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“They say that time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

“A little literary culture won't hurt you, you fucking cannibal.”
― Stephen King, Duma Key

“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

“I realised then that life could get up and bite you – and now Covid has got up and bitten us all. I know that kindness and gentleness are the most valuable commodities. Now, more than ever, they demand distribution.”
― Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.”
― Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. A single word, spoken in enmity, can scar a heart for a lifetime. —Richard Syon, Aldermaston of Muirwood Abbey”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Ciphers of Muirwood

“If people could handle their self-loathing, customer service would be smoother.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“at some point in a woman’s life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does. It can hurt to walk down a hallway or open the fridge. It hurts to put on a pair of socks, to brush your teeth. Food tastes like nothing. Colors go flat. Music hurts, and so do memories. You look at something you’d otherwise find beautiful—a purple sky at sunset or a playground full of kids—and it only somehow deepens the loss. Grief is so lonely this way.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Because time is cruel to all, and crueler still to artists. Because visions weakens, and voices wither, and talent fades.... Because happiness is brief, and history is lasting, and in the end... everyone wants to be remembered”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“It just gets hard, always being someone's second choice”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“There are always those worse off than you. Your problems are not invalid as a result, or needing to be measured against an internationally recognised pain scale before we decide if your condition is severe enough to treat.’)”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don’t You Forget About Me

“The mess we are living in is a deliberate one. If it was created by people, it can be dismantled by people, and it can be rebuilt in a way that serves all, rather than a selfish, hoarding few.”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

“Life’s a funny thing, isn’t it? You spend it waiting for that one blinding moment of clarity … that one magic thread that sews it all together. And then one day, you wake up an older thing than you ever thought you’d be, and you realize you’ve wasted your days looking for something that was never really there at all. There are no solutions in this life, Eamon. There are only moments in the sun … and moments in the shade … and the trick of it all is to understand where you’re standing before it’s too late to call it home. I wish you peace in the fields beyond, because you will not find it here.”
― Jonathan Edward Durham, Winterset Hollow

“They say a fool and his gold are soon parted, but they ought to say too that those who refuse ever to be parted from gold are the greatest fools of all.”
― Stephen Fry, Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined

“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“All three had been taught French at school. How deeply they now wished that they had learned it!”
― E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

“I believe that people can change. If they have the willingness, if they see a need within themselves, they can reach down within and change. I hate when people use the phrase “you are who you are” as an excuse to let themselves be less than the person they could be.”
― Laura Clery, Idiot: Life Stories from the Creator of Help Helen Smash

“It's only a lost cause when everyone gives up on it.”
― Thomas Wheeler, Cursed

“We talk about life like it's some magical elixer yet life is your own slow crawl along the dead man's mile. Doesn't matter how many diversions you take, eventually we're all heading one way. The only difference is how long the journey takes."
-The Other People”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“It all made Pino realize that the earth did not know war, that nature would go on no matter what horror one man might inflict on another. Nature didn’t care a bit about men and their need to kill and conquer.”
― Mark T. Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky

“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“It can’t be true,” she said. “The worst can always be true,” Papa said grimly.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“There are so many young women who need to hear this story. I don't want them to learn from my mistakes; I want them to stop hating themselves for mistakes of their own. I want them to laugh and see that they do have a voice and their own brand of intelligence and, girl, fuck fitting in.”
― Paris Hilton, Paris: A Memoir for Young Women in the Age of Influencers

“Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers

“I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess