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“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

“Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.”
― Wordsworth

“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)”
― E.E. Cummings

“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
― E.E. Cummings

“Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
― E.E. Cummings

“I hope your bacon burns.”
― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle

“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

“I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes."
"Those are spiders.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, The Merlin Conspiracy

“There is very seldom any true secret.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Deep Secret

“Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Hexwood

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“Everything that happens before Death is what counts.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.”
― Alexandre Dumas