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  • #1
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #2
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #3
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #4
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #5
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I was a child and she was a child,
    In this kingdom by the sea,
    But we loved with a love that was more than love—
    I and my Annabel Lee—”
    Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee

  • #6
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “God has no religion.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #7
    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    Woody Allen

  • #8
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #9
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #10
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • #11
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
    Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
    Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
    One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
    One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
    One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #12
    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    Winston Churchill

  • #13
    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #14
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “History is written by the winners.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #15
    N.K. Jemisin
    “In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.”
    N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

  • #16
    N.K. Jemisin
    “For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.”
    N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

  • #17
    N.K. Jemisin
    “We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.”
    N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

  • #18
    N.K. Jemisin
    “Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.”
    N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season
    tags: home

  • #19
    N.K. Jemisin
    “Being useful to others is not the same thing as being equal.”
    N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate

  • #20
    Madeline Miller
    “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #21
    Madeline Miller
    “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #22
    Madeline Miller
    “When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #23
    Madeline Miller
    “We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #24
    Madeline Miller
    “He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #25
    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #26
    Lemony Snicket
    “The world is quiet here.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #27
    André Aciman
    “We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”
    André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

  • #28
    André Aciman
    “He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.”
    André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

  • #29
    André Aciman
    “People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don’t always like who they are.”
    André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

  • #30
    André Aciman
    “Is it better to speak or die?”
    André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name



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