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    Jonathan Stroud
    “A typical master. Right to the end, he didn’t give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a pity, because at that last moment I’d have liked to tell him what I thought of him. Mind you, since in that split second we were, to all intents and purposes, one and the same, I rather think he knew anyway.”
    ― Jonathan Stroud, Ptolemy's Gate
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore
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    Jonathan Stroud
    “According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. 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
    tags: amulet-of-samarkand, bartimaeus-trilogy, jonathan-stroud
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  • #4
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: beauty, life
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    Markus Zusak
    “A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: friendship, snow
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    “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.”
    ― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book
    tags: friendship, misattributed-a-a-milne
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    Michael Morpurgo
    “I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.”
    ― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse
    tags: hate, love, war-horse
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    Cressida Cowell
    “I didn't mean to come here...
    And I didn't mean to stay...
    It's just where the sea wind blew me
    One accidental day...”
    ― Cressida Cowell - How to twist a dragons tale
    tags: how-to-twist-a-dragons-tale
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    Cressida Cowell
    “I have never cared for Castles
    or a Crown that grips too tight,
    Let the night sky be my starry roof
    and the moon my only light,
    My Heart was born a Hero,
    my storm-bound sword won't rest,
    I left the Harbour long ago
    on a Never-ending Quest,
    I am off to the horizon,
    where the wild wind blows the foam,
    Come get lost with me, love,
    and the sea shall be our home!”
    ― Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury
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    Emily Brontë
    “I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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    Michael Morpurgo
    “stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions”
    ― Michael Morpurgo, I Believe in Unicorns
    tags: michaelmorpurgo
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    Cressida Cowell
    “I have never cared for castles or a crown that grips too tight,
    Let the night sky be my starry roof and the moon my only light,
    My heart was born a Hero,
    My storm-bound sword won't rest,
    I left this harbour long ago on a never-ending quest.
    I am off to the horizon,
    Where the wild wind blows the foam,
    Come get lost with me, love,
    And the sea shall be our home.”
    ― Cressida Cowell, How to Break a Dragon's Heart
    tags: how-to-train-your-dragon, poems
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Hugo?’ ‘Millicent?’ ‘Is that you?’ ‘Yes. Is that you?’ ‘Yes.’ Anything in the nature of misunderstanding was cleared away. It was both of them.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Summer Lightning
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    Victor Hugo
    “And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: les-miserables, love, sad, sweet
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    Michael Morpurgo
    “It's what I'll be singing in the morning. It won't be God Save the Ruddy King or All Things bleeding Bright and Beautiful. It'll be Orange and Lemons for Big Joe, for all of us.”
    ― Michael Morpurgo
    tags: sad-but-beautiful-war-book
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    Ruth Park
    “You're a hidjus old pollywobble!”
    ― Ruth Park, The Muddle-Headed Wombat
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    Eoin Colfer
    “Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
    tags: confidence, humor, ignorance, knowledge
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    Jonathan Stroud
    “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
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    Jonathan Stroud
    “We communicated with pithy, rather monosyllabic thoughts: viz. Run, Jump, Where? Left, Up, Duck, ect. (This latter was an observation I made on the edge of a lake. Nathaniel unfortunately took it as a command, which resulted in our temporary immersion.) We didn't ever quite say Ug, but it was a close-run thing.”
    ― Jonathan Stroud, Ptolemy's Gate
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    Rick Riordan
    “No!" Leo yelled.
    "Uhhh," Nico groaned from the floor.
    "Piper!" Jason cried.
    "Monkey!" Frank yelled.
    "Not monkeys," Hazel grumbled. "I think those are dwarfs."
    "Stealing my stuff!" Leo yelled, and ran for the stairs.”
    ― Rick Riordan
    tags: dwarfs, frank-zhang, hazel-levesque, jason-grace, leo-valdez, monkeys, piper-mcclean, rick-riordan, riordan, the-argo-ii, the-house-of-hades
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    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing
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    Eva Ibbotson
    “They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?'
    'It was books, admitted Miss Minton.
    And Maia said, 'Good.”
    ― Eva Ibbotson, Journey to the River Sea
    tags: book-lovers, books, humor
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  • #25
    Anne Frank
    “Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: candle, darkness, illumination, misattributed
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
    Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
    All mimsy were the borogoves,
    And the mome raths outgrabe.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky and Other Poems
    tags: alice, carroll, jabberwock, jabberwocky, lewis, wonderland
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    Cressida Cowell
    “I forget myself sometimes, but then I look up, as I am looking up now, and I see in my mind's eye a sheild, strangely changed by a rich encrusting of jewel-like barnacles and cold-water coral, with an eight foot tooth sticking right out of the middle of it. I reach out and the edge of that tooth is still so bitingly sharp after all these years that just a gentle brush with the fingers might send a rain of blood down on these pages. And I bend my head, not too close, and I am sure I can hear, very faintly:

    Once I set the sea alight
    With a single fiery breath....
    Once I was so mighty that I thought
    My name was Death....
    Sing out loud until you're eaten,
    Song of melancholy blisss,
    For the mighty and the middling
    All shall come to THIS....

    The Supper is still singing.”
    ― Cressida Cowell
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Good God, Clarence! You look like a bereaved tapeworm.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Heavy Weather
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