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“You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.”
― Dick Van Dyke, My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business

“Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.”
― Lauren Willig

“For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.”
― Philippa Gregory

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Yes, women have always had secrets and always will. I'm afraid men would be very distressed to learn what their darlings were thinking. Frankly, I don't think men are strong enough to bear the shock.”
― Carol K Carr, India Black and the Shadows of Anarchy

“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”
― Maya Angelou

“People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“We need more women who are allowed to prove their worth as people, rather than being assessed merely for their potential to create new people.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

“Batman doesn’t want a baby in order to feel he’s ‘done everything’. He’s just saved Gotham again! If this means that Batman must be a feminist role model above, say, Nicola Horlick, then so be it.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

“There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“A reading major, that's what he wants. No response papers, no exams, no analysis, just the reading.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“One of the most common scripts in America is “I should buy a house.” Your house is the American Dream! It’s a bullshit dream propagated by the National Association of Realtors, which is an organization that you’ll find in hell.”
― Tori Dunlap, Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy’s Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love—A Personal Finance Handbook for Women, Mindful Spending, and Financial Literacy