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#1

“This isn't just a story. This is...a way to understand the world, passed down from person to person, and changing each one on the way. It's the smell, the touch. Books are art that talks to us.”
― Toni Jordan, The Fragments

tags: book-lover-wisdom, book-lovers, book-lovers-quotes

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#2

“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

tags: fantasy, fear, kvothe, man-s, name, patrick-rothfuss, wind, wise

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#3

“It's the loneliest people who love books the most...it was the opposite of loneliness, too, like there were too many people around me, forced connections, that I needed a little isolation to think on my own, to be my own person.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, introverts

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#4

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

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#5

“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: death, life

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#6

“God does not change, but He uses change—to change us. He sends us on journeys that bring us to the end of ourselves. We often feel out of control, yet if we embrace His leading, we may find ourselves on the ride of our lives.”
― Jen Hatmaker, Interrupted: An Adventure in Relearning the Essentials of Faith

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#7

“Just one more moment. Just give us one more. But maybe her heart would never be satisfied; maybe it was ever-enlarging in its want for me. Because she knew that if she were granted one more moment, then another one was what she would ask for. She could live around her son for a hundred years and even then, when it was time to part, she would think - but it has been too brief.”
― Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us

tags: family-relationships, love, motherhood

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#8

“God can take what Satan meant for shame and use it for His glory. Just when we think we've messed up so badly that our lives are nothing but heaps of ashes, God pours His living water over us and mixes the ashes into clay. He then takes this clay and molds it into a vessel of beauty. After He fills us with His overflowing love, He can use us to pour His love into the hurting lives of others.”
― Lysa TerKeurst

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#9

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: food, happiness

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#10

“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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#11

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

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#12

“To spend her days reading and growing things. Could there be any better life?”
― Toni Jordan, The Fragments

tags: book-lovers-quotes

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#13

“Only a mind steeped in true love can write irony. The others write satire.”
― James A. Michener, Hawaii

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#14

“It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.”
― Agatha Christie, The Clocks

tags: books, bookstore

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#15

“Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"

An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: banter

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#16

“Books are time travel and space travel and mood-altering drugs. They are mind-melds and telepathy and past-life regression. How people can stand here and not sense the magic in them - it's inconceivable to her.”
― Toni Jordan, The Fragments

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, book-lovers-quotes

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#17

“I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that’s odd, isn’t it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that?”
― David Foster Wallace, The Broom of the System

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#18

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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#19

“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

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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#20

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

tags: books, thought

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#21

“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

tags: books

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#22

“The pain. It's worth it. The more you love, the more it hurts. It's the only thing that is.”
― Amy Harmon, Where the Lost Wander

tags: inspirational, love, once-upon-a-book-club, quote-cards

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#23

“You cannot prevent Darkness from touching the lives of others. Everyone must find a way to do that for themselves, no matter what type of creature they are.”
― Deborah Harkness;

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#24

“All the wrongness in her world had been extinguished by the rightness of whatever this was between them. It was a hazardous alchemy.”
― Mimi Matthews, Rules for Ruin

tags: historical-romance, rivals-to-lovers

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