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  • #1
    Edward Eager
    “The best kind of book," said Barnaby, "is a magic book."

    "Naturally," said John.”
    Edward Eager, Seven-Day Magic

  • #2
    William Shakespeare
    “We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
    William Shakespeare

  • #3
    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    William Shakespear, Hamlet

  • #4
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #5
    Elizabeth Peters
    “The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.”
    Elizabeth Peters, The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog
    tags: cats

  • #6
    John Vaillant
    “The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window. But unlike the piano, the tiger is designed to do this, and the impact is only the beginning.”
    John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

  • #7
    John Vaillant
    “The one certainty in tiger tracks is: follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger, unless the tiger arrives at you first.”
    John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

  • #8
    John Vaillant
    “To say a tiger is an "outside" animal is an understatement that is best appreciated when a tiger is inside.”
    John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

  • #9
    Bill Watterson
    “There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #10
    Bill Watterson
    “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #11
    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    Linda Grayson

  • #12
    Charles Dickens
    “A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
    Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

  • #13
    Charles Dickens
    “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
    Charles Dickens

  • #14
    Charles Dickens
    “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
    Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

  • #15
    Dorothy Dunnett
    “I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.”
    Dorothy Dunnett, The Disorderly Knights

  • #16
    Dorothy Dunnett
    “Philippa, enviously, wished she could do the same, and then decided she would rather be interesting and sensitive.”
    Dorothy Dunnett, Pawn in Frankincense

  • #17
    Dorothy Dunnett
    “Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.”
    Dorothy Dunnett, The Disorderly Knights

  • #18
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #19
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #20
    George R.R. Martin
    “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
    'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #21
    George R.R. Martin
    “Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #22
    George R.R. Martin
    “It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”
    George R.R. Martin

  • #23
    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #24
    John Vaillant
    “(..)Fate has al­ways been a po­tent force in Rus­sia, where, for gen­er­ations, cit­izens have had lit­tle con­trol over their own des­tinies. Fate can be a bitch, but, as Za­it­sev, Dvornik, and Onofre­cuk had dis­cov­ered, it can al­so be a tiger.”
    John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
    tags: fate

  • #25
    It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
    “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #26
    Georgette Heyer
    “You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!”
    Georgette Heyer, Powder and Patch

  • #27
    Herman Melville
    “For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;--nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.”
    Herman Melville, Pierre Or The Ambiguities

  • #28
    William Blake
    “The eye altering, alters all.”
    William Blake

  • #29
    Albert Einstein
    “Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?”
    Albert Einstein

  • #30
    George R.R. Martin
    “Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings



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