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“Books should broaden us, take us to places we have never been and show us things we’ve never seen, expand our horizons and our way of looking at the world. Limiting your reading to a single genre defeats that. It limits us, makes us smaller. It seemed to me, then as now, that there were good stories and bad stories, and that was the only distinction that truly mattered.”
― George R.R. Martin, Rogues

“Books fall open, you fall in.”
― David T.W. McCord

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“If you believed that thoughts were energy and energy is matter (E=mc2) and matter never disappears, then a person can never truly leave you unless you stop thinking about them. Everything you shared with a person is still there swirling around in the universe. Love, Cam had to admit, might be real. And love endures. Relationships endure. Because thoughts are energy, energy is matter, and matter never disappears.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

“We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the total sum of who we are.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“No matter how our hearts break, we bend toward life, don’t we? We bend toward hope.”
― Anonymous

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“Life was often so cruel, so ugly. And then, in the midst of all the madness, a precious gift would be placed in your lap. Because life could also be so sweet.”
― Wendy Higgins, Sweet Reckoning

“I believe that every person has a responsibility to leave the world a better place than he found it.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Retribution of Mara Dyer

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."

(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)”
― Neil Gaiman

“While my mind plays through the information I’ve compiled about him so far on this night, my mouth is talking stupid fucking Marshalls because my head is still getting around Nick’s words about tikkun olam: Maybe it isn’t that we’re supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we’re the pieces.”
― Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“Maybe the simple diagnosis of either hetero or homo is misleading. Maybe there’s just sexuality, and it’s bendable and unpredictable, like a circus performer,”
― Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“When one dream burns to ash, you don't crumble beneath it. You get on your hands and knees, and you sift through those ashes until you find the very last ember, the very last spark. Then you breathe. You breathe. You fucking breathe. And you make a new fire.”
― Sarah Ockler, The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

“So the very instant we create a superintelligence we lose control, is that right?” “The risk is that everything we know about the world will cease to be relevant, and it’ll be the end of human existence.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility of me, but I quickly banished the notion. It was that kind of thinking that landed me in this situation to begin with. Hope can ruin you.”
― Perry Moore, Hero

“When I was Turtle’s age I had never had anyone or anything important taken from me. I still hadn’t. Maybe I hadn’t started out with a whole lot, but pretty nearly all of it was still with me.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

“Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“It seemed like the times when we were silent were some of the easiest.”
― Kiera Cass, The Heir

“Maybe lots of people go through life never knowing they’re peculiar.”
― Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

“I tried to show him that he was the answer to a question I hadn’t even known I had been asking.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You