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  • #1
    Joy Williams
    “She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
    Joy Williams

  • #2
    Markus Zusak
    “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #3
    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    George R. R. Martin

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    Alex Haley
    “Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
    Alex Haley

  • #6
    Veronica Roth
    “If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.”
    Veronica Roth, Allegiant

  • #7
    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “You don't buy all the clothes in the market. You choose slowly and carefully, asking the prices for each before buying. The same way you choose your friends, by looking into their lives carefully, before taking any as a companion, then dropping those that are not relevant.”
    Michael Bassey Johnson

  • #8
    Katherine Boo
    “Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.”
    Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

  • #9
    A.A. Milne
    “Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #10
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #11
    Jennifer Egan
    “I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”
    Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

  • #12
    “Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.”
    Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

  • #13
    Shel Silverstein
    “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

  • #14
    Tuli Kupferberg
    “When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”
    Tuli Kupferberg

  • #15
    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

  • #16
    Nora Roberts
    “Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
    Nora Roberts, Vision in White

  • #17
    Anne Enright
    “I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”
    Anne Enright, The Gathering

  • #18
    Douglas Adams
    “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

  • #19
    E.E. Cummings
    “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
    It's always our self we find in the sea.”
    e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

  • #20
    Robert Jordan
    “Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
    Robert Jordan

  • #21
    Ntozake Shange
    “Where there is a woman there is magic.”
    Ntozake Shange

  • #22
    Kate Mosse
    “We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.”
    Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts

  • #23
    Emma Donoghue
    “Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
    Emma Donoghue, Room

  • #24
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #25
    Nawal El Saadawi
    “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

  • #26
    Andrew Solomon
    “I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”
    Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

  • #27
    Neal Stephenson
    “See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,”
    Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

  • #28
    Susanna Clarke
    “And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”
    Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

  • #29
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: god, man, truth

  • #30
    Connor Franta
    “Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.”
    Connor Franta



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