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  • #1
    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    Frederick Douglass

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    Bob Newhart
    “I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
    Bob Newhart

  • #4
    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

  • #5
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.”
    Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

  • #6
    Marilynne Robinson
    “There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.”
    Marilynne Robinson, Home

  • #7
    Isaac Asimov
    “In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #8
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
    Simone de Beauvoir , La vieillesse

  • #9
    Molière
    “It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.”
    Molière

  • #10
    N. Scott Momaday
    “A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.”
    N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain

  • #11
    Charles Dickens
    “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
    Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

  • #12
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #13
    Nelson DeMille
    “The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
    Nelson De Mille

  • #14
    Ransom Riggs
    “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #15
    Astrid Lindgren
    “A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
    Astrid Lindgren

  • #16
    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    Voltaire

  • #17
    G.K. Chesterton
    “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #18
    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    Charlaine Harris

  • #19
    Saul Bellow
    “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
    Saul Bellow

  • #20
    Stefan Zweig
    “Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.”
    Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories

  • #21
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #22
    Adeline Yen Mah
    “Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
    Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

  • #23
    T.E. Lawrence
    “I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars”
    T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

  • #24
    James Joyce
    “Shut your eyes and see.”
    James Joyce

  • #25
    Willa Cather
    “The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
    Willa Cather

  • #26
    Colleen Hoover
    “Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
    Colleen Hoover, Slammed

  • #27
    B.K.S. Iyengar
    “The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.”
    B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

  • #28
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
    Arthur C. Clarke

  • #29
    Anzia Yezierska
    “When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.”
    Anzia Yezierska

  • #30
    Nalo Hopkinson
    “The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.”
    Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring



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