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“Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant--
No! No! I mean an elephone,
Who tired to use the telephone.”
― Laura Elizabeth Richards

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“It's been my experience that only children never learn when to keep their fucking traps shut. An older brother would have beat that out of you.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground

“A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have to hold it in your hands, because a book sits there, waiting for you, whether you think you want it or not, because of all these things, a book is a friend. It’s not just the content, but the physical being of a book that is there for you always and unconditionally.”
― Mo Willems

“The world is full of assholes. What are you doing to make sure you're not one of them?”
― A.S. King, Everybody Sees the Ants

“Go out there and swear to this world your oath, not with your words, but with what you do. Not with your hand over your heart, but with your hand outstretched to a world that desperately needs your hand, your help, your insights, your creativity, your honor, your courage. It needs you.”
― Cory Booker

“I felt as though melted chocolate had oozed its way from my heart to my toes, coating me with comfort on its way down.”
― Jennifer Cervantes, Tortilla Sun

“When I was a kid I used to drink from the tap all the time. I'd run back into the flat all hot and sweaty from playing and didn't even bother putting it in a glass, just turned the tap on and stuck my mouth underneath it. If my mom caught me doing it she used to scold me, but my dad just said that I had to be careful. 'What if a fish jumped out?' he used to say. 'You'd swallow it before you knew it was there.' Dad was always saying stuff like that and it wasn't until I was seventeen that I realised it was because he was stoned all the time.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Midnight Riot

“Love was what mattered. Love of one for one. The touching of hands, the touching of hearts. The warmth of belonging, the joy of sharing. There would always be tyrants. Man seemed incapable of existing without them. For without tyrants there would be no heroes. And man could not live without heroes. Renya”
― David Gemmell, The King Beyond the Gate

“Her given name was Lucinda but she’d called herself Juveline since age fifteen, when she’d been caught selling knockoff Burberry totes and a cop at the booking desk misspelled the word “juvenile.” Big”
― Carl Hiaasen, Razor Girl

“Dogs are minor angels, and I don't mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally, forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy, etcetera. If we attributed some of those qualities to a person we would say they are special. If they had ALL of them, we would call them angelic. But because it's "only" a dog, we dismiss them as sweet or funny but little more. However when you think about it, what are the things that we most like in another human being? Many times those qualities are seen in our dogs every single day-- we're just so used to them that we pay no attention.”
― Jonathan Carroll

“There are three kinds of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder, "what happened?”
― de Lint Charles Vess Charles

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

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

“You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings”
― Percival Everett, The Trees