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“What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Over the Teacups

“Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes

“I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.”
― William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake

“Folks like to talk about revenge like it’s a righteous thing but it’s just hate in a nicer suit,”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“To state quite simply what we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“And this means that time is a mystery, and not even a thing, and no one has ever solved the puzzle of what time is, exactly. and so, if you get lost in time it is like being lost in a desert, except that you can't see the desert because it is not a thing. And this is why I like timetables, because they make sure you don't get lost in time”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“The enemy would love for you to worry about things that are never going to happen. He would love for you to miss the beauty of this day because you’re so anxious about tomorrow. Don’t fall into that trap.”
― Joel Osteen

“Love is not weakness. It's the bravest act of our lives.”
― Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“Books are filled with human thoughts and feelings. People suffering, people who are sad or happy, laughing with joy. By reading their words and their stories, by experiencing them together, we learn about the hearts and minds of other people besides ourselves. Thanks to books, it’s possible to learn not only about the people around us every day, but people living in totally different worlds.”
― Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

“Time is the water, Charlie. Life is just the bridge it flows under.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“the Christian Right and radical Islamists, although locked in a holy war, increasingly mirror each other. They share the same obsessions. They do not tolerate other forms of belief or disbelief. They are at war with artistic and cultural expression. They seek to silence the media. They call for the subjugation of women. They promote severe sexual repression, and they seek to express themselves through violence.”
― Chris Hedges, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America

“As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.”
― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

“Attachment, the cause of all suffering, so the Buddhists say. To cling to what you have, what you have had, the life you have known, the handful of people and places you have ever really loved, to cling and not let go. Never relenting, never accepting, becoming all the time more enmeshed, holding harder, loving and hating more.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it.”
― Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea