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#1

“What are you reading, my dear? A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

tags: lady, readers

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#2

“You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: humor, mess, pigsty

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#3

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

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#4

“I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

tags: dog, humor

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#5

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

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#6

“Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk."
"Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: calcifer, drunk, howl, sober

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#7

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

tags: salinger, stories

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#8

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

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#9

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#10

“I found a dead body in the cucumber patch,' I told them.

'How very like you,' Ophelia said, and went on preening her eyebrows.”
― Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

tags: humor

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#11

“No point in wasting time with false vanity when you possess the real thing.”
― Alan Bradley, Speaking from Among the Bones

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#12

“There's an unwritten law of the universe which assures that the thing you seek will always be found in the last place you look. It applies to everything in life from lost socks to misplaced poisons. . .”
― Alan Bradley, Speaking from Among the Bones

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#13

“You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

tags: inspirational

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#14

“Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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#15

“Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

tags: life, martel, of, pi, yann

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#16

“Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

tags: josie, michael

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#17

“You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

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#18

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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#19

“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: despair, hope

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#20

“There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: different-selves, interesting, personality, self-knowledge

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#21

“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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#22

“Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: imagination

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#23

“If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: calcifer

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#24

“I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: headcolds, howl

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#25

“In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: fairy-tale, once-upon-a-time

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#26

“My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: humor, humour, lying, salvation

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#27

“She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: the-witch-of-the-waste

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#28

“Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

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#29

“Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: sophie-life

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#30

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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