Mark > Mark's Quotes

“Hast seen the white whale?”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“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

“I would prefer not to.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
― Neil Gaiman

“I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

“The soul is healed by being with children.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“True friends are always together in spirit.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables