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  • #1
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.”
    Patrick Rothfuss

  • #2
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    “Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”
    Elizabeth Hardwick

  • #3
    Walt Whitman
    “Resist much, obey little.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #4
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #5
    “The world belongs to those who read.”
    Rick Holland

  • #6
    Josh Lanyon
    “The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.”
    Josh Lanyon, The Dickens with Love

  • #7
    Jackson Pearce
    “Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.”
    Jackson Pearce

  • #8
    William Godwin
    “He that loves reading has everything within his reach.”
    William Godwin

  • #9
    Ruth Rendell
    “Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
    Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone

  • #10
    Gary Paulsen
    “I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”
    Gary Paulsen, Shelf Life: Stories by the Book

  • #11
    Tracy Chevalier
    “It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.”
    Tracy Chevalier

  • #12
    David  Mitchell
    “A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #14
    Stephen Chbosky
    “And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #15
    P.C. Cast
    “Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.”
    P.C. Cast, Betrayed

  • #16
    “Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.”
    Julie Anne Peters, Keeping You a Secret

  • #17
    Erin Morgenstern
    “He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. And he is not in the position to do any rescuing of his own.”
    Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

  • #18
    Walt Whitman
    “Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
    And why should I not speak to you?”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #19
    Jennifer E. Smith
    “What are you really studying?"
    He leans back to look at her. "The statistical probability of love at first sight."
    "Very funny," she says. "What is it really?"
    "I'm serious."
    "I don't believe you."
    He laughs, then lowers his mouth so that it's close to her ear. "People who meet in airports are seventy-two percent more likely too fall for each other than people who meet anywhere else.”
    Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

  • #20
    Jennifer E. Smith
    “He’s like a song she can’t get out of her head. Hard as she tries, the melody of their meeting runs through her mind on an endless loop, each time as surprisingly sweet as the last, like a lullaby, like a hymn, and she doesn’t think she could ever get tired of hearing it.”
    Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

  • #21
    Jennifer E. Smith
    “Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.”
    Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
    tags: love

  • #22
    J.K. Rowling
    “Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #23
    Neil Gaiman
    “The Doctor: Sorry, do you have a name?
    Idris: Seven hundred years and finally he asks.
    The Doctor: But what do I call you?
    Idris: I think you call me... Sexy?
    The Doctor: [embarrassed] Only when we're alone.
    Idris: We are alone.
    The Doctor: Oh. Come on then, Sexy.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #24
    J.K. Rowling
    “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #25
    Laini Taylor
    “Once upon a time, an angel lay dying in the mist.

    And a devil knelt over him and smiled.”
    Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

  • #26
    Judy Garland
    “Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
    Judy Garland

  • #27
    Umberto Eco
    “We live for books.”
    Umberto Eco

  • #28
    George R.R. Martin
    “Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

  • #29
    George R.R. Martin
    “You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first, we'll live.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

  • #30
    Charles Nodier
    “A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.”
    Charles Nodier



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