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“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

“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

“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.”
― Greg Bear

“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
― C. J. Cherryh

“I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“Dear parents, Jasmine was in a relationship with a dirty homeless boy named Aladdin. Snow White lived alone with 7 men. Pinnochio was a liar. Robin Hood was a thief. Tarzan walked around without clothes on. A stranger kissed sleeping beauty and she married him. Cinderella lied and snuck out at night to attend a party. You can't blame us. We were taught to rebel since a young age.”
― Walt Disney Company

“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”
― Tuli Kupferberg

“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

“We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.”
― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
― Gustave Flaubert

“You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.”
― Vandana Shiva

“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
― James Burke

“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

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

“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
― Lorrie Moore

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.”
― Henry Austin Dobson

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

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

“There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!”
― Vicki Baum, Ballerina