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“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

“The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.”
― Lesley Conger

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

“I wanted to live among books.”
― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
― Aristotle

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

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.”
― Samuel Butler

“I have a theory about pink pastry boxes. So much joy comes from those boxes. When someone walks into a room with a pink pastry box, joy immediately fills the room. World peace? Three words. Pink pastry box. I get a big cup of coffee and finalize my plans for world domination.”
― Liza Palmer

“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”
― Serena B. Miller

“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“The time to make up your mind about people, is never.”
― Philip Barry, The Philadelphia Story: A Comedy in Three Acts

“There is more to a soul than what others see”
― Colleen Coble, Fire Dancer

“He released her with obvious reluctance and shoved open his door, then came around to open her door. His chivalry brought an even broader smile. "Bet this doesn't last long", she teased. He took her hand. "You keep waiting for me to open it, and I will keep coming around.”
― Colleen Coble, Lonestar Homecoming

“When you love someone, you expect them to love you back the same way - with a singleness of heart.”
― Colleen Coble, Fire Dancer

“If you can't see the bright side, why ya just need to polish the dull one.”
― Shelley Shepard Gray, Winter's Awakening

“Don't worry so. Regret will only make you lose sleep, not solve the problem.”
― Shelley Shepard Gray, Grace

“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
― Wilkie Collins, Armadale

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or endeavor you've ever concocted, can be stripped from you in an instant. Sooner or later, it will happen. So prepare yourself. Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is indestructible.”
― Jonathan Evison, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving

“I'll take crazy over stupid any day.”
― Joss Whedon

“Home is the place I can live with myself, without hating myself.”
― Peggy Lampman, Simmer and Smoke: A Southern Tale of Grit and Spice