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  • #1
    Anthony Doerr
    “Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
    Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

  • #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
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

  • #4
    Andy Weir
    “Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”
    Andy Weir, The Martian

  • #5
    Anthony Doerr
    “But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”
    Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

  • #6
    Cinda Williams Chima
    “Every time I think I’ve lost everything, I find there’s still something else to lose.”
    Cinda Williams Chima, The Gray Wolf Throne
    tags: life

  • #7
    Ned Vizzini
    “Life can't be cured, but it can be managed.”
    Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

  • #8
    Anthony Doerr
    “Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”
    Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

  • #9
    Anthony Doerr
    “So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
    Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

  • #10
    Tim O'Brien
    “They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.”
    Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

  • #11
    Tim O'Brien
    “They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
    Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

  • #12
    Tim O'Brien
    “Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.”
    Tim O'Brien

  • #13
    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

  • #14
    Adam  Johnson
    “But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.”
    Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son

  • #15
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #16
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #17
    Fredrik Backman
    “Death’s greatest power is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people want to stop living.”
    Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

  • #18
    Fredrik Backman
    “Never mess with someone who has more spare time than you do[.]”
    Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

  • #19
    Fredrik Backman
    “Men are what they are because of what they do. Not what they say.”
    Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

  • #20
    Fredrik Backman
    “You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away,”
    Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

  • #21
    Neil Gaiman
    “Hey," said Shadow. "Huginn or Muninn, or whoever you are."
    The bird turned, head tipped, suspiciously, on one side, and it stared at him with bright eyes.
    "Say 'Nevermore,'" said Shadow.
    "Fuck you," said the raven.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #22
    Neil Gaiman
    “I miss you', he admitted.
    'I'm here', she said.
    'That's when I miss you most. When you're here. When you aren't here, when you're just a ghost of the past or a dream from another life, it's easier then.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #23
    Fredrik Backman
    “An unreasonable amount of paperwork is required these days just to be a human being.”
    Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

  • #24
    Fredrik Backman
    “A human being may not choose her circumstances, but she does choose her actions”
    Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

  • #25
    Gautama Buddha
    “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
    Buddha

  • #26
    Gautama Buddha
    “True love is born from understanding.”
    The Buddha

  • #28
    Anthony Doerr
    “Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
    Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

  • #29
    “Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren. (anonymous twitter joke referenced in the book)”
    Anonymous, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

  • #30
    Jay Kristoff
    “Never flinch. Never fear. And never, ever forget.”
    Jay Kristoff, Godsgrave



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