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  • #1
    Wilkie Collins
    “The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
    Wilkie Collins, Armadale

  • #2
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #3
    August Strindberg
    “Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”
    August Strindberg, Miss Julie

  • #4
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #5
    Edith Wharton
    “Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
    Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses

  • #6
    Brian Selznick
    “I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
    Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

  • #7
    Wu Cheng'en
    “Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.”
    Wu Cheng'en, Monkey: A Journey to the West

  • #8
    Lewis Carroll
    “And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" I suppose so, said Alice. "Well then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #9
    Lewis Carroll
    “Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?”

    The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?”

    “I don’t know,” Alice answered.

    “Then,” said the cat, “it really doesn’t matter, does it?”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

  • #10
    Lewis Carroll
    “I don't like the looks of it,' said the King: 'however, it may kis my hand, if it likes.'
    'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #11
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #12
    Helen Keller
    “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
    Helen Keller

  • #13
    Jane Austen
    “One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #14
    Jane Austen
    “There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #15
    Emily Dickinson
    “While I was fearing it, it came,
       But came with less of fear,
    Because that fearing it so long
       Had almost made it dear.”
    Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete

  • #16
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake!" (Ms. Pole)”
    Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford

  • #17
    Diane Setterfield
    “There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.”
    Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

  • #18
    Georgia   Scott
    “Love is not a weakness. It's the bravest act of our lives.”
    Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

  • #19
    Madeline  Martin
    “There might be loss, and sometimes there may be fear, but there was also courage to face such challenges. For in a world such as theirs, with people of spirit and love, and with so many different tales of strength and victory to inspire, there would always be hope.”
    Madeline Martin, The Last Bookshop in London

  • #20
    Madeline  Martin
    “I do enjoy reading to myself,” Olivia said. “It’s like my brain drinking in something good, like warm chocolate milk.”
    Madeline Martin, The Booklover's Library



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