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  • #1
    Anna Sewell
    “It is good people who make good places.”
    Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

  • #2
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #3
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #4
    Stephen  King
    “We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
    Stephen King, It

  • #5
    Stephen  King
    “Your hair is winter fire
    January embers
    My heart burns there, too.”
    Stephen King, It

  • #6
    Stephen  King
    “We all float down here!”
    Stephen King, It

  • #7
    Stephen  King
    “Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.”
    Stephen King, It (Eso)

  • #8
    Lisa Jewell
    “They weren’t bad books,” Phin countered patiently. “They were books that you didn’t enjoy. It’s not the same thing at all. The only bad books are books that are so badly written that no one will publish them. Any book that has been published is going to be a ‘good book’ for someone.”
    Lisa Jewell, The Family Upstairs

  • #9
    Elton John
    “Like I said, sometimes a gut feeling is the most important thing; sometimes you have to trust fate.”
    Elton John, Me

  • #10
    Russell T. Davies
    “Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!

    (from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)”
    Russell T. Davies

  • #11
    Steven Moffat
    “Bow ties are cool.”
    Steven Moffat

  • #12
    Brian Selznick
    “I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
    Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

  • #13
    Brian Selznick
    “Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.”
    Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

  • #14
    Lemony Snicket
    “I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

  • #15
    Lemony Snicket
    “...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

  • #16
    David Walliams
    “All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.”
    David Walliams, Gangsta Granny

  • #17
    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

  • #18
    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

  • #19
    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #20
    Stephen  King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #21
    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #22
    Markus Zusak
    “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #23
    Markus Zusak
    “I am haunted by humans.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #24
    Markus Zusak
    “It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #25
    Steven Moffat
    “We're all stories, in the end.”
    Steven Moffat

  • #26
    Steven Moffat
    “Amy Pond: 'I thought... well, I started to think you were just a madman with a box.'
    The Doctor: 'Amy Pond, there's something you better understand about me, 'cause it's important and one day your life may depend on it. [He Smiles] I am definitely a madman with a box.”
    Steven Moffat

  • #27
    Stephen  King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    Stephen King

  • #28
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #29
    C.S. Lewis
    “Things never happen the same way twice.”
    C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

  • #30
    C.S. Lewis
    “Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.”
    C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian



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