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  • #1
    Katharine Graham
    “The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
    Katharine Graham

  • #2
    Sherwood Anderson
    “Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
    Sherwood Anderson

  • #3
    William H. Armstrong
    “One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together.”
    William H. Armstrong

  • #4
    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

  • #5
    Cressida Cowell
    “There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination”
    Cressida Cowell, How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse

  • #6
    Cressida Cowell
    “Thank you for nothing, you stupid reptile.”
    Cressida Cowell, How to Train Your Dragon

  • #7
    Cressida Cowell
    “Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death”
    Cressida Cowell, How to Train Your Dragon

  • #8
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #9
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #10
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #11
    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

  • #12
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #13
    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #14
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #15
    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #16
    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

  • #17
    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #18
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

  • #19
    Christopher Paolini
    “Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
    Christopher Paolini, Eragon

  • #20
    A.A. Milne
    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #21
    Temple Grandin
    “I am different, not less.”
    Temple Grandin

  • #22
    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    John Milton, Paradise Lost

  • #23
    Gloria Whelan
    “They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.”
    Gloria Whelan, Listening for Lions

  • #24
    Philippe Ariès
    “A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
    Philippe Ariès

  • #25
    Nalo Hopkinson
    “The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.”
    Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring

  • #26
    Victor Hugo
    “On coming out of the chapel, a well can be seen on the left. There are two in this yard. You ask, Why is there no bucket and no pulley to this one? Because no water is drawn from it now. Why is no more water drawn from it? Because it is full of skeletons.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #27
    Victor Hugo
    “If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #28
    Michel Onfray
    “You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
    Michel Onfray

  • #29
    Annie Dillard
    “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
    Annie Dillard, The Living

  • #30
    “I thought and pondered -- vainly. I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations,”
    Mary Shelly, Frankenstein



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