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“When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen King

“Adults are only kids grown up”
― Walt Disney Company

“No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.”
― P.T. Barnum

“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank

“As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that you're pure within and will find happiness once more.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it”
― Roald Dahl

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Books. Cats. Life is good.”
― T.S. Eliot

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”
― Edvard Munch

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

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I'll belong to libraries wherever I go. Maybe eventually I'll belong to libraries on other planets.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

“Books do furnish a room.”
― Anthony Powell, Dance to the Music of Time

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.”
― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies

“It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it’s no good at all if you don’t have a plan for tomorrow.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”
― Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“It's the imperfections that make things beautiful”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis