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“A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

“They say best men are molded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad”
― William Shakespeare

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.”
― Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason, The Rule of Four

“All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.”
― E.B. White

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination.”
― Desi Puspitasari

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

“You cannot put it all in God's hands. God is busy.”
― John Wilson

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. ”
― Ellen DeGeneres

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Everyone is someone's devil.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

“What twisted people we are. How simple we seem, or at least pretend to be in front of others, and how twisted we are deep down. How paltry we are and how spectacularly we contort ourselves before our own eyes, and the eyes of others...And all for what? To hide what? To make people believe what?”
― Roberto Bolaño

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“Manusia hidup menunggu untuk mati. Kehidupan justru terasakan dalam menunggu. Makin bisa menikmati cara menunggu, makin tenang dalam hati.”
― Arswendo Atmowiloto, Canting

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Kalau yang memuji itu teman baik, itu biasa. Kalau yang mencela itu musuh, juga biasa. Tapi kalau yang memuji itu musuh, dan yang mencela itu kawan, itu menyebabkan saya berpikir-pikir.”
― A.A. Navis

“Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.”
― Keri Smith, How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

“Kemampuan membaca itu sebuah rahmat. Kegemaran membaca; sebuah kebahagiaan.”
― Goenawan Mohamad

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“Books, the children of the brain.”
― Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub and Other Writings

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin