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“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages.

I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and young, girl and boy, man and animal.

I pledge to use books to open windows to a thousand different worlds and to the thousand different faces of my own world.

I pledge to use books to make my universe spread much wider than the world I live in every day.

I pledge to treat my books like friends, visiting them all from time to time and keeping them close.”
― Cornelia Funke

“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Okay. I’m ready to move onto something else, like practicing with knives or defense against the dark arts. Cool things.”
“Did you just quote Harry Potter?”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Half-Blood

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Fiction Is My Addiction”
― Dr. Seuss

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

“No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“You see, but you do not observe.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia

“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.”
― Steven Moffat, A Study In Pink

“I am honest, and in this society that happens to be constituted as mean.”
― Eva Morgan, Locked

“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum