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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #2
    Charlotte Brontë
    “It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.”
    Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

  • #3
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.”
    Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford

  • #4
    Albert Schweitzer
    “Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
    Albert Schweitzer

  • #5
    Elinor Glyn
    “Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”
    Elinor Glyn

  • #6
    Michael Crichton
    “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
    Michael Crichton

  • #7
    William Shakespeare
    “Double, double, toil and trouble;
    Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!”
    William Shakespeare, Macbeth

  • #8
    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    Albert Camus

  • #9
    Alfred Tennyson
    “Hope
    Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
    Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
    Alfred Lord Tennyson

  • #10
    Jane Yolen
    “Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
    Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

  • #11
    Patricia A. McKillip
    “Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
    Patricia A. McKillip

  • #12
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #13
    Maya Angelou
    “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
    Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

  • #14
    Richard Hughes
    “Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
    Richard Hughes

  • #15
    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

  • #16
    Gary Paulsen
    “I read like a wolf eats.
    I read myself to sleep every night.”
    Gary Paulsen

  • #17
    Jean Kerr
    “I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.”
    Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines

  • #18
    Brian Selznick
    “Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.”
    Brian Selznick, Wonderstruck

  • #19
    Aldous Huxley
    “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

  • #20
    Emily Brontë
    “If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
    Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

  • #21
    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

  • #22
    Frank McCourt
    “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

  • #23
    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #24
    Stephen  King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #25
    Shel Silverstein
    “Do a loony-goony dance
    'Cross the kitchen floor,
    Put something silly in the world
    That ain't been there before.”
    Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic

  • #26
    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #27
    Jack London
    “He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.”
    Jack London, The Call of the Wild

  • #28
    José Saramago
    “Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”
    Jose Saramago

  • #29
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

  • #30
    “Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
    Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn



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