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

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.
"Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.”
― Cassandra Clare

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.”
― Chris Rock

“What is worth having is worth working for.”
― Philip Pullman

“***HERE IS A SMALL FACT***
You are going to die.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.”
― Tennessee Williams, Memoirs

“I've gotten really hot since you went blind.”
― john green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Fairytales teach children that the world is fraught with danger, including life-threatening danger; but by being clever (always), honest (as a rule, but with common-sense exceptions), courteous (especially to the elderly, no matter their apparent social station), and kind (to anyone in obvious need), even a child can succeed where those who seem more qualified have failed.

And this precisely what children most need to hear.

To let them go on believing that the world is safe, that they will be provided for and achieve worthwhile things even if they remain stupid, shirk integrity, despise courtesy, and act only from self-interest, that they ought to rely on those stronger, smarter, and more able to solve their problems, would be the gravest disservice: to them, and to society as a whole.

-On the Supposed Unsuitability of Fairytales for Children”
― J. Aleksandr Wootton

“The stories we are told as children do, undoubtedly, mark us for life. They are often stories of dark and terrible things, and we are usually told them just before the lights are turned out and we are left alone; but we love them. We love them when we first hear them, and even when we are grown, and think we have forgotten them entirely, they never lose their power over us.”
― Neil Bartlett, Skin Lane

“The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all of us, engaged in telling it.”
― J. Aleksandr Wootton, Her Unwelcome Inheritance