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“In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.”
― Raymond Chandler

“It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one who did.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

“One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!”
― Louis L'Amour

“Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.”
― A.A. Milne

“You know quite well that suffering can't be driven from the world by violence. Nor can it be wiped out by bread, work, and welfare. You do know that, don't you? You yourself are full of tears that cannot be wiped away.”
― Luise Rinser

“It's nice, Tom. I never milked in a barn so nice.”
― Walter D. Edmonds , Bert Breen's Barn

“Oh, don't worry about that," said the Mathemagician as he scooped up the pieces. "We use the broken ones for fractions.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“I cannot take your sense of humor--and, with it, you've nothing to fear from me.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside

“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“My life is too lonely without fictional people crowding my mind.”
― Rebecca Raisin, The Little Bookshop on the Seine

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.”
― Jennifer Weiner

“He had that indefinable air which comes to young men who have had to make their way up from a ten-dollar start.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Summer Moonshine

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.”
― Elizabeth Enright, The Four-Story Mistake

“If you live for people's acceptance, you'll die from their rejection.”
― Lecrae Moore, Unashamed

“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”
― Markus Zusak

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles!”
― Hergé