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  • #1
    Craig Lancaster
    “The complaint lies with me, not with you. I never could find a way to make you proud of me, and at some point, I think I stopped trying. When you were here, I blamed you for that. I think now, the failure is mine... It occurs to me that death is a funny thing - not funny in a laughter sort of way, but in a twisty sort of way. It's the people who are left behind who have to grapple with the regret. The one who is gone is just gone. Wherever you are... I hope you have regret about what happened yesterday.”
    Craig Lancaster, 600 Hours of Edward

  • #2
    Roald Dahl
    “It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”
    Roald Dahl, The Witches

  • #3
    “A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.”
    Anonymous

  • #4
    Stephen Fry
    “An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.”
    Stephen Fry

  • #5
    Michelle Magorian
    “I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary,' she said, sticking her chin in the air.”
    Michelle Magorian, Good Night, Mr. Tom

  • #6
    Marian Keyes
    “When God closes one door, He slams another in your face”
    Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story

  • #7
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
    Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

  • #8
    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    Terry Pratchett, Jingo

  • #9
    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #10
    Terry Pratchett
    “In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #11
    Neil Gaiman
    “[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #12
    Terry Pratchett
    “Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
    Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

  • #13
    Terry Pratchett
    “I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
    Death thought about it.
    CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
    Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

  • #14
    Craig Lancaster
    “I prefer facts, but sometimes sense is all you have to go on.”
    Craig Lancaster, 600 Hours of Edward

  • #15
    “On the third day of their honeymoon, infamous environmental activist Stewie Woods and his new bride, Annabel Bellotti, were spiking trees in the forest when a cow exploded and blew them up. Until then, their marriage had been happy.”
    C.J. Box, Savage Run

  • #16
    “In Joe’s experience, the person who talked the most very often had the least to say.”
    C.J. Box

  • #17
    Craig Lancaster
    “That's the problem with belief: If you rely on it too heavily, you have a lot of picking up to do after you find out you were wrong.”
    Craig Lancaster, 600 Hours of Edward

  • #18
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #19
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #20
    Jodi Picoult
    “If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?”
    Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

  • #21
    Suzanne Collins
    “Katniss, the girl who was on fire!”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #22
    Suzanne Collins
    “District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #23
    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #24
    Jasper Fforde
    “If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
    Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

  • #25
    Jasper Fforde
    “Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.”
    Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

  • #26
    Jasper Fforde
    “Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.”
    Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

  • #27
    Jasper Fforde
    “The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.”
    Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

  • #28
    Jasper Fforde
    “She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe.”
    Jasper Fforde, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

  • #29
    Agatha Christie
    “The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
    Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

  • #30
    Agatha Christie
    “Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.”
    Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles



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