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  • #1
    Stephen Vincent Benét
    “There is a wilderness we walk alone
    However well-companioned”
    Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star

  • #2
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #3
    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

  • #4
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
    Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

  • #5
    Émile Zola
    “I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.”
    Emile Zola

  • #6
    Sigmund Freud
    “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
    Sigmund Freud

  • #7
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin

  • #8
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #9
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #10
    Lars Kepler
    Mortui vivis docent - the dead teach the living.”
    Lars Kepler, The Hypnotist

  • #11
    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

  • #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
    Frank Schätzing
    “Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes.”
    Frank Schätzing

  • #14
    Ray Bradbury
    “A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #15
    Frank Schätzing
    “It was the mystery that biologists from Darwin onwards had been longing to solve. How could we understand the ability of fish and seals to survive in the cold dark waters of the Antarctic? How could humans see inside a biotope that was sealed with layers of ice? What would the Earth look like from the sky, if we crossed the Mediterranean on the back of a goose? How did it feel to be a bee? How could we measure the speed of an insect’s wings and its heartbeat, or monitor its blood pressure and eating patterns? What was the impact of human activities, like shipping noise or subsea explosions, on mammals in the depths? How could we follow animals to places where no human could venture?”
    Frank Schätzing, The Swarm: A Novel

  • #16
    Annie Proulx
    “You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
    Annie Proulx

  • #17
    Mo Yan
    “Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?”
    Mo Yan, Red Sorghum

  • #18
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

  • #19
    Brenna Yovanoff
    “The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.”
    Brenna Yovanoff, The Space Between

  • #20
    Brian L. Weiss
    “For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans.”
    Brian Weiss

  • #21
    Stephen Chbosky
    “I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #22
    Stephen Chbosky
    “We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #23
    David Levithan
    “If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.”
    David Levithan, Every Day

  • #24
    David Levithan
    “When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways.”
    David Levithan, Every Day

  • #25
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #26
    Caitlin Moran
    “I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.”
    Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

  • #27
    J.K. Rowling
    “Well, you're expelling us aren't you?" said Ron.
    "Not today, Mr. Weasley."
    Snape looked as though Christmas had been canceled.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets



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