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  • #1
    Mark  Lawrence
    "Undoreth, we. Battle-born. Raise hammer, raise axe, at our war-shout gods tremble.
    Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

  • #2
    George R.R. Martin
    “When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east," she said sadly. "When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When my womb quickens again, and I bear a living child. Then you will return, my sun-and-stars, and not before." -Daenerys Targaryen”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #3
    Pierce Brown
    “Bye, Felicia.”
    Pierce Brown, Morning Star

  • #4
    David Eagleman
    “There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.”
    David M. Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

  • #5
    Daniel Pennac
    “Reader's Bill of Rights

    1. The right to not read

    2. The right to skip pages

    3. The right to not finish

    4. The right to reread

    5. The right to read anything

    6. The right to escapism

    7. The right to read anywhere

    8. The right to browse

    9. The right to read out loud

    10. The right to not defend your tastes”
    Daniel Pennac

  • #6
    Albert Einstein
    “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #8
    Salvador Dalí
    “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
    Salvador Dali

  • #9
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #10
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #11
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #12
    J.K. Rowling
    “Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #13
    J.K. Rowling
    “What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.”
    J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #14
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #15
    Niels Bohr
    “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
    Niels Bohr

  • #16
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #17
    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

  • #18
    Confucius
    “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
    Confucious

  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #20
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #21
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #22
    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    Voltaire

  • #23
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #24
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #25
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #26
    Bertrand Russell
    “One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
    Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

  • #27
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #28
    Carl Sagan
    “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.”
    Carl Sagan

  • #29
    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone



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