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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
― Edith Sitwell

“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.”
― John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice

“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
― John Banville, The Sea

“it speaks of such integrity to refuse to pretend that you’re doing well just to help other people deal with the fact that sometimes we face an impossible loss.”
― Anne Lamott, Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace

“What seems true is that something in life, on the highways or in our hearts, is always being installed, or being repaired, or being torn down for the next installation.”
― Anne Lamott, Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace

“The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love.”
― Harriet Prescott Spofford, The Amber Gods and Other Stories

“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
― Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
― Cherie Priest, Dreadnought

“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
― Tim O'Brien

“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
― Nora Roberts, Vision in White

“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention...”
― Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

“Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me.”
― Elif Shafak

“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Was it true the lovely part of love only lasted a moment and the sorrow went on for a lifetime?”
― Daphne du Maurier, Julius