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“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”
― Paul McCartney

“I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Libraries are our friends.”
― Neil Gaiman

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
― Colette

“You’ve got sex hair … or crazy cat lady hair. They’re remarkably similar.”
― Molly Harper, The Care and Feeding of Stray Vampires

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”
― Kurt Cobain

“My little old dog
a heart-beat
at my feet”
― Edith Wharton

“Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”
― Lena Dunham

“Throughout the day I often ask myself, Could I fall asleep right now? and the answer is always a resounding yes.”
― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"

“Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live.”
― Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
― André Brink

“This is the trouble with history. You can't see what's not there. You can look at an empty space and see that something's missing, but there's no way to know what it was.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

“When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.”
― Mary Higgins Clark

“People say friends don't destroy one another - what do they know about friends?”
― John Darnielle