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  • #1
    George R.R. Martin
    “You were made to be kissed, often and well.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

  • #2
    George R.R. Martin
    “All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

  • #3
    George R.R. Martin
    “I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

  • #4
    J.M. Barrie
    “But where do you live mostly now?"
    With the lost boys."
    Who are they?"
    They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expanses. I'm captain."
    What fun it must be!"
    Yes," said cunning Peter, "but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship."
    Are none of the others girls?"
    Oh no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #5
    George R.R. Martin
    “You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #6
    J.M. Barrie
    “Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #7
    George R.R. Martin
    “It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

  • #9
    George R.R. Martin
    “Foolish woman, will holding it secret in your heart make it any less true? If you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a dream, less than a dream, a nightmare half-remembered? Oh, if only the gods would be so good.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

  • #10
    J.M. Barrie
    “One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #10
    George R.R. Martin
    “Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)”
    George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

  • #11
    George R.R. Martin
    “She had never loved him so much as she did in that instant.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #12
    George R.R. Martin
    “She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #13
    George R.R. Martin
    “Laughter is poison to fear.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #14
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #21
    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

  • #25
    Thomas Mann
    “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
    Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

  • #30
    Dorothy Parker
    “I hate writing, I love having written.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #31
    John Green
    “Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."

    [Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]”
    John Green

  • #32
    Leo Tolstoy
    “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #33
    Stendhal
    “A good book is an event in my life.”
    Stendhal, The Red and the Black

  • #34
    Mindy McGinnis
    “You see it in all animals - the female of the species is more deadly than the male.'

    'Except humans.”
    Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species

  • #35
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Dory is what Mum used to call a "strong-looking woman," which means that, from the back, she looked like a man, and, from the front, you preferred the back”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races
    tags: humor

  • #36
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “I feel a strange, fierce squeeze in my heart when I see him, like pride, although there's nothing about Sean that I can take credit for.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

  • #37
    André Aciman
    “If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.”
    André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

  • #38
    André Aciman
    “If he knew, if he only knew that I was giving him every chance to put two and two together and come up with a number bigger than infinity.”
    André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

  • #39
    Andy Weir
    “It’s true, you know. In space, no one can hear you scream like a little girl.”
    Andy Weir, The Martian

  • #40
    William Goldman
    “Now what happens?" asked the man in black.
    "We face each other as God intended," Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone."
    "You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that it?”
    William Goldman, The Princess Bride

  • #41
    William Goldman
    “Back, Witch—"
    "I'm not a witch, I'm your wife—”
    William Goldman, The Princess Bride

  • #42
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “If she knew how often I was thinking about her, she wouldn't feel lonely.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

  • #43
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Love and pride don't mix.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six



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