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  • #1
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #2
    Mary Higgins Clark
    “Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.”
    Mary Higgins Clark, Loves Music, Loves to Dance

  • #3
    Francis Bacon
    “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
    Francis Bacon

  • #4
    Paul Auster
    “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
    Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

  • #5
    Stewart O'Nan
    “You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
    Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

  • #6
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

  • #7
    Clare Boothe Luce
    “Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
    Clare Boothe Luce

  • #8
    Seamus Heaney
    “If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
    Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney

  • #9
    Karen Blixen
    “I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
    Karen Blixen

  • #10
    Suzan-Lori Parks
    “And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.”
    Suzan-Lori Parks

  • #11
    L. Frank Baum
    “No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
    L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

  • #12
    Margaret Fuller
    “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
    Margaret Fuller

  • #13
    Elias Canetti
    “Relearn astonishment.”
    Elias Canetti

  • #14
    Stieg Larsson
    “Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
    Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

  • #15
    Edward Abbey
    “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
    Edward Abbey

  • #16
    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

  • #17
    Nora Ephron
    “Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #18
    Brian Jacques
    “Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
    Brian Jacques, Redwall

  • #19
    Francisco Cândido Xavier
    “‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
    Chico Xavier

  • #20
    Emma Donoghue
    “Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
    Emma Donoghue, Room

  • #21
    Astrid Lindgren
    “A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
    Astrid Lindgren

  • #22
    Harlan Coben
    “Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
    Harlan Coben, Promise Me

  • #23
    Nicholson Baker
    “Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
    Nicholson Baker

  • #24
    Ayn Rand
    “If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
    Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

  • #25
    Gertrude Stein
    “One must dare to be happy. ”
    Gertrude Stein

  • #26
    Mo Willems
    “If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
    Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

  • #27
    Ben Okri
    “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
    Ben Okri

  • #28
    “Manusia lebih tahu untuk menghargai setelah sesuatu itu pergi. Ketika ianya di sisi, semuanya dipandang sepi.”
    Sofuan Saadon, Anekdot Seorang Cikgu

  • #29
    Douglas Preston
    “We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.”
    Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence

  • #30
    John Hodgman
    “Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
    John Hodgman



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