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  • #1
    Paulo Coelho
    “Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #2
    Maya Angelou
    “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #3
    Katja Millay
    “Life is short and TBR lists are long.”
    Katja Millay

  • #4
    Haruki Murakami
    “Why a unicorn? Maybe the unicorn, too, is one of the Men Without Women. I mean, I've never seen a unicorn couple. He -- it has to be a he, right? -- is always alone, sharp horn thrust toward the sky. Maybe we should adopt him as the symbol of Men Without Women, of the loneliness we carry as our burden. Perhaps we should sew unicorn badges on our breast pockets and hats, and quietly parade down streets all over the world. No music, no flags, no ticker tape. Probably.”
    Haruki Murakami

  • #5
    Niels Bohr
    “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
    Niels Bohr

  • #6
    Ramsey Campbell
    “Tradition is a pretty poor excuse for perpetrating stereotypes.”
    Ramsey Campbell

  • #7
    Sarah Govett
    “Immortality isn't a blessing" she'd said. "It's a curse. It is the fleeting nature of life that makes it special. It's like the seasons. If there were only Summer, it would lose its glow and you would pine for the cold.”
    Sarah Govett, We Go On Forever

  • #8
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #9
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #10
    Ocean Vuong
    “To look at something is to fill your whole life with it, if only briefly.”
    Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

  • #11
    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    Henry Ward Beecherr

  • #12
    Groucho Marx
    “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: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #13
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
    Rumi

  • #14
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “I can live for two months on a good compliment.”
    Mark Twain

  • #16
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
    Logan Pearsall Smith

  • #17
    Margaret  Rogerson
    “She now understood that the world wasn’t kind to young women, especially when they behaved in ways men didn’t like, and spoke truths that men weren’t ready to hear.”
    Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

  • #18
    Richard Rohr
    “Surrender will always feel like dying, and yet it is the necessary path to liberation.”
    Richard Rohr, Breathing Underwater

  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #20
    Brian Michael Bendis
    “Oh yeah 'Nostalgia is a state of inarticulate contempt to the present and a fear of the future.”
    Brian Michael Bendis, Daredevil, Vol. 6: Lowlife

  • #21
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #22
    Neil Gaiman
    “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #23
    Talia Hibbert
    “Chloe knew she was flesh and blood and bone, just like him. But she wasn’t alive like he was. Not even close.”
    Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown



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