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“We’re lied to all our lives. We teach lies to the children, and they pass them on to theirs.”
― Jonathan Friesen, Aquifer

“Even the safest of books are useless without reading.”
― Jonathan Friesen, Aquifer

“There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

“God wants us all to strive to grow more like Jesus, to become holy as he is holy, but God has a specific purpose for each person. How could it not be so? Everyone in a village cannot be a baker, because who would then make the candles or shoe the horses or grow the food? God says we are like a body. . . . Just as the villagers are part of a village and have different tasks, we all have tasks to do for the Lord God.”
― Melanie Dickerson, The Captive Maiden

“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.”
― Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries

“What is the appropriate reply to make to a man who says he loves you?
Thank you. You are very kind.”
― Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries

“Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos. Or if you could instruct people to disregard what you just said, like in a courtroom.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic

“I've done things I deeply regret, but helping you isn't, and never will be one of them.”
― Gray Marie Cox, Of Broken Things and Paint Splatterings

“Chocolate is a substance worth existing for”
― C.G. Drews, A Thousand Perfect Notes

“Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“No one’s stuck anywhere unless they choose to be. The Lord God guides those who are moving forward.”
― Beverly Lewis, The Bridesmaid

“Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.”
― Ellis Peters

“That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society