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“Love is the most important. The most necessary human emotion. Not just romantic love. Love. The ability of human beings to connect”.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Those were all big Words, to be sure, but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when Words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying." - Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of her own making.”
― Cathrynne M. Valente

“Reading. Well Reading is...It´s really much more than that. A page of print is like a secret passage that leads you to Worlds so fare away, you cannot imagine them until the magic of reading carries you there”
― Peggy Christian, The Bookstore Mouse

“I en rodet lejlighed i Oslo forstod jeg, at man på en gang forsvinder, men samtidig bliver til, når man læser. Jeg forstod, at hvis bare man er omgivet af bøger, så er man aldrig alene.”
― Signe Langtved Pallisgaard, Et andet sted

“Den værste kulde er den kulde, der engang var varm. Den værste hårdhed er den hårdhed, der engang var blød og den værste tavshed er den tavshed, der engang var kærlig tale".”
― Signe Langtved Pallisgaard, Et andet sted

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“The point of life isn't to avoid pain. The point of life is to be alive! To feel things. That means the good and the bad. There'll be pain. But also joy, and friendship and love. And it's worth it, believe me.”
― John Stephens, The Fire Chronicle

“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
― Emilie Buchwald

“Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.”
― Brad Paisley

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“Each New Year, we have before us a brand new book containing 365 blank pages. Let us fill them with all the forgotten things from last year—the words we forgot to say, the love we forgot to show, and the charity we forgot to offer.”
― Peggy Toney Horton

“Books Fall Open

Books fall open,
you fall in,
delighted where,
you've never been.
Hear voices
not once heard before,
Reach world through world,
through door on door.
Find unexpected
keys to things,
locked up beyond
imaginings….
True books will venture,
Dare you out,
Whisper secrets,
Maybe shout,
across the gloom,
to you in need
Who hanker for
a book to read.”
― David McCord

“Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”
― Roy L. Smith

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“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

“Being an author sucks, doesn't it? It's like telling a joke and nobody laughs for two years.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“Real life doesn’t have many happy endings. Why shouldn’t books make up the difference?”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“Sometimes we expect more that people are capable of giving at the moment”
― Kasie West, On the Fence

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a woman is continually thwarted. Inert and pliant at the same time, she must struggle against both the softness of her flesh and subjection to the law. Her will, like the veil tied to her hat by a string, flutters with every breeze; there is always some desire luring her on, some convention holding her back.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary