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“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

“There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia

“I don't know how it is...but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Masqueraders

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

“Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don’t notice it, but, out of the blue, it’ll flare to life.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Storm Glass

“I miss you.
I miss you. I miss you, I miss you.
Be ready, because when I see you, I'll never let you go again.”
― Veronica Rossi, Through the Ever Night

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“Success is sweeter and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.”
― Amos Bronson Alcott