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“There is no place like home.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that what children do in real life is snarl and take drugs.”
― Douglas Adams

“He fixed his eye on me longer than I cared to return the stare, for fear I might be tempted either to box his ears, or render my hilarity audible.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“The past is never where you think you left it.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

“Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“I slammed out of the [house] and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just need to go through a door.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“Both Kreizler and I had seen all this before, but familiarity did not breed acceptance.”
― Caleb Carr, The Alienist

“We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“As long as there are things and idiots, idiots will break things.”
― Mykle Hansen, Rampaging Fuckers of Everything on the Crazy Shitting Planet of the Vomit Atmosphere: Three Novels

“I've seen pictures of their dicks so I know I can trust them.”
― Mykle Hansen, Rampaging Fuckers of Everything on the Crazy Shitting Planet of the Vomit Atmosphere: Three Novels

“Kids today, they can't even read unless it's spelled wrong on a phone.”
― Mykle Hansen, Rampaging Fuckers of Everything on the Crazy Shitting Planet of the Vomit Atmosphere: Three Novels

“No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other’s tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. We know the shape, and the shape does not change.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“We are writing the future in Letters of Fire.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Now, that is very interesting history," said Jack, well pleased; "and I understand it perfectly all but the explanation.”
― L. Frank Baum

“Do not, I beg of you, dampen today's sun with the showers of tomorrow." - Emperor Nick Chopper (The Tin Woodsman) -The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 86 chapter 11”
― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

“True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“What happened now?" he would ask -- another man thoroughly exhausted by me.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“It would be so much easier to be aggressive if she were wearing her bra.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret

“All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret

“It wasn't logical, but the better you knew someone, the more blurry they became. The accumulation of facts made them disappear.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret

“[Admiral] Halsey was jubilant. Of the Princess-Saratoga strike, he wrote: 'I sincerely expected both air groups to be cut to pieces, and both carriers stricken if not lost. (I tried hard not to remember that my son Bill was aboard one of them.)”
― Robert Leckie

“If a rattlesnake thinks he can swallow a mouse, he probably can. Don’t assume you think like a snake unless you are one.”
― Alan Alda