"Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none"
— Lois Lowry (Gathering Blue)

"Sometimes love isn't fireworks, sometimes love just comes softly."
— Janette Oke (Love Comes Softly)

""Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living...""
— Taylor Caldwell

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

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
— Jane Austen

"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. "
— Jane Austen

"Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion."
— Jane Austen (Mansfield Park)

""It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.""
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"Do you dance Mr. Darcy?
Not if I can help it."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"Wise? No, I simply learned to think.
- Eragon"
— Christopher Paolini (Eldest)

"Eragon looked back at him, confused. 'I don't understand.'

'Of course you don't,' said Brom impatiently. 'That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around....'"
— Christopher Paolini (Eragon)

"Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now."
— Christopher Paolini (Eldest)

"Without fear there cannot be courage.
- Saphira"
— Christopher Paolini (Eragon)