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  • #1
    Tom Holt
    “Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.”
    Tom Holt, Falling Sideways
    tags: humor

  • #2
    Tom Holt
    “Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it, the Great Leg Pull. Apollo has the best claim, but a sizeable minority support Pluto, ex-God of the Dead, on the grounds that he has a really sick sense of humour.

    How would it be, suggested the unidentified god, if first we tell them all to love their neighbour, pack in the killing and thieving, and be nice to each other. Then we let them start burning heretics.”
    Tom Holt, Ye Gods!

  • #3
    Sylvia Plath
    “Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #4
    David  Mitchell
    “A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #5
    David  Mitchell
    “My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #6
    David  Mitchell
    “I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #7
    David  Mitchell
    Fantasy. Lunacy.
    All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #8
    David  Mitchell
    “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #9
    David  Mitchell
    “...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #10
    David  Mitchell
    “Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #11
    David  Mitchell
    “Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #12
    David  Mitchell
    “In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #13
    David  Mitchell
    “It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #14
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #15
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #16
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #17
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #18
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #19
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #20
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

  • #21
    Terry Pratchett
    “No, no, no!” said Albert. “You got to put a bit of life in it, sir, no offense intended. It’s got to be a big fat laugh. You got to…you got to sound like you’re pissing brandy and crapping plum pudding, sir, excuse my Klatchian.”
    Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

  • #22
    Scott Lynch
    “There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #23
    Mark  Lawrence
    “A book is as dangerous as any journey you might take. The person who closes the back cover may not be the same one that opened the front one. Treat them with respect.”
    Mark Lawrence, Red Sister



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