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  • #1
    Lemony Snicket
    “The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #2
    Jane Austen
    “And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #3
    Naomi Alderman
    “Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn't. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not. Tap on it and it's hollow. Look under the shells: it's not there.”
    Naomi Alderman, The Power

  • #4
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #5
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #6
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #7
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #8
    Angela Saini
    “All this intellectual jumping through hoops to maintain the status quo. All this to prove what they have always really wanted to know: that they are superior.

    Well, keep reaching, keep reaching. One day there will be nothing left to reach for.”
    Angela Saini, Superior: The Return of Race Science

  • #9
    Naomi Alderman
    “Have you thought about the evolutionary psychology of it? Men have evolved to be strong worker homestead-keepers, while women—with babies to protect from harm—have had to become aggressive and violent.”
    Naomi Alderman, The Power

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #11
    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #12
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #14
    Lemony Snicket
    “Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

  • #15
    Lemony Snicket
    “If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #16
    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #17
    Lemony Snicket
    “Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #18
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

  • #19
    Lemony Snicket
    “Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

  • #20
    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

  • #21
    Lemony Snicket
    “They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

  • #22
    Lemony Snicket
    “Neither were you [born yesterday], unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life. ”
    Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

  • #23
    Lemony Snicket
    “Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

  • #24
    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

  • #25
    Jane Austen
    “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #26
    Helen Fielding
    “It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
    Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

  • #27
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “I said probably they were just scared he was going to put ideas in our heads. She smiled. “Imagine that. A teacher, putting ideas in kids’ heads.”
    Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

  • #28
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between.”
    Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

  • #29
    Kaveh Akbar
    “The only people who speak in certainties are zealots and tyrants.”
    Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

  • #30
    Kaveh Akbar
    “Expendable” may seem a bad word to use to describe your own life, except I actually find it liberating. The way it vents away all pressure to become. How it asks only that you be.”
    Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!



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