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#1

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

#2

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: love

47056 likes

#3

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

2678 likes

#4

“What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.”
― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dumbledore

2835 likes

#5

“Fred, you next," the plump woman said.
"I'm not Fred, I'm George," said the boy. "Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother? Can't you tell I'm George?"
"Sorry, George, dear."
"Only joking, I am Fred," said the boy and off he went.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: family, humor, twins

646 likes

#6

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dreams, life

48260 likes

#7

“You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!"
"What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: fred-weasley, george-weasley, ron-weasley

8776 likes

#8

“You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style...”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: dumbledore, fudge, minister, style

5219 likes

#9

“Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?"
"Yes."
"You called her a liar?"
"Yes."
"You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?"
"Yes."
"Have a biscuit, Potter.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

10510 likes

#10

“Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Bernard Cornwall

tags: on-writing, readers-and-writers, writing, writing-craft

126 likes

#11

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

3053 likes

#12

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

tags: athe-plague-of-dives

2642 likes

#13

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

tags: knowledge

3585 likes

#14

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

6458 likes

#15

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

tags: love, sadness

4109 likes

#16

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
― James Baldwin

tags: parenting, role-models

3058 likes

#17

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: inspirational-attitude, joy, poetry

2112 likes

#18

“Isn’t it nice … once you’ve outgrown the ideas of what life should be and you just enjoy what it is.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do

261 likes

#19

“There is no sinner like a young saint.”
― Aphra Behn

1014 likes

#20

“Going outside is highly overrated.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

tags: aa-17-32, anorak-s-almanac

821 likes

#21

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor

1473 likes

#22

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

18880 likes

#23

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

93522 likes

#24

“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”
― Derek Walcott

tags: poetry

1656 likes

#25

“Let our scars fall in love.”
― Galway Kinnell

tags: poetry

3254 likes

#26

“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”
― Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

tags: inspirational

1868 likes

#27

“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. ”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

1407 likes

#28

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

2457 likes

#29

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

2035 likes

#30

“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
― Mary Austin

1608 likes

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