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  • #1
    Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
    “A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
    Dinah Maria Craik

  • #2
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #3
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
    Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

  • #4
    Judith Viorst
    “Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
    Judith Viorst, Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.

  • #5
    Alexander Pope
    “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
    Alexander Pope

  • #6
    Sara Blaedel
    “It brings me peace to know that it all began with crime fiction as a child, and that it is there, after a thousand detours, that I have landed again. As a child I found peace in crime novels, and it is with them that I find peace today. There has been some turbulence along the way, but I wouldn’t have avoided any of it. I wouldn’t have reached the place I have without all of it happening.”
    Sara Blaedel

  • #7
    Raymond Chandler
    “To say goodbye is to die a little.”
    Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

  • #8
    Jack London
    “The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
    Jack London, White Fang

  • #9
    Beatrix Potter
    “There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
    Beatrix Potter

  • #10
    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
    “I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.”
    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  • #11
    Rosamunde Pilcher
    “She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
    Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers

  • #12
    “Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
    Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

  • #13
    Agatha Christie
    “I learned (what I suppose I really knew already) that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back—that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street, isn’t it?”
    Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

  • #14
    Zadie Smith
    “Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
    Zadie Smith, White Teeth

  • #15
    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
    Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • #16
    Gertrude Stein
    “There ain't no answer.
    There ain't gonna be any answer.
    There never has been an answer.
    There's your answer.”
    Gertrude Stein

  • #17
    “The whole point of collecting is the thrill of acquisition, which must be maximized, and maintained at all costs.”
    John Baxter, A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict

  • #18
    Agatha Christie
    “What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.”
    Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library

  • #19
    Agatha Christie
    “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
    Agatha Christie

  • #20
    Agatha Christie
    “It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.”
    Agatha Christie, The Clocks

  • #21
    Shirley Jackson
    “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”
    Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

  • #22
    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    Garrison Keillor

  • #23
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
    Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

  • #24
    Leonie Swann
    “The sea looked as if it had been licked clean, blue and clear and smooth, and there were a few woolly little clouds in the sky. Legend said that these clouds were sheep who had simply wandered over the cliff tops one day, special sheep who now went on grazing in the sky and were never shorn. In any case, they were a good sign.”
    Leonie Swann, Three Bags Full

  • #25
    Leonie Swann
    “Maple thought optimistically that human beings, on their good days, weren't much dimmer than sheep. Or at least, not much dimmer than dim sheep.”
    Leonie Swann, Three Bags Full

  • #26
    Leonie Swann
    “You shouldn't believe what you don't understand. You should understand what you believe.”
    Leonie Swann, Three Bags Full

  • #27
    John  Langan
    “Heaven doesn’t want me, and hell’s afraid I’ll take over.”
    John Langan, The Fisherman

  • #28
    Agatha Christie
    “Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid spinsterish face, and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it as all in the day’s work. Her name’s Miss Marple.”
    Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library



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