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  • #1
    Susanna Clarke
    “Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange.
    Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.”
    Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

  • #2
    George R.R. Martin
    “... 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

  • #3
    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #4
    George R.R. Martin
    “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

  • #5
    W.S. Merwin
    “Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
    W.S. Merwin

  • #6
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #7
    Charlotte Brontë
    “It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself,
    than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all
    connected with you.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #8
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #9
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express."

    - Jane Eyre”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #10
    Umberto Eco
    “To survive, you must tell stories.”
    Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

  • #11
    David Foster Wallace
    “Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #12
    Taylor Caldwell
    “Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living...”
    Taylor Caldwell

  • #13
    Seneca
    “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #14
    Seneca
    “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca



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