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“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

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

“Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love...”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.”
― Ovid

“All things change; nothing perishes.”
― Ovid

“You don't have anything
if you don't have the stories.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

“To light a candle is to cast a shadow...”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“What good is power when you're too wise to use it?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

“There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“As for myself, I am splintered by great waves. I am coloured glass from a church window long since shattered. I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

“Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.”
― Jeanette Winterson