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“There is a fine line between a genius and an idiot and that line is possibility.”
― Mao Ni

“Some books should be tasted some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice-cream you ate while you were reading it … yes, books are like flypapers. Memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“Meggie took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange – familiar voices, friends that never quarrelled with her, clever, powerful friends, daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had travelled far and wide.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“A thousand enemies outside the house
are better than one within. Arab proverb”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“Why do grown-ups think it’s easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don’t they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“Words are immortal – until someone comes along and burns them.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“An author can be seen as three things: a storyteller, a teacher or a magician – but the magician, the enchanter is in the ascendant.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“If you are a dreamer, come in If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A Hope-er, a Pray-er, a Magic Bean buyer, If you’re a pretender, come sit by my fire For we have some flax-golden tales to spin Come in! Come in!
Shel Silverstein”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“Do not dumb down your art for dumb people.”
― Nicole Pierman

“We need a little more anti-authority and a little less oblivious obedience.”
― Nicole Pierman

“Many authors write as a form of activism, and that's perfectly acceptable because that's their absolute right to do so.

What's not acceptable is brutally attacking authors that write as a form of artistry or entertainment.”
― Nicole Pierman

“The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.”
― Corey Taylor, Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good

“Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.”
― Corey Taylor, Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good

“I'm Irish!...When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my lungs, and when I am dead I shall be deader than anybody.”
― Morgan Llywelyn

“All stories are true. But some of them never happened.”
― James A. Owen, The Search for the Red Dragon

“She enjoys rain for its wetness, winter for its cold, summer for its heat. She loves rainbows as much for fading as for their brilliance. It is easy for her, she opens her heart and accepts everything.”
― Morgan Llywelyn, Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“Memory is a mean thing, slicing at you from the harshest angles, dipping your consciousness into the wrong colors again and again. A moment of humiliation, or devastation, or absolute rage, to be rewound and replayed, spinning a thread that wraps around the brain, knotting itself into something of a noose. It won't exactly kill you, but it makes you feel the squeeze of every horrible moment. How do you stop it? How do you work the mind free?”
― Emily X.R. Pan, The Astonishing Color of After

“The sages compared a spider’s web to man’s lust for land, gold and women. The spider spins its web and waits. A fly comes from somewhere and gets caught in it. The spider pulls the fly in slowly and devours it. The three kinds of lust were like that.”
― Kalki, Ponniyin Selvan - All Volumes

“When you notice someone does something toxic the first time, don't wait for the second time before you address it or cut them off.

Many survivors are used to the "wait and see" tactic which only leaves them vulnerable to a second attack. As your boundaries get stronger, the wait time gets shorter. You never have justify your intuition.”
― Shahida Arabi

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“If someone was going to hell, Kundavai would stop him and take him to heaven. That's one kind of power. But do you know what Nandini would do? It must be said that her power goes a step further. She would convince him that hell is heaven, and make him jump happily into hell!”
― Kalki, Ponniyin Selvan - All Volumes

“Religious leaders should keep to religion. If they interfere in politics, it spells doom for religion as well as for the kingdom.”
― Kalki, Ponniyin Selvan - All Volumes

“the fish that live in the water are better than human beings who live on land or in the forest. They don't talk viciously. They swim and float in the deep sea and spend their time so happily.”
― Kalki, Ponniyin Selvan - All Volumes

“A person's nature is determined by the characteristics he inherits through his birth. It is modified by circumstances, by ways of living and by experiences.”
― Kalki, Ponniyin Selvan - All Volumes

“Riding an elephant is very difficult. It’s like ascending a throne: to climb up and sit on it is a strenuous task and getting down from it is the most difficult of all! Still, one has to go through such experiences sometimes”
― Kalki, Ponniyin Selvan - All Volumes

“It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Nothing lasts forever.”
― Sidney Sheldon