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“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Strange, isn’t it? To love a book. When the words on the pages become so precious that they feel like part of your own history because they are. It’s nice to finally have someone read stories I know so intimately.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“My words are unerring tools of
destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Not all stories speak to all listeners, but all listeners can find a story that does, somewhere, sometime. In one form or another.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“... 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

“If you never saw the stars, candles were enough.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“We are all stardust and stories.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“Neither could really help the other find sleep. But sometimes it was better just to know you weren't the only one awake.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves