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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    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

  • #4
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #5
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #6
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #7
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    Allen Saunders

  • #8
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #9
    Jodi Picoult
    “You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #10
    Sophie Kinsella
    “sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!”
    Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

  • #11
    Jodi Picoult
    “Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #12
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
    Margaret Mitchell

  • #13
    L.M. Montgomery
    “It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
    Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #14
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #15
    Nicholas Sparks
    “I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”
    Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

  • #16
    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #17
    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

  • #18
    Henry Adams
    “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
    Henry Adams

  • #19
    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #20
    Edith Sitwell
    “Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
    Edith Sitwell

  • #21
    Stieg Larsson
    “What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”
    Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

  • #22
    Stieg Larsson
    “Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as a recluse. She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace. Unfortunately society was not very smart or understanding.”
    Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

  • #23
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Enchanted Glass

  • #24
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here on Earth. As you can see, it's constantly growing and moving as people invent new tales to tell or find new things to believe. The older strands move out to become these spirals, where things tend to become quite crude and dangerous. They've hardened off, you see.”
    Diana Wynne Jones

  • #25
    Dan    Brown
    “To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.”
    Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

  • #26
    Dan    Brown
    “Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.”
    Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

  • #27
    Dan    Brown
    “Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true...written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us...vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called...re-membered...-re-cognized...as that which is already inside us.”
    Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

  • #28
    “I'm sorry, but nothing 'just happens'. Stuff happens because either we make it happen or we let it.”
    Jessie Jones, Rubbish boyfriends

  • #29
    Eva Ibbotson
    “Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.”
    Eva Ibbotson, A Countess Below Stairs

  • #30
    Eva Ibbotson
    “When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.”
    Eva Ibbotson, A Countess Below Stairs

  • #31
    Jostein Gaarder
    “... perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead...”
    Jostein Gaarder, The Christmas Mystery



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