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    Colin Meloy
    “We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.”
    Colin Meloy, Wildwood

  • #2
    Gregory Maguire
    “You confuse not speaking with not listening.”
    Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

  • #3
    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    Victor Hugo

  • #4
    E.B. White
    “A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book."

    [Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]”
    E.B. White

  • #5
    Toni Morrison
    “At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #6
    D.H. Lawrence
    “Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”
    D.H. Lawrence

  • #7
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

  • #8
    Alexandra Elle
    “I've been hurt so bad and I still love so hard. I admire my heart for that.”
    Alexandra Elle, Words from a Wanderer

  • #9
    J.D. Salinger
    “I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music and I'll bolt the door.”
    J.D. Salinger, A Boy in France

  • #10
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #11
    Jonathan Gottschall
    “We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.”
    Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

  • #12
    Cassandra Clare
    “Life was an uncertain thing, and there were some moments one wished to remember, to imprint upon one's mind that the memory might be taken out later, like a flower pressed between the pages of a book, and admired and recollected anew. - Sophie and Gideon Lightwood”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #13
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
    Edgar Allen Poe

  • #14
    Victor Hugo
    “A writer is a world trapped in a person.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #15
    Emily Dickinson
    “To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #16
    T.S. Eliot
    “The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #17
    David Foster Wallace
    “How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
    David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

  • #18
    Italo Calvino
    “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
    Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

  • #19
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #21
    T.S. Eliot
    “April is the cruelest month, breeding
    lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
    memory and desire, stirring
    dull roots with spring rain.”
    T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

  • #22
    Edward Gorey
    “The helpful thought for which you look
    Is written somewhere in a book.”
    Edward Gorey

  • #23
    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.”
    Zelda Fitzgerald

  • #24
    Ernest Hemingway
    “When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
    Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

  • #25
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #26
    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.”
    Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

  • #27
    George Bernard Shaw
    “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”
    George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

  • #28
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.”
    Patrick Rothfuss

  • #29
    Paul Laurence Dunbar
    “We wear the mask that grins and lies,
    It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
    This debt we pay to human guile;
    With torn and bleeding hearts we smile”
    Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

  • #30
    Ernest Hemingway
    “We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.”
    Ernest Hemingway



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