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#1

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

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#2

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

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#3

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

tags: criticism, history

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#4

“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

tags: philosophy

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#5

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

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#6

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

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#7

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

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#8

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

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#9

“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

tags: harry-potter, humor

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#10

“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

tags: dudley-dursley, harry-potter, humor, toilet

338 likes

#11

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

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#12

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

tags: books, reading

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#13

“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

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#14

“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

tags: writing

2966 likes

#15

“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

tags: cats, death, life

3630 likes

#16

“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

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#17

“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

tags: books, reading

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#18

“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

5801 likes

#19

“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

tags: fairy-tales, snow-white

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#20

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

tags: courage, inspirational, misattributed-grace-hopper, misattributed-william-g-t-shedd, risk

3836 likes

#21

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield

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#22

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

tags: memories, past

2425 likes

#23

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

2377 likes

#24

“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

tags: children, fairies, fantasy, loss-of-innocence, poetry, sorrow

1426 likes

#25

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

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#26

“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

tags: clean, wishes

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#27

“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

1538 likes

#28

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

tags: humor-reading

8494 likes

#29

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

tags: books, reading

27744 likes

#30

“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

tags: humor

2538 likes

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