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“You should be out stirring up trouble with your friends, not bothering with all them books you read. You know it's them books what make you talk funny.”
― Lauren Myracle, Shine

“It's not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won't come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all.”
― Carolyn Parkhurst, The Dogs of Babel

“But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.”
― Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman

“Hello, Tatiana. I'm Alexander. Have we met before?”
― Paullina Simons

“Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow”
― Megan McCafferty, Perfect Fifths

“What I want now is what I've always wanted.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“Last night. I couldn't put that book down. I was awake till four this morning finishing it. I didn't know reading could be like that, I had no idea.”
― Jill Mansell, An Offer You Can't Refuse

“If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got.”
― Beth Ann Bauman, Rosie and Skate

“My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“Ruby: ...What's so good about being 20? I call them the materialist years. The years we get distracted by all the bullshit. Then we cop on when we hit our 30s and spend those years trying to make up for the 20s. But your 40s? Those years are for enjoying it.

Rosie: Hmmm good point. What are the 50s for?

Ruby: Fixing what you fucked up in your 40s.

Rosie: Great. Looking forward to it.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

“You're tearin' my guts out, Claire.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead as a Doornail