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“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi.”
― Sarah Addison Allen

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been - sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf.”
― Elizabeth Knox, Dreamhunter

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters