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“People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
― Mo Yan

“Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”
― Robert Jordan

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“In the end, I stopped worrying about how strange you seemed. I realized that it didn't really matter if I understood you, because I trusted you.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“You hate change. I hate it too. But things can't stay the same- and that's well, for when nothing changes in your life, it's as good as being dead”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.”
― Tolkein

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“A demon, if you prefer the term; although to be honest, the difference between god and a demon is really only a matter of perspective.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“After all, words are what remain when all the deeds have been done. Words can shatter faith; start a war; change the course of history. A story can make your heart beat faster; topple walls; scale mountains - hey, a story can even raise the dead. And that's why the King of Stories ended up being the King of the gods; because writing history and making history are only the breadth of a page apart.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”
― Robert Jordan

“The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.”
― Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“Well, everyone lies. The difference between a hero and a villain is whether anyone believes him.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“That's the trouble with answers. They're never as exciting as the questions, somehow.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
― Robert Jordan

“Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
― Terry Southern

“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman

“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

“My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“But sorrow is unreliable in that way. When people don’t share it there’s a good chance that it will drive them apart instead.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow