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“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

“When you give your heart to the ocean, you either drown, or spend your life wishing you had drowned.”
― Elizabeth Fama, Men Who Wish to Drown

“If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.”
― David Sedaris

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
― Ruth Reichl

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
― anthony burgess

“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.”
― Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea

“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 am a lover and have not found my thing to love.”
― Sherwood Anderson

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

“Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
― Sara Henderson

“Happy endings aren't for cowards.”
― Jill A. Davis, Girls' Poker Night

“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

“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
― Alice Munro

“She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers

“You can't lie to your soul.”
― Irvine Welsh, Porno

“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

“I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

“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

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

“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess