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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #3
    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

  • #4
    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #5
    Jane Austen
    “I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #8
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

  • #9
    J.D. Salinger
    “I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #10
    S.E. Hinton
    “I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
    S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

  • #11
    Daniel Glattauer
    “No hay que pensar nunca en perder. De sólo pensarlo se pierde”
    Daniel Glattauer, Gut gegen Nordwind

  • #12
    Emily Brontë
    “If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
    Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

  • #13
    Nicholas Sparks
    “The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.”
    Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

  • #14
    Clare Boothe Luce
    “Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
    Clare Boothe Luce

  • #15
    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

  • #16
    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #17
    Benjamin Spock
    “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
    Benjamin Spock

  • #18
    J.K. Rowling
    “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #19
    Emmuska Orczy
    “The weariest nights, the longest days, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.”
    Baroness Emmuska Orczy

  • #20
    Anne Rice
    “You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
    Anne Rice

  • #21
    Anna Katharine Green
    “Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.”
    Anna Katharine Green, That Affair Next Door

  • #22
    Maxine Hong Kingston
    “In a time of destruction, create something.”
    Maxine Hong Kingston

  • #23
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #24
    Thomas Hardy
    “They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”
    Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

  • #25
    Nuruddin Farah
    “I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.”
    Nuruddin Farah

  • #26
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I like good strong words that mean something…”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #27
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #28
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #29
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #30
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again



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