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  • #1
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
    Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

  • #2
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

  • #3
    Sigmund Freud
    “We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.”
    Sigmund Freud

  • #4
    Stephen  King
    “Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”
    Stephen King, The Green Mile

  • #5
    Stephen  King
    “Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.”
    Stephen King, The Green Mile

  • #6
    Stephen  King
    “He killed them with their love”
    Stephen King, The Green Mile

  • #7
    Stephen  King
    “We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.”
    stephen king, The Green Mile

  • #8
    Will Shortz
    “As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”
    Will Shortz

  • #9
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #10
    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #11
    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #13
    Boris Pasternak
    “I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
    Boris Pasternak

  • #14
    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

  • #15
    Katherine Mansfield
    “The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
    Katherine Mansfield

  • #16
    “The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.”
    Anne Perry, The Whitechapel Conspiracy

  • #17
    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    Carl Sagan

  • #18
    Ishmael Beah
    “Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ”
    Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

  • #19
    Haruki Murakami
    “Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
    Haruki Marukami

  • #20
    August Wilson
    “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
    August Wilson

  • #21
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #22
    Benjamin Spock
    “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
    Benjamin Spock

  • #23
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #24
    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    Philip Pullman

  • #25
    Shel Silverstein
    “There are no happy endings.
    Endings are the saddest part,
    So just give me a happy middle
    And a very happy start.”
    Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

  • #26
    Douglas Adams
    “Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”
    Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

  • #27
    Douglas Adams
    “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
    Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless



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