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  • #1
    C.S. Lewis
    “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #2
    Joseph Heller
    “Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #2
    Wilkie Collins
    “The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?”
    Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

  • #3
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #3
    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    Jim Henson

  • #4
    Eoin Colfer
    “Who are you?" he asked.
    I am the future queen of this world, at the very least. You may refer to me as Mistress Koboi for the next five minutes. After that you may refer to me as Aaaaarrrrgh, hold your throat, die screaming, and so on.”
    Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox

  • #6
    Eoin Colfer
    “Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder”
    Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox

  • #8
    Eoin Colfer
    “Good. Illegal is always faster.”
    Eoin Colfer

  • #9
    Eoin Colfer
    “No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.”
    Eoin Colfer, The Lost Colony

  • #10
    Eoin Colfer
    “Either that boy is the sanest creature on Earth, he thought, or he is so disturbed that our tests cannot even begin to scratch the surface.”
    Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian

  • #11
    Elizabeth Peters
    “The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.”
    Elizabeth Peters, The Hippopotamus Pool

  • #12
    Wilkie Collins
    “Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.”
    Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

  • #13
    Wilkie Collins
    “...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all. ”
    Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
    tags: humor

  • #14
    Wilkie Collins
    “Some of us rush through life and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey sat through life.”
    Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

  • #15
    Wilkie Collins
    “I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.”
    Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

  • #16
    George R.R. Martin
    “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

  • #17
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #18
    Roxane Gay
    “An angry man in cinema is Batman. An angry male musician is a member of Metallica. An angry male writer is Chekhov. An angry male politician is passionate, a revolutionary. He is a Donald Trump or a Bernie Sanders. The anger of men is a powerful enough tide to swing an election. But the anger of women? That has no place in government, so it has to flood the streets.”
    Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

  • #19
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Our words, like our hearts, are weapons still hot from the forging, beating themselves into new shapes each time we swing them.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea



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