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  • #1
    Bram Stoker
    “Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.”
    Bram Stoker, Dracula

  • #2
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #3
    H. Rider Haggard
    “Surely my lord will not hide his beautiful white legs!" exclaimed Infadoos regretfully.

    But Good persisted, and once only did the Kukuana people get the chance of seeing his beautiful legs again. Good is a very modest man. Henceforward they had to satisfy their aesthetic longings with his one whisker, his transparent eye, and his movable teeth.”
    H.Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines

  • #4
    Gregory Maguire
    “Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else?”
    Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

  • #5
    H.G. Wells
    “They were put into my pockets by Weena, when I traveled into Time.”
    H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

  • #6
    Patrick Ness
    Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?
    Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

  • #7
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

  • #8
    Markus Zusak
    “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #9
    Anthony Doerr
    “We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”
    Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

  • #10
    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

  • #11
    Charles Dickens
    “There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
    Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

  • #12
    Charles Dickens
    “Please, sir, I want some more.”
    Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

  • #13
    Charles Dickens
    “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
    Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

  • #14
    Charles Dickens
    “Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”
    Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

  • #15
    Douglas Adams
    “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #16
    Douglas Adams
    “Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #17
    Khaled Hosseini
    “For you, a thousand times over”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #19
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #20
    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

  • #21
    William Shakespeare
    “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
    William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  • #22
    William Shakespeare
    “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
    William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

  • #23
    Alexandre Dumas
    “Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”
    Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

  • #24
    Alexandre Dumas
    “We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.”
    Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

  • #25
    Alexandre Dumas
    “I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”
    Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

  • #26
    Christopher Paolini
    “Thats the spirit-one part brave,three parts fool.”
    Christopher Paolini, Eragon

  • #27
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #28
    Aldous Huxley
    “If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

  • #29
    Aldous Huxley
    “Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

  • #30
    Aldous Huxley
    “But every one belongs to every one else”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World



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