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  • #1
    David  Mitchell
    “I put my hand on the altar rail. 'What if ... what if Heaven is real, but only in moments? Like a glass of water on a hot day when you're dying of thirst, or when someone's nice to you for no reason, or ...' Mam's pancakes with Toblerone sauce; Dad dashing up from the bar just to tell me, 'Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite'; or Jacko and Sharon singing 'For She's A Squishy Marshmallow' instead of 'For She's A Jolly Good Fellow' every single birthday and wetting themselves even though it's not at all funny; and Brendan giving his old record player to me instead of one of his mates. 'S'pose Heaven's not like a painting that's just hanging there for ever, but more like ... Like the best song anyone ever wrote, but a song you only catch in snatches, while you're alive, from passing cars, or ... upstairs windows when you're lost ...”
    David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

  • #2
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • #3
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?” Aunty Ifeka said. “Your life belongs to you and you alone.”
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

  • #4
    Emily St. John Mandel
    “I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.”
    Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

  • #5
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.”
    Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

  • #6
    Vaddey Ratner
    “I told you stories to give you wings, Raami, so that you would never be trapped by anything-your name, your title, the limits of your body, this world's suffering”
    Vaddey Ratner, In the Shadow of the Banyan

  • #7
    Cynthia Bond
    “If you brave enough to live it, the least I can do is listen.”
    Cynthia Bond, Ruby

  • #8
    George R.R. Martin
    “My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #9
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
    Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • #10
    George R.R. Martin
    “The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)”
    George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

  • #11
    Haruki Murakami
    “I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. No promises to keep.”
    Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

  • #12
    Lemony Snicket
    “All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #13
    Philip Pullman
    “So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.”
    Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

  • #14
    Maurice Sendak
    “And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.”
    Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
    tags: love

  • #15
    Neil Gaiman
    “What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
    'Cats don't have names,' it said.
    'No?' said Coraline.
    'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #16
    Liu Cixin
    “If I destroy you, what business is it of yours?”
    Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

  • #17
    Liu Cixin
    “The child that was human civilization had opened the door to her home and glanced outside. The endless night terrified her so much that she shuddered against the expansive and profound darkness, and shut the door firmly.”
    Liu Cixin, Death's End

  • #18
    Mariana Enriquez
    “I shall plunge down into the abysmal horror of madness and death—or I shall walk upon the dawn.”
    Mariana Enríquez, A Sunny Place for Shady People



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