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“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
― Studs Terkel

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“For a few moments I want to be 5 years old again. I want someone to plunk me down in front of a Disney movie and ask me if I want apple juice or grape.”
― Jennifer Richard Jacobson, Paper Things

“Ευλογημένοι όσοι αγαπούν και αγαπιούνται τρελά.”
― Ιωάννα Καρυστιάνη, Μικρά Αγγλία

“Ήταν η ίδια η ζωή που τα κανόνιζε έτσι, να βαστάει ένας έρωτας λίγο κι ένας καημός πολύ.”
― Ιωάννα Καρυστιάνη, Μικρά Αγγλία

“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”
― Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books

“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
― Albert Camus

“O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus, L’été

“Και δεν είναι που δεν θέλω να ζήσω.
Είναι το γαμώτο που δεν έζησα.
κι ούτε που θα σε ξαναδώ.”
― Katerina Gogou

“... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.”
― Roald Dahl, Switch Bitch

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.”
― Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

“We're never gonna be perfect, baby,
but we'll always be like this.
Whatever this is between us,
it's always going to be here.
I promise you.”
― Carian Cole, Talon

“You really don't recognize my name?"
He asks in disbelief. "Or me? Come on."
Ah. an ego is emerging, it seems.
"No, I'm sorry.”
― Carian Cole, Talon

“Do I make you happy, though?
I don't mean just sex, I mean, like everything?"
"You've redefined happy for me.”
― Carian Cole, Talon

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“Don't you ever do anything other than read?" said Chaol.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“«Ένας προσεταιρισμός είναι ο έρωτας, ένα κακοχωνεμένο παραμύθι. Που το καταλαβαίνεις όταν νιώσεις την πρώτη βαρυστομαχιά»”
― Γιώτα Γουβέλη, Ματωμένα εντελβάις

“Una buena novela para ella tenía que ser un viaje emocional y filosófico y además enseñarle vocabulario nuevo.”
― Joe Hill, Horns