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“You can’t just decide to be happy.”

“No, you can’t. But you can sure as hell decide to be miserable. Is that what you want?”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“The difference between that man and me," Alan Mendelsohn said, "is that I am a connoisseur, and he is a fanatic.”
― Daniel Pinkwater, Alan Mendelsohn, The Boy from Mars

“Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Eat pudding. Books are good. Eat pudding. If kids read a lot. Eat pudding. They'll get so they can think clearly. Eat pudding. And if enough kids read and think. Eat pudding. We will have world peace. Eat pudding. Thank you very much. Eat pudding.”
― Daniel Pinkwater, Fish Whistle: Little Short Essays by Daniel Pinkwater

“I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett , The Secret Garden