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  • #1
    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #2
    J.K. Rowling
    “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #3
    J.K. Rowling
    “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #4
    Leo Tolstoy
    “I think... if it is true that
    there are as many minds as there
    are heads, then there are as many
    kinds of love as there are hearts.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #5
    Leo Tolstoy
    “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #6
    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

  • #7
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #8
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #9
    Mario Puzo
    “I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”
    Mario Puzo, The Godfather

  • #10
    Mario Puzo
    “Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.”
    Mario Puzo, The Godfather

  • #11
    Mario Puzo
    “Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.”
    Mario Puzo, The Godfather

  • #12
    Mario Puzo
    “Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.”
    Mario Puzo, The Godfather

  • #13
    Mario Puzo
    “I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.”
    Mario Puzo, The Godfather

  • #14
    Mario Puzo
    “A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
    Mario Puzo, The Godfather

  • #15
    Mario Puzo
    “Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.”
    Mario Puzo, The Godfather

  • #16
    Mario Puzo
    “Tom, don't let anybody kid you. It's all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every man has to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business. OK. But it's personal as hell. You know where I learned that from? The Don. My old man. The Godfather. If a bolt of lightning hit a friend of his the old man would take it personal. He took my going into the Marines personal. That's what makes him great. The Great Don. He takes everything personal Like God. He knows every feather that falls from the tail of a sparrow or however the hell it goes? Right? And you know something? Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.”
    Mario Puzo, The Godfather

  • #17
    Robin Sloan
    “Here’s a thing I believe about people my age: we are the children of Hogwarts, and more than anything, we just want to be sorted.”
    Robin Sloan, Sourdough

  • #18
    Leo Tolstoy
    “I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #19
    Robin Sloan
    “I have come to believe that food is history of the deepest kind. Everything we eat tells a tale of ingenuity and creation, domination and injustice-and does so more vividly than any other artifact, any other medium.”
    Robin Sloan, Sourdough

  • #20
    Robin Sloan
    “Baking, by contrast, was solving the same problem over and over again, because every time, the solution was consumed. I mean, really: chewed and digested. Thus, the problem was ongoing. Thus, the problem was perhaps the point.”
    Robin Sloan, Sourdough

  • #21
    Robin Sloan
    “feeding people is really freakin’ great. There’s nothing better.”
    Robin Sloan, Sourdough

  • #22
    Robin Sloan
    “Southeastern Michigan is flat, almost concave; here was a world with a z-axis.”
    Robin Sloan, Sourdough

  • #23
    J.K. Rowling
    “Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?"
    "Yes."
    "You called her a liar?"
    "Yes."
    "You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?"
    "Yes."
    "Have a biscuit, Potter.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #24
    J.K. Rowling
    “You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!"
    "What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #25
    J.K. Rowling
    “One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #26
    Colson Whitehead
    “The world may be mean, but people don't have to be, not if they refuse.”
    Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

  • #27
    Colson Whitehead
    “She wasn’t surprised when his character revealed itself—if you waited long enough, it always did. Like the dawn.”
    Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

  • #28
    Paul Kalanithi
    “I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”
    Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

  • #29
    Paul Kalanithi
    “Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.”
    Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

  • #30
    Paul Kalanithi
    “Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving.”
    Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air



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