Quotes - Mandy (mandyannecurtis) (Cary, NC) Showing 1-30 of 33

#1

“I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

tags: metaphor, punctuation

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#1

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books

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#2

“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: books, magic, universe

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#4

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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#5

“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
― Henry James

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#6

“It's time to start living the life you've imagined.”
― Henry James

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#7

“I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”
― Henry James

tags: integrity, self-esteem

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#8

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

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#9

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

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#10

“There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.”
― Ann Rule

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#11

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

tags: friendship, literature

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#12

“We are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.”
― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts

tags: love

2089 likes

#13

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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#14

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: life, poetry

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#15

“And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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#16

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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#17

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren

tags: books, children, children-s-literature

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#18

“Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

tags: life

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#19

“The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.”
― Andre Maurois

tags: andre-maurois-books-reading

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#20

“To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

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#21

“Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.”
― Mae Jemison

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#22

“Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me.”
― Elif Shafak

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#23

“Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.”
― Christopher Paolini

tags: christopher, paolini

834 likes

#24

“Don't be afraid, child,
The stories are always there.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception

tags: stories

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#25

“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

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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#26

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

17573 likes

#27

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, children-s-books, reading

13380 likes

#28

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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#29

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
― Joseph Brodsky

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#30

“I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

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