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  • #1
    Roald Dahl
    “I shall never have a bath again," I said.
    "Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child." It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #2
    Frank Beddor
    “I tell you to think black thoughts and you come up with that?!" the lieutenant had screamed. "Is a guinea pig bad? Do you consider a guinea pig the representation of all that is evil?"

    Maybe... if it's an evil guinea pig.”
    Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

  • #3
    Frances Hardinge
    “Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.”
    Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

  • #4
    “I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.”
    Ellen DeGeneres

  • #5
    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #6
    Lemony Snicket
    “Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival

  • #7
    Lemony Snicket
    “Sometimes you are suspicious because of something, and sometimes you are suspicious because of nothing. This incident began in the library, where I could find nothing good to read. This was suspicious.”
    Lemony Snicket, File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents

  • #8
    Charles M. Schulz
    “Happiness is a warm puppy.”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #9
    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #10
    I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
    “I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #11
    Lemony Snicket
    “Don't talk, Snicket," Theodora said. "Fools talk while wise people listen, so listen up and I'll tell you how we will solve this case sensibly and properly.”
    Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

  • #12
    Lemony Snicket
    “Nobody wants to hear that you will try your best. It is the wrong thing to say. It is like saying 'I probably won't hit you with a shovel.' Suddenly everyone is afraid you will do the opposite.”
    Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

  • #13
    J.K. Rowling
    “Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #15
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
    W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
    Mark Twain

  • #17
    Will Rogers
    “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
    Will Rogers

  • #18
    Michael Bond
    “Please look after this bear.”
    Michael Bond, A Bear Called Paddington

  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
    Mark Twain

  • #20
    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #21
    Anne Lamott
    “Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.”
    Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

  • #22
    Harun Yahya
    “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.”
    Harun Yahya

  • #23
    Henry Ward Beecher
    “If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.”
    Henry Ward Beecher

  • #24
    Lloyd Alexander
    “We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.”
    Lloyd Alexander

  • #25
    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    Lloyd Alexander

  • #26
    Kate DiCamillo
    “There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.”
    Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

  • #27
    Geoff   Jones
    “like a building, but he saw only dark”
    Geoff Jones, The Dinosaur Four

  • #28
    J.M. Barrie
    “Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.”
    J M Barrie

  • #29
    Camron Wright
    “The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb”
    Camron Wright, The Rent Collector

  • #30
    “A bird doesn't sing because he has an answer-he sings because he has a song.”
    Joan Walsh Anglund, A Cup of Sun: A Book of Poems



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