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    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: fate, humor, simile
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    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    ― Sir Francis Bacon
    tags: books, reading
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: albus-dumbledore, courage, friends
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    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    Gail Carson Levine
    “A library is infinity under a roof.”
    ― Gail Carson Levine
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    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
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    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
    tags: dreams, life
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore
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    J.K. Rowling
    “The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: truth
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
    "Yes," said Harry stiffly.
    "Yes, sir."
    "There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."
    The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    tags: humor, rebellion, sarcasm
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.
    Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git.
    Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.
    Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: harry-potter, humor, james-potter, remus-lupin, sirius-black, snape, wormtail
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    Gail Carson Levine
    “I wished she’d never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.”
    ― Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted
    tags: embrace, hugging
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
    tags: humor
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    Groucho Marx
    “I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.”
    ― Groucho Marx, Groucho and Me
    tags: clique, clubs, humor, membership
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    Shannon Hale
    “I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.”
    ― Shannon Hale
    tags: laughing
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    Shannon Hale
    “Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.”
    ― Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days
    tags: understanding-others, wisdom
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    Lemony Snicket
    “It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
    tags: inkheart
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
    tags: inspirational
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
    tags: books, feelings, reading, thoughts
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    Cornelia Funke
    “If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
    tags: books
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    Cornelia Funke
    “When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”
    ― Cornelia Funke
    tags: books, character, cornelia-funke, existentialism, words, writers, writing
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    Cornelia Funke
    “The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books in the kitchen and books in the lavatory. Books on the TV set and in the closet, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new. They welcomed Meggie down to breakfast with invitingly opened pages; they kept boredom at bay when the weather was bad. And sometimes you fall over them.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
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    Cornelia Funke
    “a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
    tags: dragons-rock
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  • #30
    Cornelia Funke
    “A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath
    tags: on-reading
    211 likes



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