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  • #1
    Jean Giraudoux
    “I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.”
    Jean Giraudoux, Amphitryon 38

  • #2
    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    St. Augustine

  • #3
    Michael Cunningham
    “The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.”
    Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

  • #4
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

  • #5
    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Friends don't count the cost of favors.”
    Laurell K. Hamilton, Danse Macabre

  • #6
    J.R. Ward
    “I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened.”
    J.R. Ward, Lover Awakened

  • #7
    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.”
    Sherrilyn Kenyon

  • #8
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

  • #9
    Carl Sagan
    “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos

  • #10
    George S. Patton Jr.
    “If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
    George S. Patton

  • #11
    Margaret Atwood
    “Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
    Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

  • #12
    Nora Roberts
    “Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....”
    Nora Roberts, The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex

  • #13
    Nora Roberts
    “You can fix anything but a blank page.”
    Nora Roberts

  • #14
    Nora Roberts
    “Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.”
    Nora Roberts

  • #15
    Nora Roberts
    “I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.”
    Nora Roberts

  • #16
    Nora Roberts
    “When we grow up, we lose the talent for loving without restrictions.”
    Nora Roberts

  • #17
    Nora Roberts
    “I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.”
    Nora Roberts, Face the Fire

  • #18
    Nora Roberts
    “Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.”
    Nora Roberts, Tears of the Moon

  • #19
    Nora Roberts
    “Good fiction creates its own reality.”
    Nora Roberts, The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex

  • #20
    Nora Roberts
    “It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.”
    Nora Roberts, Happy Ever After

  • #21
    Don DeLillo
    “How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.”
    Don DeLillo, The Names

  • #22
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #23
    Susan Sontag
    “My library is an archive of longings.”
    Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

  • #24
    Wilkie Collins
    “The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
    Wilkie Collins, Armadale

  • #25
    Anne Rice
    “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
    Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

  • #26
    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    Charlaine Harris

  • #27
    Darynda Jones
    “Since I had a soft spot for zombies and my curiosity was killing me, I opted for plan Z.”
    Darynda Jones, Fifth Grave Past the Light

  • #28
    Darynda Jones
    “What do I look like, the ghost whisperer? They're loony. I'd have better luck talking to my cousin Alfonso's Chihuahua. At least Tía Juana knows Spanish."
    "Your cousin's Chihuahua is named Tía Juana?”
    Darynda Jones, Fifth Grave Past the Light

  • #29
    Darynda Jones
    “He's helped me a lot over the years."
    "I'm sure he has. You scratch his back. He scratches yours."
    "I have skin allergies. I'm itchy.”
    Darynda Jones, Fifth Grave Past the Light

  • #30
    Angela Carter
    “Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
    Angela Carter



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