“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“She delighted in the smell of the ink, the rough feel of the paper between her fingers, the rustle of sweet pages, the shapes of letters before her eyes.”
― Cynthia Hand, My Lady Jane

“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“She is catalyst.
She is chaos.
I can see why he loves her.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations if you live near him.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. “

-Karen Marie Moning

“As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill - as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

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

“And when he kissed me again, the seconds slowed. They stretched out and made more time. I felt his body against mine, unraveling everything else that was between us, and my soul unwound, threading itself to his. And I let it. I gave myself to him. Because I was already his.”
― Adrienne Young, Sky in the Deep

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

“I am always surprised to discover that when the world seems darkest, there exists the greatest opportunity for light.”

― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“There is no greater power on this earth than story.  People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense—words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions—words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History.”

― Libba Bray, The Diviners