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  • #1
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

  • #2
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle

  • #3
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

  • #4
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You see, but you do not observe.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia

  • #5
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

  • #6
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear

  • #7
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  • #8
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes

  • #9
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

  • #10
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

  • #11
    Diana Gabaldon
    “For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
    Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

  • #12
    Diana Gabaldon
    “I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”
    Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

  • #13
    Diana Gabaldon
    “I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is the one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest."

    His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me.

    Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.”
    Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

  • #14
    Diana Gabaldon
    “I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.”
    Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

  • #15
    Diana Gabaldon
    “Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone,
    I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.
    I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done.”
    Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

  • #16
    Diana Gabaldon
    “Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.”
    Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

  • #17
    Diana Gabaldon
    “Forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice.”
    Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn

  • #18
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #19
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #20
    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

  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #22
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #23
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #24
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #26
    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #27
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #28
    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

  • #29
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #30
    Stephen  King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft



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