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“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”
― Julio Cortázar

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.”
― Alexander Pushkin

“Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“Puns are the highest form of literature.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera

“There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there...”
― Stephen King

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling

“Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on—I like naked ladies naked.”
― Christina Stead, Miss Herbert (the suburban wife)