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  • John Connolly
    "For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be."
    — John Connolly (The Book of Lost Things)


  • Max Lucado
    "A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her."
    — Max Lucado


  • Rob Bell
    "Missions then is less about the transportation of God from one place to another and more about the identification of a God who is already there [...] You see God where others don't. And then you point him out. So the issue isn't so much taking Jesus to people who don't have him, but going to a place and pointing out to the people the creative, life-giving God who is already present in their midst. "
    — Rob Bell


  • Rob Bell
    "Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be."
    — Rob Bell (Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith)


  • Madeleine L'Engle
    "Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God."
    — Madeleine L'Engle


  • Madeleine L'Engle
    "If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation."
    — Madeleine L'Engle


  • Madeleine L'Engle
    "It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds."
    — Madeleine L'Engle


  • Madeleine L'Engle
    "I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly."
    — Madeleine L'Engle


  • Madeleine L'Engle
    "It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand."
    — Madeleine L'Engle


  • Madeleine L'Engle
    "In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own."
    — Madeleine L'Engle


  • Madeleine L'Engle
    "Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous."
    — Madeleine L'Engle


  • Madeleine L'Engle
    "We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes."
    — Madeleine L'Engle


  • Madeleine L'Engle
    "That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."
    — Madeleine L'Engle


  • Madeleine L'Engle
    "One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to have allowed the male sex to assume that mankind is masculine. It is not. It takes both male and female to make the image of God. The proper understanding of mankind is that it is only a poor, broken thing if either male or female is excluded."
    — Madeleine L'Engle (The Irrational Season)


  • Sarah Dessen
    "No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot."
    — Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)


  • Sarah Dessen
    "Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there."
    — Sarah Dessen


  • Sarah Dessen
    "You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it."
    — Sarah Dessen (Keeping the Moon)


  • Sarah Dessen
    "You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it."
    — Sarah Dessen


  • Christopher Paolini
    "Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. "
    — Christopher Paolini (Eragon)


  • Marcus Tullius Cicero
    "A room without books is like a body without a soul."
    — Marcus Tullius Cicero


  • Abraham Lincoln
    "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
    — Abraham Lincoln


  • Marilyn Monroe
    "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
    — Marilyn Monroe


  • Mae West
    "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
    — Mae West


  • Elie Wiesel
    "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
    — Elie Wiesel


  • 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 frost."
    — J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)


  • C.S. Lewis
    "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
    — C.S. Lewis


  • "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
    — Bessie Anderson Stanley


  • Jack Kerouac
    "[...] the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!' What did they call such young people in Goethe's Germany?"
    — Jack Kerouac (On the Road)


  • Jack Kerouac
    "Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry."
    — Jack Kerouac


  • Apple Computer Inc.
    "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
    — Apple Computer Inc.


  • Neil Gaiman
    "What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul."
    — Neil Gaiman (American Gods)


  • Neil Gaiman
    "May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't to forget make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself."
    — Neil Gaiman


  • Neil Gaiman
    "[D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read... "
    — Neil Gaiman


  • Neil Gaiman
    "Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us."
    — Neil Gaiman (Stardust)


  • Neil Gaiman
    "Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
    — Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)


  • Aristotle
    "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
    — Aristotle (Metaphysics)


  • C.S. Lewis
    "A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word "darkness" on the walls of his cell."
    — C.S. Lewis


  • "The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity."
    — Margaret Nadauld


  • "Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.

    Proverbs 4:23"
    — Various (Holy Bible)


  • Benjamin Franklin
    "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
    — Benjamin Franklin


  • Benjamin Franklin
    "Well done is better than well said."
    — Benjamin Franklin


  • Benjamin Franklin
    "Never ruin an apology with an excuse."
    — Benjamin Franklin


  • Benjamin Franklin
    "Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle."
    — Benjamin Franklin


  • Benjamin Franklin
    "I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."
    — Benjamin Franklin


  • "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the canidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy--to be followed by a dictatorship."
    — Lord Woodhouselee


  • "The big difference between my mom and me-- besides the fact that she is dead normal and I'm a magic-handling freak-- is that she's the real thing. She may have a slight problem seeing other people's points of view, but she's honest about it. She's a brass-bound bitch because she believes she knows best. I'm a brass-bound bitch because I don't want anyone getting close enough to find out what a whiny little knot of naked nerve endings I really am. "
    — Robin McKinley (Sunshine)


  • "I don't put up with being messed around, and I don't suffer fools gladly. The short version of that is that I'm a bitch. Trust me, I can provide character references."
    — Robin McKinley (Sunshine)


  • James Morrow
    "The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And yet it behooves us not to judge the unlettered too harshly. We must stay the impulse to write CHUCKLEHEAD above their doors and carve DOLT upon their tombstones."
    — James Morrow


  • Arthur Miller
    "Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!"
    — Arthur Miller (The Crucible)


  • Arthur Miller
    "If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to know much spiritual fulfillment. If, however, he measures it in terms of enjoying a sunrise, being warmed by a child's smile, or being able to help someone have a better day, then he is likely to know much spiritual fulfillment. "
    — Arthur Miller



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