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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #3
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #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
    Alan Bennett
    “The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
    Alan Bennett, The History Boys

  • #6
    Haruki Murakami
    “The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.”
    Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

  • #7
    Charlotte Brontë
    “the horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #8
    “Maybe you just have to live for the small things, like being called pretty or someone picking up the pen you dropped or laughing so hard that your stomach hurts. Maybe that's all that really matters at the end of the day.”
    Tianna Kavanagh

  • #9
    Danielle Steel
    “Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
    Danielle Steel, The Gift

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    Margaret Mead
    “Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.”
    Margaret Mead

  • #12
    “Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
    Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

  • #13
    Ann Rule
    “There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.”
    Ann Rule

  • #14
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Reading brings us unknown friends”
    Honore de Balzac

  • #15
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
    P.G. Wodehouse

  • #16
    Evelyn Waugh
    “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

  • #17
    Marcel Proust
    “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #18
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
    Rumi Jalalud-Din

  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”
    Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad

  • #20
    David  Mitchell
    “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #21
    Haruki Murakami
    “Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #22
    Mo Willems
    “If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
    Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

  • #23
    Nikolai Gogol
    “...nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book...”
    Nickolai Gogol

  • #24
    Gillian Flynn
    “There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.”
    Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

  • #25
    Gillian Flynn
    “Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.”
    Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

  • #26
    Gillian Flynn
    “Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.”
    Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

  • #27
    Jules Renard
    “Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”
    Jules Renard

  • #28
    Johanna Lindsey
    “Do for yourself, for no one else will.”
    Johanna Lindsey, A Heart so Wild

  • #29
    Maud Hart Lovelace
    “She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.”
    Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

  • #30
    Annie Dillard
    “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
    Annie Dillard, The Living



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