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    Katherine Rundell
    “It's inhuman to take your books away before you know the end.”
    ― Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder
    tags: books, reading, stories
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    The world was hers for the reading.
    “The world was hers for the reading.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    tags: books, feminist, reading
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    Patrick Ness
    “Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: books, stories
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
    tags: inkheart
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    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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    John Green
    “I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    Georgia O'Keeffe
    “I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.”
    ― Georgia O'Keefe
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: despair, hope
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope
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    Robin Sloan
    “Some of them are working hard indeed."
    "What are they doing?"
    "My boy!" he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious: "They are reading.”
    ― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
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    Holly Smale
    “1. You left a multipack of Mars Bars on top of your wardrobe. Can I have one? Dad x

    2. I had three. Hope that's OK. Dad x

    3. I'm just going to have one more. Dad x

    4. Harriet, your Dad's made himself sick on an entire multipack of Mars Bars again. Please don't leave sweets where we can find them. A x”
    ― Holly Smale, Model Misfit
    tags: british, funny, humour, texting
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  • #12
    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: eating-reading
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    “If there are as many connections in your brain as there are stars in the universe, why ask for superpowers?”
    ― Clémentine Beauvais, Sleuth on Skates
    tags: inspirational, intelligence, smart
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  • #15
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
    tags: ideas, libraries, sarah-j-maas, throne-of-glass
    10942 likes

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    Rainbow Rowell
    “I'm just really active in the fandom."
    "What the fuck is 'the fandom'?”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
    tags: cath, fandom, fangirl, reagan
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    C.S. Lewis
    “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, books, re-reading, reading
    6205 likes

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    Betty Smith
    “And always, there was the magic of learning things.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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    Katherine Rundell
    “Stories can start revolutions.”
    ― Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder
    tags: books, reading, stories
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    Katherine Rundell
    “People say we can't do anything about the way the world is; they say it's set in stone. I say it looks like stone, but it's mostly paint and cardboard.”
    ― Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder
    tags: change, world
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    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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    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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    Roald Dahl
    “So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
    ― Roald Dahl, Matilda
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    Patrick Ness
    “What's important is that I know how much you worry about shit. And what's also important is that I know a big part of your worry is that, no matter what group of friends you're in, no matter how long you've known them, you always assume you're the least-wanted person there. The one everyone else could do without.”
    ― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here
    tags: worries
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    Jenny Lawson
    “Last month, as Victor drove me home so I could rest, I told him that sometimes I felt like his life would be easier without me. He paused a moment in thought and then said, “It might be easier. But it wouldn’t be better.”
    ― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
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    Jenny Lawson
    “There will be moments when you have to be a grown-up. Those moments are tricks. Do not fall for them.”
    ― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
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  • #28
    “I don’t understand why you insist on calling yourselves Three Little Piglettes,” Mum groans. “It’s a horrible name.”

    “We’ll make it beautiful, you’ll see. Or better, we’ll make it powerful.”
    ― Clémentine Beauvais, Piglettes
    tags: bullying, feminism, girls, inspirational
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  • #29
    John Green
    “Your now is not your forever.”
    ― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
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    Rowan Coleman
    “I think men that read books are the most attractive kind.”
    ― Rowan Coleman, The Summer of Impossible Things
    tags: books, men, reading, relationships
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    Rowan Coleman
    “Stories are the only things that can ever really change the world.”
    ― Rowan Coleman, The Summer of Impossible Things
    tags: books, reading, stories
    4 likes



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