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  • #1
    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    Joseph Brodsky

  • #2
    Alice Walker
    “The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something.
    What can she become? I asked.
    Why, she said, the mother of his children.
    But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.”
    Alice Walker, The Color Purple

  • #3
    Gary Paulsen
    “I read like a wolf eats.
    I read myself to sleep every night.”
    Gary Paulsen

  • #4
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #6
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #9
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

  • #10
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #11
    J.K. Rowling
    “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

  • #12
    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #13
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    Allen Saunders

  • #14
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #15
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #16
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #17
    Thomas Babington Macaulay
    “What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
    Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Selected Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay

  • #18
    George Bernard Shaw
    “You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
    George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

  • #19
    Greg Behrendt
    “Busy' is another word for 'asshole'. 'Asshole' is another word for the guy you're dating.”
    Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

  • #20
    Stephen  King
    “The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. It’s hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.”
    Stephen King, Different Seasons

  • #21
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Tremble and fear, all enemies!” he shouted. “For we shall shake the air with thunder and blood! Your doom is imminent!”
    Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

  • #22
    Mateo Askaripour
    “It’s the duty of every man and woman who has achieved some success in life to pass it on, because when we’re gone, what matters most isn’t what we were able to attain but who we were able to help.”
    Mateo Askaripour, Black Buck

  • #23
    Elin Hilderbrand
    “Weather is a physical manifestation of the earth’s power.”
    Elin Hilderbrand, Winter Storms

  • #24
    Elin Hilderbrand
    “You need to choose bravery over shame,” Leanne says. “Humility over pride.”
    Elin Hilderbrand, Winter Solstice

  • #25
    Michelle Obama
    “Go forth with a spoonful of fear and return with a wagonful of competence.”
    Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

  • #26
    Michelle Obama
    “I often say that it’s much harder to hate up close.”
    Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

  • #27
    “Some people wanted to freeze me on All That because it was the best times of their lives.”
    Kenan Thompson, When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown – A Hilarious Memoir on Fatherhood and Positivity from an SNL Icon

  • #28
    Kristin Hannah
    “It is a strange world we are all in. Volatile and uncertain. We—Americans, I mean—can’t seem to talk to each other anymore, our disagreements seem insurmountable.”
    Kristin Hannah, The Women

  • #29
    Emily Henry
    “It’s a library, Daphne. If you can’t be a human here, where can you?”
    Emily Henry, Funny Story

  • #30
    Emily Henry
    “Trust people’s actions, not their words. Don’t love anyone who isn’t ready to love you back. Let go of the people who don’t hold on to you. Don’t wait on anyone who’s in no rush to get to you.”
    Emily Henry, Funny Story

  • #31
    Emily Henry
    “And feeling like it belonged to me in a way, and I to it. A home, when nowhere else felt right.”
    Emily Henry, Funny Story



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