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  • #1
    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #2
    Stephen        King
    “She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.”
    Stephen King, Under the Dome

  • #3
    Marilyn Monroe
    “I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #4
    Marilyn Monroe
    “The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #5
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #6
    H.G. Wells
    “It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.”
    H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

  • #7
    Markus Zusak
    “The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #8
    Ray Bradbury
    “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #9
    Lewis Carroll
    “If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #10
    Douglas Adams
    “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
    Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

  • #11
    George Orwell
    “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #12
    Charles Dickens
    “Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”
    Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

  • #13
    L. Frank Baum
    “True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid...”
    L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

  • #14
    Richard  Adams
    “We all have to meet our match sometime or other.”
    Richard Adams, Watership Down

  • #15
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow�”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #16
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #17
    Cormac McCarthy
    “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
    Cormac McCarthy, The Road

  • #18
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #19
    David Levithan
    “What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.”
    David Levithan, Love Is the Higher Law

  • #20
    Salman Rushdie
    “How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”
    Salman Rushdie, Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002

  • #21
    Sebastien de Castell
    “When you're fighting a crowd, it's good to shout potentially threatening things like "Crossbows!" or "Fire!" or "Giant Flying Cat!" every once in a while.”
    Sebastien de Castell, Traitor's Blade

  • #22
    Charlotte Brontë
    I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #23
    Nicola Yoon
    “You're not living if you're not regretting.”
    Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

  • #24
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #25
    Alice Walker
    “Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”
    Alice Walker, The Color Purple
    tags: time

  • #26
    Neil Gaiman
    “Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #27
    Betty  Smith
    “If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful. But because there are so many, you just can't see how beautiful it really is.”
    Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  • #28
    Eugène Ionesco
    “I'd rather lay an egg in a box than go and steal an ox.”
    Eugène Ionesco, The Bald Soprano: & Other Plays

  • #29
    Richard P. Feynman
    “The first person you should be careful not to fool is yourself. Because you are the easiest person to fool".”
    Richard Feynman

  • #30
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone



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