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    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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  • #2
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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  • #3
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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  • #4
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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  • #5
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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  • #6
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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  • #7
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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  • #8
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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  • #9
    Coco Chanel
    “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: beauty, class, fashion, girls, women
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  • #10
    Rick Riordan
    “Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse
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    Rick Riordan
    “Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot."
    "He's the sun god," I said.
    "That's not what I meant.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse
    tags: apollo, gods, hot, olympians, percy-jackson, sun, thalia
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  • #12
    Rick Riordan
    “How did you die?"
    "We er....drowned in a bathtub."
    "All three of you?"
    "It was a big bathtub.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
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    Rick Riordan
    “I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.”
    ― Rick Riordan
    tags: percy-jackson, rachel-elizabeth-dare
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    Rick Riordan
    “Braccas meas vescimini!"
    I wasn't sure where the Latin came from. I think it meant 'Eat my pants!”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
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  • #15
    Abigail Gibbs
    “Can you enter a house uninvited?"
    "No."
    "Why?"
    "That would be rude.”
    ― Abigail Gibbs, Dinner with a Vampire
    tags: fabian, humor, sarcasm, vampire-mythology, violet
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  • #16
    Abigail Gibbs
    “Kidnapped by a vampire, death by a squid. How tragic.”
    ― Abigail Gibbs, Dinner with a Vampire
    tags: giant-squid, sarcastic-humor, violet-lee
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  • #17
    Abigail Gibbs
    “Kaspary: a level of awesomeness so high it kicks everyone else's arse, leaving them breathless and bewildered.”
    ― Abigail Gibbs, Dinner with a Vampire
    tags: kaspar-varn, sarcastic, violet-lee
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  • #18
    Lewis Carroll
    “But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
    "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
    "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
    "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
    “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
    “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?”
    “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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  • #20
    Lewis Carroll
    “I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: mad-hatter, remaining-silent, reticence, silence
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  • #21
    Lewis Carroll
    “If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”
    ― Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, carroll
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  • #22
    Lewis Carroll
    “Why it's simply impassible!
    Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
    Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: alice, alice-in-wonderland, door, funny, humor, wordplay
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
    'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
    'I don't much care where -' said Alice.
    'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
    '- so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.
    'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: choices, life-decisions
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  • #24
    Lewis Carroll
    “In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die:
    Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
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  • #25
    Lewis Carroll
    “Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: funny, wonderland
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  • #26
    Lewis Carroll
    “My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: queen-of-hearts
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
    The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.
    Alice: I don't much care where.
    The Cheshire Cat: Then it doesn't much matter which way you go.
    Alice: ...So long as I get somewhere.
    The Cheshire Cat: Oh, you're sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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  • #28
    Lewis Carroll
    “The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?"
    Alice: "Yes..."
    The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: aliceinwonderland
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  • #29
    Victoria Aveyard
    “In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again.”
    ― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
    tags: smile
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  • #30
    Victoria Aveyard
    “The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.”
    ― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
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