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"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: reading
3,048 people liked it

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
— Stephen King

tags: reading, writing
937 people liked it

"Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise."
— Jane Austen (Emma)

56 people liked it

"Fas est ab hoste doceri.
One should learn even from one's enemies.
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— Publius Ovidius Naso (Metamorphoses)

tags: ancient, latin, philosophy
32 people liked it

"When some is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: comfort, crying, tears
161 people liked it

"People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere."
— Gabrielle Zevin

27 people liked it

"Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!"
— Jane Austen (Mansfield Park)

120 people liked it

"On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen..."
— Gabrielle Zevin (Elsewhere)

13 people liked it

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy

tags: humor
5,733 people liked it

"You forget all of it anyway. . . You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. . . You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They’re the last to go. And then once you’ve forgotten enough, you love someone else."
— Gabrielle Zevin (Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac)

32 people liked it

"They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so."
— Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning)

143 people liked it

"Ah" said Dumbledore gently, "Yes I thought we might hit that little snag!"
"Snag?" said Fudge, his voice still vibrating with joy. "I see no snag, Dumbledore!"
"Well," said Dumbledore apologetically, "I'm afraid I do."
"Oh, really?"
"Well it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to -- come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course -- but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

tags: disobediance, rebellion
265 people liked it

"As I am sure you know, when people say "It's my pleasure", they usually mean something along the lines of, "There's nothing on Earth I would rather do less."[...]"
— Lemony Snicket (The Penultimate Peril)

tags: humor, politeness
80 people liked it

"There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had."
— Gabrielle Zevin (Elsewhere)

15 people liked it

"The only love she inspires is the canine kind."
— Gabrielle Zevin

3 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,573 people liked it

"A good friend will always stab you in the front."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: betrayal, friends
685 people liked it

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: life
346 people liked it

"I already know how strong you are. You didn't have to break the furniture."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

577 people liked it

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: feathers, hope, inspirational, souls
723 people liked it

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading
1,320 people liked it

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: life, love
289 people liked it

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, inspirational
506 people liked it

"No lace - no lace, Mrs. Bennet, I beg of you! - Mr. Bennet"
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: austen, humor, jane
11 people liked it

"I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!"
— Emily Dickinson

57 people liked it

"Well-read people are less likely to be criminals."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: humor, reading
343 people liked it

"There is no Frigate like a book
To take us Lands away,
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry..."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: books, reading
59 people liked it

"She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation."
— Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)

tags: sensibility, women
38 people liked it

"A word is dead when it's been said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: words
47 people liked it

"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: age, books, reading
790 people liked it

"Christmas always used to get me down. There was something oppressive about all those twinkling colored lights.
"Are you happy?" "Do you fit in anywhere?" ....is what it felt like they were asking me."
— Chica Umino

tags: honey-and-clover
2 people liked it

"Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks"
— Meg Cabot (Haunted)

118 people liked it

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: children-s, entertainment, stories
898 people liked it

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally"
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: american, freedom, presidents, wisdom
89 people liked it

"Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane"
— Emily Dickinson

60 people liked it

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. "
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship, inspirational
627 people liked it

"I am excessively diverted. "
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: bennet, elizabeth
57 people liked it

""We all have our best guides within us, if only we would listen."
— Fanny Price in Mansfield Park
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— Jane Austen

27 people liked it

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, world
1,006 people liked it

"God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, happiness, religion
471 people liked it

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: books, old-books, reading
340 people liked it

"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: books
351 people liked it

"Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it."
— Flannery O'Connor (Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose)

tags: art, craft, fiction, reading, writing
90 people liked it

"Forever is composed of nows."
— Emily Dickinson

64 people liked it

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: education
274 people liked it

"an individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change."
— Jack Johnson

2 people liked it

"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: age
65 people liked it

"If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in!"
— Shel Silverstein

tags: poetry
376 people liked it

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: age, dreams, goals
425 people liked it

"Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me...I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street."
— Gabrielle Zevin (Elsewhere)

17 people liked it

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