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    Jodi Picoult
    “Personally, I like books that make you think – books you’re still wondering about three days after you finish them; books you hand to a friend and say “Read this, so we can talk about it”. I suppose I’m just writing the kind of novel I like to read”
    ― Jodi Picoult
    tags: about-reading, inspirational
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: live-death-love
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    Arthur Golden
    “This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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    Stephen King
    “Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: craft, instruction-book, memoir, on-writing
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    Stephen King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: books, library, reading
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    P.L. Travers
    “Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?”
    ― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins
    tags: fairy, fairyland
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    John Steinbeck
    “I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    Philip Reeve
    “You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But we're alive and together and we're going to be all right.”
    ― Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines
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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    Veronica Roth
    “Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: dauntless, divergent, fearless, four, tris
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    Veronica Roth
    “Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: divergent, fear
    5686 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!"
    "What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: fred-weasley, george-weasley, ron-weasley
    8796 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: anger, behaviour, declaration, empowerment, gentlemanlike, gentlemen, humiliation, love, marriage-proposal, men, mr-darcy, pride, proposal, propriety, refusal, rejection, scorn, self-determination, women
    298 likes

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    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”
    ― Markus Zusak
    tags: book
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    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: inspirational
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    William Goldman
    “When I was your age, television was called books.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: book, fantasy, humour
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  • #23
    “You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”
    ― Paul Sweeney
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    Suzanne Collins
    “We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self destruction.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: humanity-and-society
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    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife
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  • #26
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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  • #27
    “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
    ― Steven Kloves
    tags: movie-quote
    682 likes

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    Rick Riordan
    “Oh no." I said panic rising in my chest. "No, no, no, Somebody get a can opener. I've got a god in my head!!”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid
    tags: gods, possession
    679 likes

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    Rick Riordan
    “Die, enemies of Ra!" Sekhemet yelled. "Perish in agony!"
    "She's almost as annoying as you," I told Horus.
    "Impossible," Horus said. "No one bests Horus.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid
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    Rick Riordan
    “It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid
    tags: courage, honesty, self-disclosure, truth-telling
    1056 likes

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    Rick Riordan
    “Well," I said. "If you need me, I'll be outside, playing with sharp objects.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid
    562 likes



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