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“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something.”

― The Once and Future King

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― The Mistborn trilogy

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— Six of Crows

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— HP and the Deathly Hallows

“This, I say. This and this. The way his hair looked in summer sun. His face when he ran. His eyes, solemn as an owl at lessons. This and this and this. So many moments of happiness, crowding forward.”

― The Song of Achilles

“Stories are wild creatures,” the monster said. “When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”

— A Monster Calls

“A word of friendly advice could have saved him, but dear me, I was too busy watching him unravel to think of it until it was far too late.”

― The Bartimaeus Trilogy

“I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”

— The Chosen

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— Son of a Witch

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— Heartless

“Then he closed his eyes and he began to dream.”

— The Raven King

“God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.”

― The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

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— The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”

— Circe

“All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost. The old that is strong does not wither. Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”

— The Lord of the Rings

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”

― The Shadow of the Wind

“A man must sometimes be forced to make choices, for it is only by his choices that we know what a man truly is.”

― The Promise

“Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.”

— The Thief Lord

“The destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing, you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.”

― The Once and Future King

“Books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside of them.”

― Inkheart

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— Aristotle and Dante

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— The Bartimaeus trilogy

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― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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— The Shadow of the Wind

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― The Bear and the Nightingale

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— The Girl in the Tower

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— The Winter of the Witch

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– Aristotle and Dante

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— Shadow of the Wind

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— Circe

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— The Night Circus

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― The House of the Scorpion

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— Ptolemy’s Gate

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― Murder on the Orient Express

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— The Giver

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— The Well of Ascension

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— We, The Drowned

“Morgaine,” Arthur whispered. His eyes were bewildered and full of pain. “Morgaine, was it all for nothing then, what we did, and all that we tried to do? Why did we fail?”

— The Mists of Avalon

“I hope your bacon burns,” Calcifer said, muffled under the pan.”

— Howl’s Moving Castle

“And soon they were rolling on again, leaving Treegap behind, and as they went, the tinkling little melody of a music box drifted out behind them and was lost at last far down the road.”

— Tuck Everlasting

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