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#1

“The world is quiet here.”
― Lemony Snicket

#2

“Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

tags: heat, louisiana, south

102 likes

#3

“Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Bartimaeus Trilogy Boxed Set

tags: bartimaeus

167 likes

#4

“Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere”
― Peter Abrahams, Down the Rabbit Hole

tags: family, love, mothers

39 likes

#5

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book

tags: friendship, misattributed-a-a-milne

22195 likes

#6

“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.”
― Mae West

861 likes

#7

“Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.”
― Mae West

tags: complacency, morality, surprise

906 likes

#8

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

tags: books, reading

27739 likes

#9

“life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: poetry

795 likes

#10

“i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)”
― E.E. Cummings, Selected Poems

tags: love, poetry

681 likes

#11

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

23425 likes

#12

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

tags: attributed-no-source, humor, misattributed-douglas-adams, wit

11373 likes

#13

“Don't Panic.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: h2g2, hitchhiker-s-guide, humor, panic

4697 likes

#14

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
― Tom Robbins

4108 likes

#15

“Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this.”
― Maureen Johnson, World of the Golden Compass: The Otherworldly Ride Continues [Paperback]

tags: essay, humor, monkeys

247 likes

#16

“The whole "weak in the knees" thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real.
-Suite Scarlett”
― Maureen Johnson, Suite Scarlett

tags: humor

45 likes

#17

“Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.”
― Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book

141 likes

#18

“Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

1189 likes

#19

“Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Golem's Eye

tags: bartimaeus

174 likes

#20

“Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style."

"That is a footstool.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Golem's Eye

tags: humor

216 likes

#21

“According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking.”
― Jonathan Stroud, Ptolemy's Gate

tags: amulet-of-samarkand, bartimaeus-trilogy, jonathan-stroud

469 likes

#22

“Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke”
― Rachel Cohn, Gingerbread

48 likes

#23

“What an author doesn't know could fill a book.”
― Holly Black, Lucinda's Secret

tags: author, books, knowledge

179 likes

#24

“They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

112 likes

#25

“Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

tags: power

379 likes

#26

“And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

tags: change

1993 likes

#27

“We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

279 likes

#28

“Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it sounds really great, and I'd like to visit there one day.”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City

252 likes

#29

“Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks”
― Meg Cabot, Haunted

993 likes

#30

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

tags: books

6773 likes

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