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  • #1
    Anna Akhmatova
    “You will hear thunder and remember me,
    and think: she wanted storms...”
    Anna Akhmatova

  • #2
    James Herriot
    “Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
    James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

  • #3
    James Fenimore Cooper
    “History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
    James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

  • #4
    O.R. Melling
    “When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.”
    O.R. Melling, The Summer King

  • #5
    Margaret Mead
    “I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
    Margaret Mead

  • #6
    Selma Lagerlöf
    “Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
    Selma Lagerlöf

  • #7
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    “My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
    Ashleigh Brilliant

  • #8
    J.K. Rowling
    “Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #9
    J.K. Rowling
    “They heard the click of the mail slot and flop of letters on the doormat.
    "Get the mail, Dudley," said Uncle Vernon from behind his paper.
    "Make Harry get it."
    "Get the mail, Harry."
    "Make Dudley get it."
    "Poke him with your Smelting stick, Dudley.”
    J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #10
    J.K. Rowling
    “No, thanks," said Harry. "The toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it— it might be sick." Then he ran, before Dudley could work out what he'd said.”
    J.K. Rowling , Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #11
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #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
    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

  • #14
    Ray Bradbury
    “You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #15
    Terry Pratchett
    “I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
    Death thought about it.
    CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
    Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

  • #16
    Mary Robinette Kowal
    “One must not put trust in novelists, Beth; they create worlds to fit their own needs and drive their characters mad in doing it.”
    Mary Robinette Kowal, Shades of Milk and Honey

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

  • #19
    Seanan McGuire
    “Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.”
    Seanan McGuire, Indexing

  • #20
    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    John A. Shedd

  • #21
    Katherine Mansfield
    “The mind I love must have wild places.”
    Katherine Mansfield

  • #22
    John Banville
    “The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
    John Banville, The Sea

  • #23
    W.B. Yeats
    “I have spread my dreams under your feet.
    Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
    W.B. Yeats

  • #24
    W.B. Yeats
    “Come away, O human child!
    To the waters and the wild
    With a faery, hand in hand,
    For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
    William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

  • #25
    William Joyce
    “Old friends sometimes need no words to understand each other.”
    William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

  • #26
    William Joyce
    “I wish to be washed clean of my old life. To let go of my tide of sorrows and find my way to a new shore.”
    William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

  • #27
    Eva Ibbotson
    “It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them. ”
    Eva Ibbotson, The Secret of Platform 13

  • #28
    Lemony Snicket
    “Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #29
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #30
    Lemony Snicket
    “If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.”
    Lemony Snicket



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