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  • #1
    George Orwell
    “Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. ”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #2
    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “Anyone who takes the time to be kind is beautiful."

    from: "The Beauty of Ugh"
    Richelle E. Goodrich, I am not Frazzle!: And other stories for grown-ups

  • #3
    Ed Begley Jr.
    “I don’t understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.”
    Ed Begley Jr.

  • #4
    George R.R. Martin
    “Woman?” She chuckled. “Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man.” Dany met his stare. “I am Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, the Unburnt, Mother of Dragons, khaleesi to Drogo’s riders, and queen of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

  • #5
    George R.R. Martin
    “Drifting snowflakes brushed her face as light as lover’s kisses, and melted on her cheeks. At the center of the garden, beside the statue of the weeping woman that lay broken and half-buried on the ground, she turned her face up to the sky and closed her eyes. She could feel the snow on her lashes, taste it on her lips. It was the taste of Winterfell. The taste of innocence. The taste of dreams.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

  • #6
    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #7
    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    George Orwell, Animal Farm

  • #8
    George Orwell
    “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #9
    George Orwell
    “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
    George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

  • #10
    Plato
    “If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
    Plato, The Republic

  • #11
    Plato
    “Those who don't know must learn from those who do.”
    Plato, The Republic

  • #12
    Plato
    “Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.”
    Plato, The Republic

  • #13
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.”
    Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

  • #14
    Thomas Hobbes
    Scientia potentia est.

    Knowledge is power.”
    Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

  • #15
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The things you used to own, now they own you.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #16
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #17
    Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy
    “Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #18
    Cornelia Funke
    “Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

  • #19
    Cornelia Funke
    “Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. Love, truth, beauty, wisdom and consolation against death. Who had said that? Someone else who loved books.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

  • #20
    Cornelia Funke
    “You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

  • #21
    Cornelia Funke
    “Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

  • #22
    Cornelia Funke
    “Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

  • #23
    Cornelia Funke
    “Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

  • #24
    Cornelia Funke
    “There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

  • #25
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #26
    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #27
    George R.R. Martin
    “Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #28
    George R.R. Martin
    “Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #29
    George R.R. Martin
    “If I look back I am lost.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #30
    George R.R. Martin
    “Every flight begins with a fall.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones



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