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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
― Douglas Adams

“You fucked my wife,’ said David, the words coming from his mouth before he realised how pathetic they sounded.
‘I’ve fucked a lot of men’s wives, David.’ Pause. ‘But none was in more need than yours.”
― Natasha Walker, The Secret Lives of Emma : Unmasked

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“You asked me why I saved you. You have forgotten a villain who tried to carry you off one night,- a villain to whom the very next day you brought relief upon their infamous pillory. A drop of water and a little pity are more than my whole life can ever repay. You have forgotten that villain; but he remembers."

~Quasimodo to Esmeralda~”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can't.”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile

“On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile

“He killed them with their love”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile

“Then I dropped my forehead against his and sat there for a long time, as if I could telegraph a message through our two skulls, from my brain to his. I wanted to make him understand some things.

You know all that stuff we’ve always said about you?” I whispered. “What a total pain you are? Don’t believe it. Don’t believe it for a minute, Marley.” He needed to know that, and something more, too. There was something I had never told him, that no one ever had. I wanted him to hear it before he went.

Marley,” I said. “You are a great dog.”
― John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog

“The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.
We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“You never answered my question, about what you want to do with your life.

Maybe my dreams aren't that complicated. Maybe I think that a job is just a job.

What does that mean?

Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.”
― Nicholas Sparks (Safe Haven), Safe Haven

“Thrown under the bus by my own kids. I just can't believe it.”
“I wouldn't throw you under the bus, Daddy,” Kristen said seriously.
“Thank you, sweetie.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

“Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,
And be it moon, or sun, or what you please.
And if you please to call it a rush candle,
Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Some things are best left unsaid, sweetling."

"Even when we are alone?"

"*Especially* when we are alone.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“You are Alayne, and you must be Alayne all the time." He put two fingers on her left breast. "Even here. In your heart. Can you do that? Can you be my daughter in your heart?"

"I . . ." I do not know, my lord, she almost said, but that was not what he wanted to hear. Lies and Arbor gold, she thought. "I am Alayne, Father. Who else would I be?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.'
'And yet it is still extremely funny.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.”
― Zooey Deschanel

“A tiger doesn;t lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.”
― Shahir Zag

“Haters are like crickets. Crickets make a lot of noise, you hear it but you can’t see them, then right when you walk by them, they’re quiet.”
― Israel Houghton

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides