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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.”
    L.M. Montgomery

  • #4
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #5
    Charles Lamb
    “Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
    Charles Lamb, The life, letters and writings of Charles Lamb Volume 3

  • #6
    John Milton
    “For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”
    John Milton, Areopagitica

  • #7
    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #8
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    “My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
    Ashleigh Brilliant

  • #9
    Mitch Albom
    “Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.”
    Mitch Albom, For One More Day

  • #10
    Mitch Albom
    “You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”
    Mitch Albom, For One More Day
    tags: life

  • #11
    Mitch Albom
    “Kids chase the love that eludes them.”
    Mitch Albom, For One More Day
    tags: love

  • #12
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #13
    Edward Gorey
    “The helpful thought for which you look
    Is written somewhere in a book.”
    Edward Gorey

  • #14
    Mindy Kaling
    “One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.”
    Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

  • #15
    Mindy Kaling
    “I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world.”
    Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

  • #16
    Mindy Kaling
    “It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship.”
    Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

  • #17
    Mindy Kaling
    “I don’t think it should be socially acceptable for people to say they are “bad with names.” No one is bad with names. That is not a real thing. Not knowing people’s names isn’t a neurological condition; it’s a choice. You choose not to make learning people’s names a priority. It’s like saying, “Hey, a disclaimer about me: I’m rude.”
    Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

  • #18
    Mindy Kaling
    “Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.”
    Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

  • #19
    Mindy Kaling
    “I think when men hear that women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anywhere. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life.”
    Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

  • #20
    L. Frank Baum
    “No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
    L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

  • #21
    Nancy R. Pearcey
    “Beginning with sin instead of creation is like trying to read a book by opening it in the middle: You don’t know the characters and can’t make sense of the plot.”
    Nancy Pearcey, Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity

  • #22
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle

  • #23
    Margaret Fuller
    “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
    Margaret Fuller

  • #24
    George Eliot
    “If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
    George Eliot, Middlemarch

  • #25
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

  • #26
    Geraldine Brooks
    “For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
    Geraldine Brooks, March

  • #27
    Thomas Hardy
    “They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”
    Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

  • #28
    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

  • #29
    L.M. Montgomery
    “If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon

  • #30
    L.M. Montgomery
    “A woman who has a sense of humor possesses no refuge from the merciless truth about herself. She cannot think herself misunderstood. She cannot revel in self-pity. She cannot comfortably damn any one who differs from her.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs



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