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    Wally Lamb
    “We lived, lulled, on the fault line of chaos. Change could come explosively, and out of nowhere.”
    ― Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed
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    “I lay the book on the floor, open to the middle. It's a lovely volume, green leather covers, engraved endpapers. I remove my shoes and step into it up to my ankles, knees, hips, chest, until only my head is showing and the pages spread around me and the words bob up and down and bump into my neck, and the punctuation sticks to my chin and cheeks so I look like I need a shave.”
    ― Lou Beach
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    Nick Hornby
    “We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.”
    ― Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree
    tags: books, reading
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    Astrid Lindgren
    “A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
    ― Astrid Lindgren
    tags: books, children, children-s-literature
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    Andrea Barrett
    “We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
    ― Andrea Barrett
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    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
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    George Gissing
    “I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.”
    ― George Gissing
    tags: books, literature, nose, reading
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    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    ― Charlaine Harris
    tags: books-vacation
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    Dang Thuy Tram
    “Come to me, squeeze my hand, know my loneliness, and give me the love, the strength to prevail on the perilous road before me.”
    ― Dang Thuy Tram
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    Stephen King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: writing
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    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
    tags: books
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    Jonathan Shaw
    “I reminded myself that worrying is like praying for bad shit to happen.”
    ― Jonathan Shaw, Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes
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    Agatha Christie
    “Very few of us are what we seem.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist
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    Philippe Ariès
    “A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
    ― Philippe Ariès
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    Willa Cather
    “The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
    ― Willa Cather
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    Marianne Moore
    “... we
    do not admire what
    we cannot understand.”
    ― Marianne Moore, Complete Poems
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    John Milton
    “What hath night to do with sleep?”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: night, paradise-lost, sleep
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Forever is composed of nows.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment
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    Colleen Hoover
    “Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Slammed
    tags: life
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    Tamora Pierce
    “Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones
    tags: humor, obedience
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    Edna O'Brien
    “In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
    ― Edna O'Brien, A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories
    tags: comment, depth, emotion, inadequacy
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe
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    Anzia Yezierska
    “When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.”
    ― Anzia Yezierska
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    Jean Genet
    “A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
    ― Jean Genet
    tags: darkness, dreams, time
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    James Burke
    “When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
    ― James Burke
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
    tags: bella-swan, dreams, edward, hope, night, stars
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    “My goodness, no one gives a gift to Santa Claus!”
    ― Michael Brown
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    David Sedaris
    “If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?”
    ― David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice
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    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
    tags: flaws, individuality, inspirational
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    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
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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