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“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”
― Tracy Chevalier

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“What are you going to do with your life?" In one way or another it seemed that people had been asking her this forever; teachers, her parents, friends at three in the morning, but the question had never seemed this pressing and still she was no nearer an answer... "Live each day as if it's your last', that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“And then she frowned, and shook her head, then put her arms around him once more, pressing her face into his shoulder, making a noise that sounded almost like rage.
'What's up?' he asked.
'Nothing. Oh, nothing. Just...' She looked up at him. 'I thought I'd finally got rid of you.'
'I don't think you can.' he said”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“You know what I can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, I mean endlessly, I've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it? why do you think people say that stuff, Em? Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice about you?”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
― Dale Carnegie

“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead?”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
― Sharon Olds

“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
― J.G. Ballard

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands

“One day in the country
Is worth a month in town”
― Christina Rossetti

“We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”
― Joni Mitchell

“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
― Eleanor Hodgman Porter

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
― Christopher Paolini

“I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.”
― Amy Hempel

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
― Selma Lagerlöf

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers