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  • #1
    J.K. Rowling
    “Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #2
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #3
    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    Voltaire

  • #4
    Saul Bellow
    “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
    Saul Bellow

  • #5
    Mario Vargas Llosa
    “One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”
    Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

  • #6
    William Trevor
    “I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.”
    William Trevor

  • #7
    Patricia Polacco
    “Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure…”
    Patricia Polacco

  • #8
    Neil Gaiman
    “He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”
    Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

  • #9
    Neil Gaiman
    “Richard wrote a diary entry in his head.

    Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiancée, a home, and a life that made sense. (Well, as much as any life makes sense). Then I found an injured girl bleeding on the pavement, and I tried to be a Good Samaritan. Now I've got no fiancée, no home, no job, and I'm walking around a couple of hundred feet under the streets of London with the projected life expectancy of a suicidal fruitfly.
    Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

  • #10
    Neil Gaiman
    “He..." Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me."

    Door stopped. The steps dead-ended in a rough brick wall. "Mm," she agreed. "He's a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur.”
    Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
    tags: humor

  • #11
    Neil Gaiman
    “What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?”
    Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

  • #12
    Neil Gaiman
    “Can I help you?" said the footman. Richard had been told to fuck off and die with more warmth and good humor.”
    Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

  • #13
    Neil Gaiman
    “Rubbish!" screamed a fat, elderly woman, in Richard's ear, as he passed her malodorous stall. "Junk!" She continued. "Garbage! Trash! Offal! Debris! Come and get it! Nothing whole or undamaged! Crap, tripe, and useless piles of shit. You know you want it.”
    Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

  • #14
    Anthony Horowitz
    “You're never too young to die.”
    Anthony Horowitz, Stormbreaker

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #16
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #17
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #18
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #19
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #20
    Atsushi Ohkubo
    “Soul: As a cool guy, I'm used to seeing naked women.

    Blair: That explains the nosebleed”
    Atsushi Ohkubo, Soul Eater, Vol. 1

  • #21
    Atsushi Ohkubo
    “The root of all fear is imagination.”
    Atshushi Okubo



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