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“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.”
― Megan Abbott, Dare Me

“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”
― Colette

“I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.”
― William Trevor

“Every beginning has an end and every end has a new beginning, don't worry, broken soul, life will one day come to an end. ”
― Santosh Kalwar

“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”
― Red in Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King , Different Seasons

“My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”
― Laura Amy Schlitz

“Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.”
― Jane Green, The Beach House

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride