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  • #1
    Lord Byron
    “In secret we met
    In silence I grieve,
    That thy heart could forget,
    Thy spirit deceive.”
    George Gordon Byron

  • #2
    W.G. Sebald
    “It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
    W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

  • #3
    Nora Ephron
    “What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #4
    Alexander Pope
    “Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
    Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

  • #5
    Margaret Drabble
    “Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
    Margaret Drabble

  • #6
    James Baldwin
    “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
    James Baldwin

  • #7
    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    Frederick Douglass

  • #8
    Christopher Paolini
    “Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
    Christopher Paolini, Eragon

  • #9
    Christopher Paolini
    “Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
    Christopher Paolini

  • #10
    Christopher Paolini
    “Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”
    Christopher Paolini, Eldest

  • #11
    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #12
    William Joyce
    “The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows.

    But stories all...”
    William Joyce, Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

  • #13
    William Joyce
    “To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.”
    William Joyce, Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

  • #14
    William Joyce
    “Keep moving forward.”
    William Joyce, Meet the Robinsons

  • #15
    Lewis Carroll
    “Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?”

    The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?”

    “I don’t know,” Alice answered.

    “Then,” said the cat, “it really doesn’t matter, does it?”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

  • #16
    J.M. Barrie
    “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #17
    Brian Jacques
    “Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
    Brian Jacques, Redwall

  • #18
    If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
    “If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
    Chinua Achebe

  • #19
    Lillian Hellman
    “People change and forget to tell each other.”
    Lillian Hellman

  • #20
    Anna Akhmatova
    “If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
    Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

  • #21
    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
    “I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.”
    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings



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