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“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― Roald Dahl

“Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)”
― Horace, The Satires of Horace

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
― Aristotle

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“Where you are depends on how you get there.”
― Robert Munsch

“Here is a book of tongues.
Take it. (Dark leaves invade the air.)
Beware! I now know a language so beautiful and lethal
My mouth bleeds when I speak it.”
― Gwendolyn MacEwen, The Poetry of Gwendolyn Macewen. Selected and Introduced by Margaret Atwood

“Actually even the worst childhood is always enchanted, how awful.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“A marriage of commitment and knowledge produces dignified work.”
― Jedediah Purdy

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.”
― Dr. Seuss