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“...on those days when he could not spend half an hour in the company of a good book, he felt deprived.”
― Diane Setterfield, Bellman & Black

“Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.”
― Dean Koontz, Innocence

“There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

“The dying are selfish, he thought; they want their moments to themselves, like children.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“He was forty-two years old, and he could see nothing before him that he wished to enjoy and little behind him that he cared to remember.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“But those who were young had no thought left for spring and those who still thought were not young any longer.”
― Ayn Rand, We the Living

“Your daddy and me named you Otha. It means 'wealth'. You were your daddy's treasure from the time you were born until he died. He used to say there were rubies buried deep inside of you. Remember, baby, don't never let a man mine you for your riches. Don't let him take a pickax to that treasure in your soul. Remember, they can't get it until you give it to them.”
― Cynthia Bond, Ruby

“If you brave enough to live it, the least I can do is listen.”
― Cynthia Bond, Ruby

“Ain’t nobody ever gone answer you cries. You can fill a well with tears, and all you gonna get is drowned. You sit there long enough and the crazy man find you. You weep too long, your heart ache so, the flesh slip off your bones and your soul got to find a new home. You wait on answers ’til the scaredy-cat curl up in your belly and use your liver for a pin cushion. And that’s just how you die.O”
― Cynthia Bond, Ruby

“Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“On the cool stone floor of their prison, Samheed and Lani huddled together to try to sleep.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Fire

“Just like the pieces of Mama's cranes, each of us was a piece in her life, and her death. But maybe that's how it was with everything. If you were going to let yourself be connected to people, you had to be willing to take chances" -Grace”
― Tracy Holczer, The Secret Hum of a Daisy

“You can do this. You are brave and wise. You are loved.”
― Tracy Holczer, The Secret Hum of a Daisy

“You can do it. You are brave and you are loved.”
― Tracy Holczer, The Secret Hum of a Daisy

“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Reader, I married him.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“the pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them”
― Philip Pullman, La Belle Sauvage

“the pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them to people.”
― Philip Pullman, La Belle Sauvage

“Words belong in contexts, not pegged out like biological specimens.”
― Philip Pullman, La Belle Sauvage

“All that remained was to get to camp, learn English better, find a job and a place to live. Then, most importantly, buy a bookshelf. And a piano.”
― Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay

“The whole point of travel is to learn there's no such thing as normal.”
― Emma Donoghue, Akin

“A life lived in a simulation is still a life.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“No star burns forever.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“If there’s pleasure in action, there’s peace in stillness.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“When have we ever believed that the world wasn’t ending?”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“Well," he said, "I saw some things I wish I hadn't."

Understatement of the goddamned twentieth century.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility