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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #4
    Cassandra Clare
    “Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?"

    "They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #5
    Cassandra Clare
    “Will: "Nice place to live, isn't it? Let's hope they left something behind other than filth. Forwarding addresses, a few severed limbs, a prostitute or two ..."
    Jem: "Indeed. Perhaps, if we're fortunate, we can still catch syphilis."
    "Or demon pox," Will suggested cheerfully, trying the door under the stairs.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #6
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #7
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #8
    Corey Taylor
    “Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.”
    Corey Taylor, Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good

  • #9
    Corey Taylor
    “The best friends you will ever have are the ones who don't make you feel like you owe them a damn thing.”
    Corey Taylor, Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good

  • #10
    Cassandra Clare
    “Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #11
    Stephen  King
    “Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
    Stephen King, The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate

  • #12
    Stephen  King
    “We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
    Stephen King, It

  • #13
    Stephen  King
    “Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.”
    Stephen King, It

  • #14
    Stephen  King
    “Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”
    Stephen King, It

  • #15
    Cassandra Clare
    “We came to see Jace. Is he alright?"
    "I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #16
    Cassandra Clare
    “Well, I’m not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I’d rather stay down here and rot."
    "Forever?" said Simon. "Forever’s an awfully long time."
    Jace raised his eyebrows. "I knew it," he said. "You want to kiss me, don’t you?”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #17
    Cassandra Clare
    “I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?"
    "A regrettable choice of words," muttered Magnus.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #18
    John Irving
    “You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
    John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

  • #19
    John Irving
    “Keep passing the open windows.”
    John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

  • #20
    John Irving
    “It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”
    John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

  • #21
    John Irving
    “You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.”
    John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

  • #22
    John Irving
    “When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”
    John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

  • #23
    John Irving
    “If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
    John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

  • #24
    John Irving
    “Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”
    John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

  • #25
    Stephen  King
    “Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”
    Stephen King, The Green Mile

  • #26
    Stephen  King
    “Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.”
    Stephen King, The Green Mile

  • #27
    Stephen  King
    “It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.”
    Stephen King, The Green Mile

  • #28
    Benedict Wells
    “There were things I couldn’t say; I could only write them. Because when I spoke, I thought; and when I wrote, I felt.”
    Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #30
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero



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