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“My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“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

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

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

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“I could always give you a teaser. You bookish people love teasers, don't you?”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Onyx

“I always liked you. From the moment you first flipped me off.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Onyx

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

“Ignite, my love. Ignite.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I barely knew I had skin before I met you.”
― Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests