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"The world is quiet here."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: library, peace, quiet
104 people liked it

"Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing."
— Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume)

tags: heat, louisiana, south
16 people liked it

"Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price."
— Jonathan Stroud (The Bartimaeus Trilogy Boxed Set)

tags: bartimaeus
15 people liked it

"Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere"
— Abrahams, Peter

tags: family, love
1 person liked it

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

tags: friendship
2,383 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,757 people liked it

"I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. "
— Mae West

tags: diamonds, diets, humor
90 people liked it

"Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often."
— Mae West

tags: surprise
156 people liked it

"If I could dream at all it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

tags: dream, love
2,181 people liked it

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: books, reading
2,105 people liked it

"...life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis"
— e.e. cummings

tags: poetry
59 people liked it

"i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)"
— e.e. cummings

28 people liked it

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

tags: humor, scifi
3,281 people liked it

"I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer"
— Douglas Adams

tags: humor, wit
1,439 people liked it

"Don't Panic"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: gets, me, some, things, through, weird
496 people liked it

"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."
— Tom Robbins

tags: love, sex
528 people liked it

"Here’s the thing… I’ve already gone crazy once. I know what my limits are."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

tags: crazy, humor
1,240 people liked it

"Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this."
— Maureen Johnson

tags: essay, humor
61 people liked it

"The whole "weak in the knees" thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real.
-Suite Scarlett"
— Maureen Johnson

tags: humor
16 people liked it

"Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer."
— Jasper Fforde (Lost in a Good Book)

20 people liked it

"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books."
— Jasper Fforde (The Eyre Affair)

tags: books, reading
199 people liked it

"If real life were a book, it would never find a publisher."
— Jasper Fforde

tags: humor
68 people liked it

"Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit."
— Jonathan Stroud (The Golem's Eye)

tags: bartimaeus
18 people liked it

"Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style."

"That is a footstool."
— Jonathan Stroud (The Golem's Eye)

tags: humor
19 people liked it

"According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. (Generally those who don't have to do it. Politicians and writers spring to mind.) I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking.
"
— Jonathan Stroud (Ptolemy's Gate)

8 people liked it

"Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke"
— Rachel Cohn (Gingerbread)

9 people liked it

"What an author doesn't know could fill a book."
— Holly Black (Lucinda's Secret)

tags: author, books, knowledge
42 people liked it

"They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins."
— Holly Black (Ironside)

11 people liked it

"Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villians."
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

tags: power
70 people liked it

"And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time."
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

tags: change
245 people liked it

"We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic."
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

68 people liked it

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
something else is more important than fear."
— Meg Cabot

tags: courage, fear, inspirational
154 people liked it

"Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it sounds really great, and I'd like to visit there one day."
— Meg Cabot (Queen of Babble in the Big City)

55 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

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

tags: books
351 people liked it

"Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with."
— Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic)

tags: life
60 people liked it

"Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective."
— Alice Hoffman (Local Girls)

tags: luck
16 people liked it

"The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep."
— Alice Hoffman

23 people liked it

"" . . . Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.""
— Alice Hoffman

8 people liked it

"Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws."
— Alice Hoffman

tags: fairy, stories, tales
14 people liked it

"That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination."
— Alice Hoffman

11 people liked it

"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections)

tags: inspiration
494 people liked it

"Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent."
— Neil Gaiman

134 people liked it

"Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?"
— Neil Gaiman

tags: librarians
150 people liked it

"Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want,' he said, and then he paused and he thought. 'I want everything.'"
— Neil Gaiman (The Graveyard Book)

4 people liked it

"A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: library
88 people liked it

"A good library will never be too neat or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: libraries, reading
448 people liked it

"And he smiled at her, truely smiled- wicked and lovely..."
— Melissa Marr (Wicked Lovely)

55 people liked it

"Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter."
— Melissa Marr (Ink Exchange)

tags: love
169 people liked it

"Does the walker choose the path or the path choose the walker?"
— Garth Nix (Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr)

71 people liked it

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