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  • #1
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #2
    Paul Acampora
    “We will speak for the books."
    ...
    "Like the Lorax?"
    "The Lorax speaks for the trees," I remind her.
    "Books are made out of paper. Paper is made out of trees."
    "What about e-books?"
    "We can speak for them too."
    "Audiobooks?"
    "Audiobooks speak for themselves." She grins. "Get it?”
    Paul Acampora, I Kill the Mockingbird

  • #3
    Tom Perrotta
    “Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”
    Tom Perrotta, Election

  • #4
    “Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
    Danielle Steel, The Gift

  • #5
    Djuna Barnes
    “The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.”
    Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
    tags: pain

  • #6
    Christopher Paolini
    “Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
    Christopher Paolini, Eragon

  • #7
    Christopher Paolini
    “Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”
    Christopher Paolini, Eldest

  • #8
    Christopher Paolini
    “Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
    Christopher Paolini

  • #9
    Dr. Seuss
    “I will not eat them in a house, i will not eat them with a mouse,i will not eat them in a box i will not eat them with a fox, i will not eat them here of there i will not eat them anywhere, I do not like green eggs and ham i do not like them sam i am”
    Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham
    tags: food

  • #10
    Charles Darwin
    “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
    Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin

  • #11
    Gertrude Stein
    “One must dare to be happy. ”
    Gertrude Stein

  • #12
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “After a moment he reached out and brushed the unruly red hair back from his face, like a mother would with a sleeping child. Then he began to sing softly, the tune lilting and strange, almost a lullaby:”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #13
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Bast spoke up. “May I ask a question, Reshi?” Kote smiled gently. “Always, Bast.” “A troublesome question?” “Those tend to be the only worthwhile kind.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #14
    Megan Whalen Turner
    “Are you telling me in your own gentle way to stop whining?"
    "Yes."
    "I don't feel like a hero. I feel like an idiot."
    "I think heroes generally do, but those men believe in you."
    "I did wait until I was outside before I threw up.”
    Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

  • #15
    “How can I know what I’ll do, until I’ve done it? How can I say?”
    Anonymous

  • #16
    Joe Abercrombie
    “On the battlefield there are no rules.”
    Joe Abercrombie
    tags: life, rules

  • #17
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
    William Makepeace Thackeray

  • #18
    John Steinbeck
    “There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
    John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

  • #19
    Cassandra Clare
    “Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.
    "Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.”
    Cassandra Clare

  • #20
    Diana Gabaldon
    “You're tearin' my guts out, Claire.”
    Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

  • #21
    “Never trust a duck.”
    Will Herondale

  • #22
    Sasha Alsberg
    “Honestly, I hate when in books, the guys changes the girl's life. Like, no. The girl needs to change her own life.”
    Sasha Alsberg a

  • #23
    Rebecca Makkai
    “I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved.”
    Rebecca Makkai

  • #24
    Cassandra Clare
    “I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
    "Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #25
    Amie Kaufman
    “Major, to what extent did you act upon your feelings for Miss LaRoux?"

    "Medium."

    "Excuse me?"

    "How am I supposed to answer that question?”
    Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner, These Broken Stars

  • #26
    Cassandra Clare
    “There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Glass



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