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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #3
    Rudyard Kipling
    “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
    Rudyard Kipling

  • #4
    Diane Winger
    “Paulette told me she thinks Sylvia isn’t hooking any more, and I finally figured out what that means. I’ve also learned why several of my housemates have perpetual runny, and sometimes bloody noses. Paul demonstrated how he arranges the white powder on a mirror laid on the kitchen table, but I declined his invitation to try it out. Too scary.”
    Diane Winger, The Abandoned Girl

  • #5
    Christian Cameron
    “Proper job”
    Christian Cameron, The Green Count

  • #6
    John Gwynne
    “Sometimes the only answer is blood and steel”
    John Gwynne, A Time of Dread

  • #7
    John Gwynne
    “Both the brave man and the coward feel the same. The only difference between them is that the brave man faces his fear, does not run.”
    John Gwynne, Malice

  • #8
    John Gwynne
    “Fight me if you wish, but know this, I am old for a reason”
    John Gwynne, A Time of Dread

  • #9
    John Gwynne
    “To my thinking, though, it’s what happens before death that’s important. All of us die. How many really live?”
    John Gwynne, Wrath

  • #10
    Salman Rushdie
    “Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to supplant your own ... then you might as well be dead.”
    Salman Rushdie

  • #11
    Richard Matheson
    “That which you believe becomes your world.”
    Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

  • #12
    Jane Rule
    “The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.”
    Jane Rule

  • #13
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #14
    Albert Camus
    “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
    Albert Camus

  • #15
    Matthew J. Sullivan
    “Something’s wrong in the air, you know, when a book costs less than a bullet. Or a Coke. Values-wise. Lydia”
    Matthew J. Sullivan, Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore

  • #16
    Holly Black
    “It is my belief that books are living things.... And as living things, they need to be protected.”
    Holly Black

  • #17
    J.K. Rowling
    “Training for the ballet, Potter?" yelled Malfoy.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #18
    Leigh Bardugo
    “This is the problem with making a thing forbidden. It does nothing but build an ache in the heart.”
    Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

  • #19
    “I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.”
    R.J. Palacio, Wonder

  • #20
    Stephen Fry
    “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
    Stephen Fry

  • #21
    Ernest Cline
    “Going outside is highly overrated.”
    Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

  • #22
    John Kennedy Toole
    “I really don't have the time to discuss the errors of your value judgements.”
    john kennedy toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

  • #23
    Andy Weir
    “I'm not talking about faith in God, I'm talking about faith in Mark Watney”
    Andy Weir, The Martian

  • #24
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
    Rumi

  • #25
    “If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world”
    Elaine S. Dalton

  • #26
    Kevin Ansbro
    “A life without friends is like a sky without stars.”
    Kevin Ansbro

  • #27
    Traci Chee
    “If you're reading this, then maybe you know you ought to read everything. And maybe you know you ought to read deeply. Because there's witchery in these words and spellwork in the spine.”
    Traci Chee, The Reader

  • #28
    John Muir
    “In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
    John Muir

  • #29
    Guy Gavriel Kay
    “And surely, surely, if we are not simply animals that live to fight, there must be a reason for bloodshed.”
    Guy Gavriel Kay, The Lions of Al-Rassan
    tags: war

  • #30
    Greg Chivers
    “My nose wrinkles at the reek of the trickle of data flowing to the device in his hands; no security system devised by man can withstand the relentless destructive pressure of boredom.”
    Greg Chivers, The Crying Machine



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