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    Robert Jordan
    “Death is lighter than a feather. Duty, heavier than a mountain.”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World
    tags: fantasy-fiction, fantasy-literature
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All stories are ultimately about the fall.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: fantasy-fiction
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: fantasy, fear, kvothe, man-s, name, patrick-rothfuss, wind, wise
    3417 likes

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    George R.R. Martin
    “They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle-earth.”
    ― George R.R. Martin
    tags: fantasy, heaven
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: adventure, fantasy, tales
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: fantasy, insanity, madness, normal, reality, rothfuss
    545 likes

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    Robert Jordan
    “We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
    We ran to the sounds of the thunder.
    We danced among the lightning bolts,
    and tore the world asunder.”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn
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    Robert Jordan
    “The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World
    tags: fantasy
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    Robert Jordan
    “The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose above the great mountainous island of Tremalking. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Path of Daggers
    tags: fantasy
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss
    tags: fantasy, writing
    77 likes

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  • #11
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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  • #13
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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  • #14
    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    ― George R. R. Martin
    tags: books, reading
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    Anna Quindlen
    “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, journey, reading, travel
    5250 likes

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    John Waters
    “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
    ― John Waters
    tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: literature, reading, solitude
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    Arnold Lobel
    “Books to the ceiling,
    Books to the sky,
    My pile of books is a mile high.
    How I love them! How I need them!
    I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
    ― Arnold Lobel
    tags: books, reading
    1832 likes

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  • #19
    David Baldacci
    “Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
    ― David Baldacci, The Camel Club
    tags: books, peace, people, reading, world
    1659 likes

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  • #20
    David Mitchell
    “Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: books, escape, reading
    1588 likes

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  • #21
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: family, readers, reading
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  • #22
    Jasper Fforde
    “Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
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  • #23
    John Steinbeck
    “I guess there are never enough books.”
    ― John Steinbeck, A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia
    tags: books, reading, sufficiency
    1113 likes

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  • #24
    Joseph Addison
    “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
    ― Joseph Addison
    tags: mind, reading
    901 likes

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  • #25
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
    tags: books, readers, reading
    991 likes

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  • #26
    Karen Marie Moning
    “I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.”
    ― Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever
    tags: books, reading
    707 likes

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  • #27
    Lemony Snicket
    “They're book addicts.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill
    tags: books, humor, reading
    713 likes

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  • #28
    Emilie Buchwald
    “Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
    ― Emilie Buchwald
    tags: children, parenting, reading
    678 likes

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  • #29
    Joan Didion
    “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
    ― Joan Didion, The White Album
    919 likes

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  • #30
    Bill Watterson
    “Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
    tags: books, comfort, rain, reading, tea
    692 likes



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