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“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
― Annie Proulx

“Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.”
― Margaret Mead

“Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.”
― China Miéville, The City & the City

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

“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
― Robert Jordan

“ The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
― Andrea Barrett

“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
― Terry Southern

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
― Shmuley Boteach

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
― Margaret Atwood

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

“Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.”
― Mirza Tahir Ahmad

“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
― JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

“To survive, you must tell stories.”
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

“For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
― Oscar Wilde

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas