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  • #1
    Laurie R. King
    “I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head...”
    Laurie R. King

  • #2
    Jacqueline Winspear
    “Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.”
    Jacqueline Winspear

  • #3
    Jacqueline Winspear
    “Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.”
    Jacqueline Winspear

  • #4
    Alan Bradley
    “Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.”
    Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

  • #5
    Alan Bradley
    “As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

    No ... eight days a week.”
    Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

  • #6
    Anna Deavere Smith
    “Each person has a literature inside them.”
    Anna Deavere Smith

  • #7
    Stephen  King
    “For readers, one of life’s most electrifying discoveries is that they are readers—not just capable of doing it (which Morris already knew), but in love with it. Hopelessly. Head over heels. The first book that does that is never forgotten, and each page seems to bring a fresh revelation, one that burns and exalts: Yes! That’s how it is! Yes! I saw that, too! And, of course, That’s what I think! That’s what I FEEL!”
    Stephen King, Finders Keepers

  • #8
    E.B. White
    “Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
    E.B. White

  • #9
    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #10
    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #11
    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #12
    Tim Winton
    “...the past is in us, and not behind us. Things are never over.”
    Tim Winton, The Turning

  • #13
    Katherine Rundell
    “I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.”
    Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

  • #14
    J.K. Rowling
    “What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.”
    J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #15
    René Char
    “I believe in the magic and authority of words.”
    René Char

  • #16
    Kate Brauning
    “Don’t let something make you miserable if you can do something about it. If that’s what makes you happy, go for it.”
    Kate Brauning, How We Fall

  • #17
    “Don't fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that's not where dreams get accomplished.”
    George Watsky

  • #18
    J.K. Rowling
    “Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #19
    Voltaire
    “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
    Voltaire

  • #20
    The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have
    “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
    Alice Walker

  • #21
    Amy Schumer
    “Being an introvert doesn’t mean you’re shy. It means you enjoy being alone. Not just enjoy it—you need it. If you’re a true introvert, other people are basically energy vampires. You don’t hate them; you just have to be strategic about when you expose yourself to them—like the sun. They give you life, sure, but they can also burn you and”
    Amy Schumer, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo

  • #22
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #23
    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #24
    Emma Chase
    “You shouldn’t be afraid of dying, Sarah—everyone does it. The only thing to be scared of is not living before you do.”
    Emma Chase, Royally Matched

  • #25
    Paul Auster
    “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
    Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

  • #26
    Books fall open, you fall in.
    “Books fall open, you fall in.”
    David T.W. McCord

  • #27
    Henry James
    “Of course I was under the spell, and the wonderful part is that, even at the time, I perfectly knew I was. But I gave myself up to it; it was an antidote to any pain, and I had more pains than one.”
    Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

  • #28
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    Theodore Roosevelt



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