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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #2
    C.S. Lewis
    “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #3
    Veronica Roth
    “Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other”
    Veronica Roth

  • #4
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

  • #5
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #6
    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #7
    Daniel Pennac
    “Reader's Bill of Rights

    1. The right to not read

    2. The right to skip pages

    3. The right to not finish

    4. The right to reread

    5. The right to read anything

    6. The right to escapism

    7. The right to read anywhere

    8. The right to browse

    9. The right to read out loud

    10. The right to not defend your tastes”
    Daniel Pennac

  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #9
    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

  • #10
    Russell T. Davies
    “Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!

    (from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)”
    Russell T. Davies

  • #11
    Sarah J. Maas
    “No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #12
    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.”
    Laurell K. Hamilton

  • #13
    Beth Revis
    “A leader doesn't make pawns - he makes people.”
    Beth Revis, Across the Universe

  • #14
    Patricia Briggs
    “Some people are like Slinkies. They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.”
    Patricia Briggs, Iron Kissed

  • #15
    Patricia Briggs
    “Never trust a mechanic who drives new cars. They're either charging too much money for their work, or they can't keep an old car running - maybe both.”
    Patricia Briggs, Blood Bound

  • #16
    Patricia Briggs
    “Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.”
    Patricia Briggs, Moon Called

  • #17
    Patricia Briggs
    “My grandfather would have loved to have met you," he told her huskily. "He would have called you 'She Moves Trees Out of His Path.' "

    She looked lost, but his da laughed. He'd known the old man, too.

    "He called me 'He Who Must Run into Trees,'" Charles explained, and in a spirit of honesty, a need for his mate to know who he was, he continued, "or sometimes 'Running Eagle.' "

    " 'Running Eagle'?" Anna puzzled it over, frowning at him. "What's wrong with that?"

    "Too stupid to fly," murmured his father with a little smile.”
    Patricia Briggs, Hunting Ground

  • #18
    Patricia Briggs
    “Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe.”
    Patricia Briggs, Cry Wolf

  • #19
    Patricia Briggs
    “One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.”
    Patricia Briggs, Bone Crossed

  • #20
    Patricia Briggs
    “It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.”
    Patricia Briggs

  • #21
    Patricia Briggs
    “His heart's occupied elsewhere," said Ben from behind me. "And even if it weren't he's not interested in your kind. But, I'm available and ready."
    "You don't have a heart," I told him. "Just a gaping hole where it should have been."
    "All the more reason for you to give me yours."
    I pounded my forehead against Warren 's back. "Tell me Ben's not flirting with me."
    "Hey," said Ben sounding hurt. "I was talking cannibalism, not romance.”
    Patricia Briggs, Blood Bound

  • #22
    Patricia Briggs
    “A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young girl who'd been kidnapped by an evil witch and a drug lord.”
    Patricia Briggs, Moon Called

  • #23
    Patricia Briggs
    “He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.”
    Patricia Briggs, River Marked

  • #24
    Patricia Briggs
    “The warmth of his body shouldn’t have felt good. He was angry and every muscle was tense. It was like being leaned on by a very heavy, warm brick. A sexy brick.”
    Patricia Briggs, Iron Kissed

  • #25
    Patricia Briggs
    “There was something about that man when he was all angry and dangerous that got my blood up. Sometimes my survival instincts are not what they should be.”
    Patricia Briggs

  • #26
    Lewis Carroll
    “Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
    Lewis Carroll , Alice in Wonderland

  • #27
    Hermann Hesse
    “I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
    Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

  • #28
    Nelson Mandela
    “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
    Nelson Mandela

  • #29
    John Irving
    “We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”
    John Irving, Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

  • #30
    E.M. Forster
    “I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.”
    E.M. Forster



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