher Priest
    “Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't. The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige".”
    Christopher Priest, The Prestige

  • #5
    Markus Zusak
    “Even death has a heart.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #6
    Markus Zusak
    “She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on...”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #7
    Markus Zusak
    “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #8
    J.K. Rowling
    “Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    George Eliot
    “Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.”
    George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

  • #12
    J.R. Ward
    “You are a manipulator.
    I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.”
    J.R. Ward, Lover Eternal

  • #13
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

  • #14
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #15
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

  • #16
    William Shakespeare
    “Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry.
    Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
    Petruchio: My remedy is then, to pluck it out.
    Katherine: Ay, if the fool could find where it lies.
    Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail.
    Katherine: In his tongue.
    Petruchio: Whose tongue?
    Katherine: Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell.
    Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.”
    William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

  • #17
    George R.R. Martin
    “When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #18
    “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
    Anthony G. Oettinger

  • #19
    Groucho Marx
    “From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #20
    Dennis Lehane
    “The brain controls pain. It controls fear. Sleep. Empathy. Hunger. Everything we associate with the heart or the soul or the nervous system is actually controlled by the brain. Everything. What if you could control it?”
    Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

  • #21
    Dennis Lehane
    “How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” “I don’t know. How many?” “Eight.” “Why?” “Oh, stop overanalyzing it.”
    Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

  • #22
    “Roy: "Looks like it's starting to rain"

    Riza: "But..It's not raining..."

    Roy: "Yes it is. This is the rain.”
    Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 4

  • #23
    “Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.”
    Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1

  • #24
    “DONT CALL ME SMALL!!!!!!”
    Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 3

  • #25
    “So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness.
    To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood
    (Riza Hawkeye -- Fullmetal Alchemist)”
    Arakawa Hiromu

  • #26
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #27
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #29
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #30
    Suzanne Collins
    “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay



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