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“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again.
"So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking...”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”
― A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet
"You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh”
― A.A. Milne

“Men get nervous when women enjoy themselves without their company. You might discover that we [men] are of limited use.”
― Elizabeth Everett

“I glance back at the fish tank. "Do you think I should have gotten Andromeda a friend?" "You mean like someone to braid her tail fin? Be her designated driver when she's had too much to drink at Atlantis?”
― Lauren Layne, Miranda in Retrograde

“What's this?" I ask, giving it a sniff. "Stilton. The bargaining cheese.”
― Lauren Layne, Miranda in Retrograde

“You know that strange sense you have when someone seems just made for you? Like they were created to check all your boxes?”
― Lauren Layne, Miranda in Retrograde

“I guess what I don’t understand is love, and the way it can have so many different shapes. I don’t understand how it starts, and maybe I am not good at telling when it ends either.”
― Sarah Everett, The Shape of Lost Things

“They felt like small days. But I’m starting to think that all small days add up to Big Days.”
― Sarah Everett, The Shape of Lost Things

“That's the thing about big change isn't it? You want to wait until you are ready, but sometimes you never are.”
― Bree Paulsen, Garlic and the Witch

“Birds are creatures of habit in their habitat.”
― Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

“But I’ve come to understand how the exceptional lurks beneath the ordinary, like the deep and mysterious world beneath the surface of the sea.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River