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“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
― Carl Sagan

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?”
― Natalie Angier, The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

“The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Unexpected Blessings

“When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having.”
― Rachel Simmons, The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence

“Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.”
― Robert Southey

“It is my belief that books are living things.... And as living things, they need to be protected.”
― Holly Black

“The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.”
― Kelly Wearstler

“I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables.”
― Kara Walker

“The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself.”
― Molière

“There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.”
― Stendhal, Love

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire