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“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter

“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“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

“There's something ugly about the flawless.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Even death has a heart.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“A small fact:
You are going to die....does this worry you?”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Goodbye, Papa, you saved me. You taught me to read. No one can play like you. I'll never drink champagne. No one can play like you."
-Liesel”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“A pak Snílek otevřel tu svou tašku, ze které může vytáhnout jakoukoli knížku si zamane, jako Hermiona ze své kabelky. A vlastně i on mi často připadá jako čaroděj. Někdy ani jednu z těch knížek nepoužije, jen je nechá ležet na katedře. Říká, že pro něj jsou knížky jako součást domova - tam, kde je má, se cítí doma.”
― Alessandro D'Avenia, Bianca come il latte, rossa come il sangue

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. Good for her! Not for me.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“Bravery is being unafraid of something other people are afraid of. Courage is being afraid, but strong enough to do it anyway.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“To look up at the nighttime sky is to become a part of a long line of people throughout human history who looked above at that same set of stars. It is to witness time unfolding.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“Astronomy was history. Because space was time. And that was the thing she loved most about the universe itself. When you look at the red star Antares in the southern sky, you are looking over thirty-three hundred trillion miles away. But you are also looking more than five hundred and fifty years into the past. Antares is so far away that its light takes five hundred and fifty years to reach your eye on Earth. Five hundred and fifty light-years away. So when you look out at the sky, the farther you can see, the further back you are looking in time. The space between you and the star is time.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“Admitting you were afraid always took more guts than pretending you weren’t.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere