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

“Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.
Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git.
Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.
Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“What really matters is what you believe.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you”
― E.E. Cummings

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
― Amelia Earhart

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“I think I deserve something beautiful.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules.”
― Mario Batali

“I love a book that makes me cry.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
― Stephen Greenblatt

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

“I am a tiny seashell
that has secretly drifted ashore
and carries the sound of the ocean
surging through its body.”
― Edward Hirsch

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
― Adolf Hitler