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  • #1
    Cornelia Funke
    “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

  • #2
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
    Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

  • #3
    J.K. Rowling
    “You could say sorry," suggested Harry bluntly.
    "What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?" muttered Ron.
    "What did you have to imitate her for?"
    "She laughed at my mustache!"
    "So did I, it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  • #4
    J.K. Rowling
    “Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #5
    Hafez
    “And still, after all this time,
    The sun never says to the earth,
    "You owe Me."

    Look what happens with
    A love like that,
    It lights the Whole Sky.”
    Hafiz

  • #6
    A.A. Milne
    “What day is it?” asked Pooh.
    “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
    “My favorite day,” said Pooh.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #7
    J.K. Rowling
    “So light a fire!" Harry choked. "Yes...of course...but there's no wood!" ...
    "HAVE YOU GONE MAD!" Ron bellowed. "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #9
    Wendy Mass
    “Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?"
    All the time.”
    Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

  • #10
    Steve  Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    Steve Martin

  • #11
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #12
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #13
    John Lennon
    “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
    John Lennon

  • #14
    Paul Simon
    “I've got nothing to do today but smile.”
    Simon and Garfunkel

  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
    Mark Twain

  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #17
    J.M. Barrie
    “I'm not young enough to know everything.”
    J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

  • #18
    Jane Wagner
    “Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.”
    Jane Wagner

  • #19
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #21
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #22
    Charles M. Schulz
    “Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.”
    Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown's Little Book of Wisdom

  • #23
    Joe Abercrombie
    “A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.”
    Joe Abercrombie

  • #24
    Joe Abercrombie
    “Nothing to it. You treat folk the way you’d want to be treated, and you can’t go far wrong.”
    Joe Abercrombie, The First Law Trilogy Boxed Set: The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, Last Argument of Kings

  • #25
    Diana Gabaldon
    “Dangerous thing, infatuation.”
    Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

  • #26
    Sylvia Plath
    “Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath



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