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  • #1
    Jack Gantos
    “Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.”
    Jack Gantos, Hole in My Life

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #3
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #4
    Khaled Hosseini
    “When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #5
    Carol Rifka Brunt
    “That's the secret. If you always make sure you're exactly the person you hoped to be, if you always make sure you know only the very best people, then you won't care if you die tomorrow.”
    Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

  • #6
    Khaled Hosseini
    “They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.”
    Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

  • #7
    Alan Bennett
    “What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
    Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

  • #8
    Confucius
    “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
    Confucius

  • #9
    Umberto Eco
    “We live for books.”
    Umberto Eco

  • #10
    Kristin Hannah
    “If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
    Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

  • #11
    Hyeonseo Lee
    “Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe. I will never truly be free of its gravity, no matter how far I journey.”
    Hyeonseo Lee

  • #12
    Alan Paton
    “It was not his habit to dwell on what might have been but what could never be.”
    Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country



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