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  • #1
    Roald Dahl
    “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #2
    Edward Eager
    “The best kind of book," said Barnaby, "is a magic book."

    "Naturally," said John.”
    Edward Eager, Seven-Day Magic

  • #3
    Lloyd Alexander
    “Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.”
    Lloyd Alexander

  • #4
    Edward Eager
    “But in the garden the sun still shone. The innumerable bees hummed. The scent of thyme hung on the air. But only the Natterjack was there to breathe the fragrant essence of it.

    He and the garden were waiting. They were waiting for more children. They didn't care how long they waited. They had all the time in the world.

    -The Time Garden, Edward Eager”
    Edward Eager, The Time Garden

  • #5
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.”
    Dr Suess

  • #6
    Lloyd Alexander
    “Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.”
    Lloyd Alexander, Time Cat

  • #7
    Lloyd Alexander
    “All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts. ”
    Lloyd Alexander

  • #8
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #9
    Charles M. Schulz
    “Happiness is a warm puppy.”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #10
    Winston S. Churchill
    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #11
    Will Rogers
    “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
    Will Rogers

  • #12
    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #13
    Charles M. Schulz
    “Stop worrying about the world ending today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #14
    Charles M. Schulz
    “It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon! While millions of people were starving, the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was growing up.”
    Charles M. Schulz, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night, Snoopy

  • #15
    Louise Fitzhugh
    “YOU CAN'T BE TOO OLD TO SPY EXCEPT IF YOU WERE FIFTY YOU MIGHT FALL OFF A FIRE ESCAPE, BUT YOU COULD SPY AROUND ON THE GROUND A LOT.”
    Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy

  • #16
    Annie Barrows
    “If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.”
    Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

  • #17
    Annie Barrows
    “Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
    Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

  • #18
    Robert Bloch
    “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
    Robert Bloch

  • #19
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #20
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #22
    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
    Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

  • #23
    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

  • #24
    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #25
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #26
    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #27
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #28
    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

  • #29
    Anna Quindlen
    “I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”
    Anna Quindlen

  • #30
    Fred Rogers
    “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
    Fred Rogers

  • #31
    Fred Rogers
    “If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”
    Fred Rogers



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