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“I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books.”
― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ”
― Ellen Goodman

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

“Nature provides exceptions to every rule.”
― Margaret Fuller

“There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.”
― Margaret Fuller

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“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

“At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.”
― Michael Scott, The Alchemyst

“Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.”
― Michael Scott, The Alchemyst

“The best lie is wrapped around a core of truth.”
― Michael Scott, The Magician

“And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty.”
― Michael Scott, The Magician

“I spend all my time trying to keep thoughts away and ignore them....But here you are, trying to remember your own life, writing your thoughts down so that you don't forget. I suddenly realized what it would be like not to know, not to remember.”
― Michael Scott, The Sorceress

“we are nothing more than the sum of our memories and experiences”
― Michael Scott, The Sorceress

“We humans are nothing more than the sum of our memories.”
― Michael Scott, The Sorceress

“Battles are won by men. Wars are won by strategists.”
― Michael Scott, The Sorceress

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
― Stanley Fish

“You are not living, you are surviving.”
― Michael Scott, The Necromancer

“Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― Michael Scott, The Necromancer

“Often the greatest act of courage is admitting that one has made a mistake. [...] Follow your hearts. Protect one another, trust one another, because, at the end of the day, all of these people want something from you, or want you to do something for them, or be something that you are not. Your own responsibility is to one another.”
― Michael Scott, The Necromancer

“There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.”
― Michael Scott, The Necromancer

“Even that. What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love?”
― Michael Scott, The Necromancer

“I am not afraid to die because I know that when we go, we will go together. It is living without you that would be unbearable.”
― Michael Scott, The Necromancer

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“At one time in my life, a shapeshifted, demonically possessed maniac crashing through a window and trying to rip my face off would have come as an enormous and nasty surprise.

But that time was pretty much in the past.”
― Jim Butcher, Small Favor

“In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.”
― Elizabeth Goudge

“Как ще спреш ти мене - волната, скитницата, непокорната -
родната сестра на вятъра, на водата и на виното,
за която е примамица непостижното, просторното,
дето все сънува пътища - недостигнати, неминати, -
мене как ще спреш?”
― Елисавета Багряна

“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu