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  • #471
    Yevgeny Zamyatin
    “A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.”
    Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

  • #472
    Kate Atkinson
    “What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?”
    Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

  • #473
    Kate Atkinson
    “I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.”
    Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

  • #474
    Kate Atkinson
    “Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.”
    Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

  • #475
    J.K. Rowling
    “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #476
    Earl Lovelace
    “I was thinking that if what distinguishes us as humans is our stupidity, what may redeem us is our grace.”
    Earl Lovelace

  • #477
    Sarah Vowell
    “Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
    Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

  • #478
    Abraham Sutzkever
    “If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”
    Abraham Sutzkever

  • #479
    Francesco Petrarca
    “Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
    Francesco Petrarca

  • #480
    Francesco Petrarca
    “I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.”
    Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere: Selected Poems

  • #481
    Umberto Eco
    “We live for books.”
    Umberto Eco

  • #482
    Colleen Hoover
    “Laugh a lot. Never go a day without laughing at least once.”
    Colleen Hoover, Slammed

  • #483
    Jessamyn West
    “Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.”
    Jessamyn West

  • #484
    Jeyn Roberts
    “There are three sides to every story.
    Yours
    Mine.
    What really happened: the truth.”
    Jeyn Roberts, Rage Within

  • #485
    Primo Levi
    “Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.”
    Primo Levi, The Periodic Table

  • #486
    J.K. Rowling
    “Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #487
    J.K. Rowling
    “No story lives unless someone wants to listen. The stories we love best do live in us forever. So whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #488
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #489
    Robert James Waller
    “Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again.”
    Robert James Waller

  • #490
    Marjane Satrapi
    “I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.”
    Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

  • #491
    Rose Tremain
    “In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.”
    Rose Tremain

  • #492
    “The Bookshop has a thousand books,
    All colors, hues, and tinges,
    And every cover is a door
    That turns on magic hinges.”
    Nancy Byrd Turner

  • #493
    Jerry Seinfeld
    “A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.”
    Jerry Seinfeld

  • #494
    Jen Campbell
    “Perhaps that is the best way to say it: printed books are magical, and real bookshops keep that magic alive.”
    Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book

  • #495
    Jen Campbell
    “These places are time machines, spaceships, story-makers, secret-keepers. They are dragon-tamers, dream-catchers, fact-finders, and safe places. They are full of infinite possibilities and tales worth taking home.”
    Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book

  • #496
    Jen Campbell
    “You see, bookshops are dreams built of wood and paper. They are time travel and escape and knowledge and power. They are, simply put, the best of places.”
    Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book

  • #497
    Lewis Buzbee
    “I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.”
    Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

  • #498
    “No matter how many books you own, you can never own enough. Reading books is the best addiction anyone can have.”
    Love The Stacks Bookstore

  • #499
    Elizabeth Tallent
    “People open bookstores because they want their souls back.
    (from "Two Women" published in Do Me: Tales of Sex & Love from Tin House)”
    Elizabeth Tallent

  • #500
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis



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