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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“What's your best discovery?" asked the mole.

"That I'm enough as I am," said the boy.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“What is the bravest thing you've ever said? asked the boy.
'Help,' said the horse.
'Asking for help isn't giving up,' said the horse. 'It's refusing to give up.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“What do you want to be when you grow up?"

"Kind," said the boy.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“Always remember you matter, you're important and you are loved, and you bring to this world things no one else can.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“Do you have a favourite saying?" asked the boy.
"Yes" said the Mole.
"What is it?"
"If at first you don't succeed, have some cake"
"I see, does it work?"
"Every time”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse / A Poem for Every Night of the Year / A Poem for Every Day of the Year

“You’re gorgeous, Oliver. I know you don’t see it but let me see it for both of us.
~ Dean, Out of the Frying Pan”
― Elouise East, Out of the Frying Pan

“He had never said and yet heard so many words in the silence before.
~ Prince Douglas, Rogue Royal”
― Elouise East, Rogue Royal

“Humans really can be such curiously artistic creatures. They make unquestionably beautiful things when they put their minds to it. It is an interesting paradox of the species, given the small-mindedness of so many, and their propensity for destruction in all its forms.”
― J.C. Andrijeski, Quentin Black Mystery Collection