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“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

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“Ah, my daughter,ʺ he said. ʺEighteen, and already youʹve been accused of murder, aided felons, and acquired a death count higher than most guardians will ever see.ʺ He paused. ʺI couldnʹt be prouder.”
― Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

“The spell. Victor said you had to want me... to care about me... for it to work." When he didn't say anything, I tried to grip his shirt, but my fingers were too weak. "Did you? Did you want me?"
His words came out thickly. "Yes, Roza. I did want you. I still do. I wish... we could be together."
"Then why did you lie to me?"
We reached the clinic, and he managed to open the door while still holding me. As soon as he stepped inside, he began yelling for help.
"Why did you lie?" I murmured again.
Still holding me in his arms, he looked down at me. I could hear voices and footsteps getting closer.
"Because we can't be together."
"Because of the age thing, right?" I asked. "Because you're my mentor?"
His fingertip gently wiped away a tear that had escaped down my cheek. "That's part of it," he said. "But also... well, you and I will both be Lissa's gaurdians someday. I need to protect her at all cost. If a pack of Strogoi come, I need to throw my body between them and her."
I know that. Of course that's what you have to do." The black sparkles were dancing in front of my eyes again. I was fading out.
"No. If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

“When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
― Wallace Stevens

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

“„Chceš zazpívat něco na dobrou noc?“
„M-hm,“ zamručela jsem, příliš unavená na dobrou noc.
„Kláro, jak to s tebou vypadá, od půl devátý do – Au! Dobře, už mlčím.“
Loktem do žaludku se to vypíná, to si musím zapamatovat.”
― Kateřina Petrusová, Pekáč buchet

“My jsme příběhy. My jsme mýty a pohádky. Jsme poezie. Naše životy jsou knihy. Knihy plné listů popsaných rukopisem vlastního štěstí a smutku, vlastních úspěchů a porážek. Jsme stránky popsané lidmi a událostmi, které nás potkaly. hýčkáme rukopisy těch, co nás okouzlili krásou svých těl a duší, těch, co nás obdarovali světlem a poznáním, rukopisy, které hřály a chladily. Rukopisy milovaných.
Jenže naše knihy skrývají v nitru i listy temnější než tiskařská čerň. Stránky poleptané bolestí a křivdami. Stránky bezohledně počmárané, znásilněné lidmi a událostmi, které vtrhly do našich životů jako potopa, jako mor. Stránky černé zaschlou krví utrpení a bezmoci. Stránky bolavé ostnatými dráty. Bez lidských tváří. jsme knihy plné otřesných věcí, o kterých jsme nikdy nechtěli psát. Kruté mýty a krvavé balady. Můžete je zkusit vymazat. Vymazat tiskařskou čerň. Můžete je zkusit vytrhnout. Vytrhnout si srdce z těla. Můžete je zkusit upálit. Ale je ten, kdo hází knihy do ohně, ještě člověkem?”
― hana andronikova, Zvuk slunečních hodin

“For me, the times I always regret are missed opportunities to say farewell to good people, to wish them long life and say to them in all sincerity, "You build and do not destroy; you sow goodwill and reap it; smiles bloom in the wake of your passing, and I will keep your kindness in trust and share it as occasion arises, so that your life will be a quenching draught of calm in a land of drought and stress." Too often I never get to say that when it should be said. Instead, I leave them with the equivalent of a "Later, dude!" only to discover there would be no later for us.”
― Kevin Hearne, Hammered

“Are you, are you coming to the tree?
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Strange things did happen here.
No stranger would let it be if we met up
At midnight in the hanging tree.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers.
"Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― W.B. Yeats

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
― A.A. Milne