"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

"It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction."
— Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic)

"Books may well be the only true magic."
— Alice Hoffman

"Jimmy Stewart is always and indisputably the best man in the world, unless Cary Grant should happen to show up."
— Marisa de los Santos (Love Walked In)

"Use your head; cut off theirs."
— Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide)

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."
— Jane Austen (Persuasion)

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

" If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
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— Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden)

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."
— Louisa May Alcott (Work: A Story of Experience)

"I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting."
— Edith Wharton

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time."
— Edith Wharton