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  • #1
    L.M. Montgomery
    “True friends are always together in spirit.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #2
    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #3
    Jane Austen
    “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #4
    Jane Austen
    “From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #5
    Jane Austen
    “I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
    Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

  • #6
    Jane Austen
    “She was stronger alone…”
    Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

  • #7
    Jane Austen
    “Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.”
    Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

  • #8
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #9
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #10
    J.K. Rowling
    “Don't talk to me."
    "Why not?"
    "Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret...”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #11
    J.K. Rowling
    “Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #12
    J.K. Rowling
    “Constant vigilance!”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #13
    J.K. Rowling
    “Twitchy little ferret, aren't you, Malfoy?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #14
    J.K. Rowling
    “By Gryffindor, the bravest were
    Prized far beyond the rest;
    For Ravenclaw, the cleverest
    Would always be the best;
    For Hufflepuff, hard workers were
    Most worthy of admission;
    And power-hungry Slytherin
    Loved those of great ambition.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #15
    J.K. Rowling
    “I love magic!”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #16
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #17
    Steve  Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    Steve Martin

  • #18
    J.K. Rowling
    “Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #19
    J.K. Rowling
    “Swish and flick.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #20
    J.K. Rowling
    “Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus

    [never tickle a sleeping dragon]”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #21
    J.K. Rowling
    “I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #22
    Jasper Fforde
    “If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
    Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

  • #23
    Jasper Fforde
    “Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.”
    Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

  • #24
    Jasper Fforde
    “Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.”
    Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels

  • #25
    Jasper Fforde
    “Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.”
    Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

  • #26
    Jasper Fforde
    “Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.”
    Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

  • #27
    Jasper Fforde
    “Do I have to talk to insane people?"
    "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.”
    Jasper Fforde, The Woman Who Died a Lot

  • #28
    Jasper Fforde
    “Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.”
    Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels

  • #29
    Jasper Fforde
    “Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.”
    Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book

  • #30
    Christopher Moore
    “People, generally, suck.”
    Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror



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