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“Tony, Tony,come around, something's lost that can't be found.”
― Stephen King

“Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.”
― Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch

“Those who deserve to die, die the death they deserve.”
― Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die

“Time is a river...and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands. Only a few, a very few, endure the testings of time and live to bless the ages following.”
― R.W. and Rev. Joseph Fort Newton, The Lost Symbol

“Evil comes in shades of gray, not black and white.”
― Dacre Stoker, Dracula the Un-Dead

“For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke.”
― Lemony Snicket

“You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.”
― L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire

“There is no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
― J.K. rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.”
― Stephen King

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate

“A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
Is the next way to draw new mischief on.”
― William Shakespeare

“You worry about a crack in the floor while the whole mountain is about to come down on us!”
― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

“The overdressed traveller betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveller knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“There is no such thing as a really calm sea. Always, always, there is motion.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“There is nothing more deceitful...than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes and indirect boast.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool.”
― John Green

“I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.”
― Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story

“So I switch to my MacBook and make my rounds: news sites, blogs, tweets. I scroll back to find the conversations that happened without me during the day. When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it’s actually you that’s time-shifted?”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
― H.L. Mencken