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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“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

“... 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

“Never give up on your friends. Never give up your faith in them. It's when everything is worse than you could ever imagine it could be, that you'll need your friends the most.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Dragon's Den

“Being an indie author is just like being a fish in the ocean and waiting for a reader to sail with their boat and catch your book with a fishing rod.”
― Stjepan Varesevac Cobets

“Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“My bookstore obsession grew to the point where I'd search for new shops during family trips, as though that were the reason for our travel.”
― Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“there are people in the world who think only about themselves. They don’t care what happens to other people so long as they get what they want. They put other people down to make themselves feel important. “Then there are people who do the opposite, who are able to imagine how others must feel, and make sure that they don’t do things that hurt people. “So,” she said, looking me squarely in the eye. “Which kind of person do you want to be?”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“A book doesn't come alive until it is being read.”
― Kevin Ansbro

“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
― David Baldacci, The Camel Club

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

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

“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Never underestimate the big importance of small things”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“We both have some shattered edges,” he whispered. “But maybe God isn’t afraid of our brokenness. I hope he’s not, anyway.”
― Liz Johnson, The Last Way Home

“The people we lose take a part of us with them… but they leave a part of themselves with us too.”
― Mariana Zapata, All Rhodes Lead Here