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“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Sometimes it's what you want to do, not what you have to do.”
― Keira Cass

“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

“In this moment he was just a boy -brilliant, blessed with too much power, burdened by eternity.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

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

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

“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

“Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.”
― Daniel Radcliffe

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“He gave Cress a quick farewell embrace,then pulled Iko into a hug. Iko squeaked, frozen.When Kai pulled away,Iko looked from him,to Cinder, then back.Her eyes suddenly rolled up into her head and she collapsed onto the floor.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“Yes, Kinney?” said Cinder. “The captain and his crew are requesting an audience.” “Ha!” Thorne’s voice carried from the corridor. “I told you I could get him to call me the captain.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“Scarlet's shoulders slumped. "I need him as much as he needs me. But that doesn't make it love."
Winter lowered her lashes. "Actually, dear friend, I suspect that is PRECISELY what makes it love.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“Thorne glanced back at the pantry. “Did you see any rice in there? Maybe we could fill Cinder’s head with it.” Everyone stared at him. “You know, to … absorb the moisture, or something. Isn’t that a thing?” “We’re not pouring rice in my head.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“I'm tired of fixing things that always break.”
― Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
― Sir Walter Scott

“I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.”
― Agostinho da Silva

“It's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Passenger

“I don't know. I don't actually remember anything from before the surgery."

His eyebrows rose, his blue eyes sucking in all the light of the room. "The cybernetic opetation?"

"No, the sex change."

The doctor's smile faltered.

"I'm joking.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“So many men had tried to make her a queen. Now she understood that she was meant for something more. The Darkling had told her he was destined to rule. He had claimed his throne, and a part of her too. He was welcome to it. For the living and the dead, she would make herself a reckoning. She would rise.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”
― Kathy Acker

“There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
― Hervé Le Tellier

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Here lies Dobby, a free elf.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Don't let the muggles get you down.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.”
― Tahereh Mafi