"Thus Gonzo, incendiarist and leader of men."
— Nick Harkaway (The Gone-Away World)

"So you do believe in... true love? she whispered.
I took a deep breath, I think I have to, I said, blinking back tears. Without it, we're all going nowhere."
— Juliet Marillier (Wildwood Dancing)

"And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!"
— Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are)

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
— Kurt Vonnegut

"Advice to Young Poets

Never pretend
to be a unicorn
by sticking a plunger on your head."
— Martin Espada

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

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

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

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

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

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
— Charles M. Schulz

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."
— Terry Pratchett (Jingo)

"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)

"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."
— Mark Twain

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

"To love would be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
— Henry Ward Beecher

"It had become a chimney poking from a vertical universe of bookshelves.

There was motion below her. There were people on the shelves.

They clung to the edges of the cases and moved across them in expert scuttles. They wore ropes and hooks and carried picks on which they sometimes hung. Dangling from straps they carried notebooks, pens, magnifying glasses, ink pads, and stamps.

The men and women took books from the shelves as they went, checked their details, leaning against their ropes, replaced them, pulled out little pads and made notes, sometimes carried the books with them to another place and reshelved it there.

...

"I'm Margarita Staples." She bowed in her harness. 'Extreme librarian. Bookaneer.' "
— China Miéville

"Goodbye, said the fox. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"'What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...'"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"'I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?'

'It is an act too often neglected,' said the fox. 'It means to establish ties.'

'To establish ties?'

'Just that,' said the fox. 'To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world...'"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Le Petit Prince)

""My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens: men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow. And then look: you see the grain fields down yonder? [...] The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back to the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wheat in the wind..." "
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near--

"Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry."

"It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ."

"Yes, that is so," said the fox.

"But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince.

"Yes, that is so," said the fox.

"Then it has done you no good at all!"

"It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields." "
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers..."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (El Principito / The Little Prince)

"I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"adieu, dit le renard, voici mon secret. il est tres simple. on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water..."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contradictory! But I was too young to know how to love her."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express.

"Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince.

"They are pursuing nothing at all," said the switchman. "They are asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only the children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes."

"Only the children know what they are looking for," said the little prince. "They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry..."

"They are lucky," the switchman said. "
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)