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  • #1
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #2
    Shel Silverstein
    “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

  • #3
    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    Charlaine Harris

  • #4
    Jo Walton
    “It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
    Jo Walton, Among Others

  • #5
    Sarah Vowell
    “We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”
    Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

  • #6
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #7
    William Allingham
    “Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.”
    William Allingham

  • #8
    Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
    “Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
    Jean Paul

  • #9
    Colette
    “Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”
    Colette

  • #10
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “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

  • #11
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #12
    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #13
    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #14
    C.S. Lewis
    “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #15
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #16
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #17
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • #18
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #19
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
    Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe

  • #20
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #21
    “Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.”
    Thea Dorn

  • #22
    Ransom Riggs
    “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #23
    Lewis Carroll
    “Curiouser and curiouser!”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #24
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • #25
    A.A. Milne
    “For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.”
    a.a. milne, The World of Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #26
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless.
    Not to speak is to speak.
    Not to act is to act.”
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  • #27
    Roald Dahl
    “There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't even started wondering about yet.”
    Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

  • #28
    C.S. Lewis
    “It is much easier to pray for a bore than to go visit him.”
    C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

  • #29
    Charles Dickens
    “But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.

    Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”
    Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

  • #30
    C.S. Lewis
    “The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.”
    C.S. Lewis



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