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A king should first gain the confidence of the foe and when he has gained it should spring on him like a wolf. The foe should be struck down so effectively that he may never agin raise his head. The foe should be slain by the arts of conciliation, expenditure of money, creating disunion among his allies or by employment of force. Indeed every means in the king’s power should be used to destroy the foe. The king should never strike in ignorance but having slain his foe should never indulge in sorrow. The king should speak with soft words before he smites and even as he is smiting. Grieve for the victim after he is down.
— Meera Uberoi, Leadership Secrets From The Mahabharata
The king should act with promptitude, for without promptitude of action mere destiny never accomplishes the objects cherished by kings. The question for whether it is the king that makes the age or the age that makes the king, the king should entertain no doubt. It is the king that makes the age.
— Meera Uberoi, Leadership Secrets From The Mahabharata
It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.
— Eiji Yoshikawa, Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan
But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere.""'They?' Who are 'they?'""I don't know. Just people.""That's what the victorious claim, not the defeated; the powerful, not the powerless. 'All is fair.' 'The end justifies the means.' Is that what you believe?
— John Connolly, The Infernals
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
— Bo Jackson
It’s true that the hatred is still there. But it doesn’t change anything. Our obligations are the same—to live and sanctify all life with our own. To participate in the world the best we know how, leaving it a better place than we found it. To raise families and teach our children to value life. What more can we do? Should we refuse to live because of the threat of death hanging over us? We’ve always been under sentence of death. Every generation that lives out its days in peace is a victory. Every day we live is a victory.
— Ovadya ben Malka, A Damaged Mirror
There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeated and humiliated people. Another place to guard and defend and fear.
— Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
In a victory speech, I always like to thank the opposition, because without their help and stupidity, I couldn’t have won.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.
— Vālmīki
Happiness is not the victory, success or accomplishment; it is what happens at the end of the day?
— M.F. Moonzajer
Peace is possible for dead bodies, living bodies can not expect peace on the way to the victory.
— Amit Kalantri
The ordeal is not that truth does not win
—  it is that it wins in the end.
Each year the winning team of the Super Bowl loses some ground (yardage) throughout the game. Yet they always keep their minds fixed on the goal, push through the opposition, and, as a result, advance to victory in the end.
— Lisa Morrone, Overcoming Overeating: It's Not What You Eat, It's What's Eating You!
Draw from the unbeatable courage and love of Christ--don't stop short
—  He didn't.
Life is an illusionist, proficient at its art.It proves to be bitter, an adversaryBut is indeed a friend in disguise, a silent well wisher.It forces us into arduous stations and assesses our limitations.It guides us to the path of defeat, even so secretly desires that we prove it wrong,It demands for us to rise despite the odds and lead it to, the path of victory.It is but a master illusionist.
— Chirag Tulsiani
It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.
— Mark  Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
God save me from another such victory.
— Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory
They dig holes from time to time,' the Colonel explains. 'It is probably for them what chess is for me. It has no special meaning, does not transport them anywhere. All of us dig at our own pure holes. We have nothing to achieve by our activities, nowhere to get to. Is there not something marvelous about this? We hurt no one and no one gets hurt. No victory, no defeat.
— Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
I am not a person who goes in the side of the many, because I prefer the side of the victor.
— Kenneth de Guzman
Stripping her of her name had been almost as satisfying as removing her dress.
— Ania Szado, Studio Saint-ex
I know God love me, because my enemies don’t triumph over me.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Victory is a good wine
—  defeat is a good university!
Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.
— Pindar, Odes for Victorious Athletes
A victory which is not honourable is nothing but a defeat!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A victory with so many victims is nothing but the biggest defeat!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
To help someone, or make them feel special; all it needs is to offer the tools which are thrust, and guidance, and show that you believe in the persons potential. The product is musical notes floating everywhere.”Katia M. S.
— Katia M. S.
You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'll remember those who fell, and we'll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We'll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through.
— Robert Jordan, A Memory of Light
Today is yesterday's victory, yesterday is tomorrow's conquest, and tomorrow is today's war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome.
— Nadège Richards, Burning Bridges
Fear is the most insidious of weaknesses. You must learn to raze it from your soul, or risk defeat in all you do.
— Courtney Schafer, The Tainted City
I address the trophy and the warped reflection: All the pain and suffering you've caused me.
— Andre Agassi, Open
The sweetest victory is that won when everyone counted you out because they believe you can not make it.
— N. K. David
It appears to me that one defeats God precisely by not trying to stand above God, but on the contrary by using God's own existence against God.
— Lionel Suggs
There are many paths to victory
—  choose the shortest one! There are many paths to defeat
It might be added, too, that it takes something more than preponderance of numbers to win a battle....
— Burton E. Stevenson, American Men of Action
They had gathered at Eastcheap to wait. At this time of day, the marketplace ought to have been thronged with people looking for bargains, moving from stall to stall, examining the fresh fish, choosing the plumpest hens, buying candles and pepper and needles. The stalls were open, but the fishmongers and cordwainers and butchers were doing no business, despite the growing crowd. The sun was hot, flies were thick, and the odors pungent; no one complained, though. They talked and gossiped among themselves, strangers soon becoming friends, for the normally fractious and outspoken Londoners had forgotten their differences, at least for a day, united in a common purpose and determined to revel in their triumph, for they were pragmatic enough to understand this might be their only one. Now they joked and swapped rumors and waited with uncommon patience, and at last they heard a cry, swiftly picked up and echoed across the marketplace: “She is coming!
— Sharon Kay Penman, When Christ and His Saints Slept
No one can hold you to a decision made in the middle of the night.
— Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
When you trust, you are tender and delicate, but when you doubt, you are dangerous and destructive
— Anaïs Nin, The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
Get this under control as soon as you can young lady, because no one here gives a damn about your unlimited power-Mason Lerner
— Natasha Larry
Emma is just a distraction. A shiny new toy that I can’t have, so I want her. Fuck, do I ever want her." - William Honor (Honor Thy Teacher)
— Teresa Mummert
In afew hours, she’ll see Anna for herself. She’ll seeher dressed in blood, her hair floating like it’ssuspended in water, eyes black and shining. Andwhen she does, she won’t be able to catch herbreath.
— Kendare Blake, Girl of Nightmares
Well, my mother did teach me a killer family recipe for a Bloody Mary. I guess I can make that next Thanksgiving-Haylee Mitchell
— Natasha Larry
Spiritual assets make us more resilient to the trauma and difficult experiences life inevitably throws at us.Since spiritual assets bring us closer to our Higher Power, we do not face the difficulties alone, and we may find a greater purpose and meaning within the stress & trauma. When we lean on our spiritual assets to get us through, the traumatic event becomes less destructive. Instead, it becomes transformative; we see the difficulties in a new light.
— Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress
If I do decide to have a Girl's Gone Wild moment, I want it to be with some hot young thing, not a senior citizen-Jaycie Lerner
— Natasha Larry
You're going on birth control...or I will smash your truck-Allison Young
— Natasha Larry
Don’t make me angry-kiss you
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
The more you read the more places you will go,the more places you go the more things you will learn.
— Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!
Write it down now! You may never know who will read it tomorrow!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
You are a book being read every moment, By someone or the other, Though only in parts! But, you are extremely safe, Rather, unfortunate For no one has ever read the entire book!
— Lukhman Pambra
Everyone has honour and a good name. It is the only sacred thing that every person has.
— Viktor Shel, Why He Betrayed Jesus
What exactly is it you'd like to know? [the book store manager asked]. He had an odd expression, like he was asking her a trick question. [Katherine] thought a minute. What DID she want to know? Why had she taken the trouble to come out in the cold to learn about a woman she'd never heard of until yesterday? She had that feeling she got when she was doing her art and suddenly discovered the missing piece that ties everything together: a tingling in the back of her neck, a crazy buzzed-rush of a feeling that spread through her whole body. She didn't understand the role that Sara Harrison Shea, the ring Gary had given her, or the book he had hidden would play, but she knew that this was important, and that she had to give herself over to it and see where it might lead.
— Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People
You are a great deal of trouble, Jace herondale. “So I’ve been told” jace said
— Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
Who says books aren't 'real' friends? We hug them, treasure them, relate to them, spend weekends with them, and bring them along on vacation! They give us escape, comfort, adventures, advice, hope, inspiration, role models, and something to look forward to after a hard day. What more could you ask for from a friend?
— A.J. Sky
I have a million things to talk to you about. A million things we have to talk about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
A book can become your best companion in times of crisis.Not only do you learn in the journey of your pages, but rediscover yourself, with your virtues and defects ... often makes you question everything, even life itself.The books are fantastic, as they not only transport you to other places and the awakening of sensations, curiosity, laughter, hilarity, sadness, etc. Other times, it can give you a quiet space in truculent moments, and lead you to a level of peace, acceptance, healthy optimism, that I will never tire of recommending it.Never stop reading, there are no excuses ... there are always some minutes in any place, at any time and a huge universe for all tastes !!!
— Liz Hay
What’s in an Orange?Cuba has encouraged foreign investments in agriculture. The Cuban citrus industry was started during the 1960’s to supply the former Soviet Union, as well as other socialist countries in Eastern Europe, with oranges and grapefruit. After the economic crash and the restructuring of the Soviet Union, the demand for citrus crops fell off by about half. In 1994, the National Citrus Corporation was founded in Cuba, and is now known as the “Fruit Trees Enterprise Group.” It consists of 13 nationally owned citrus enterprises, a commercial company and 4 processing plants. Cítricos Caribe S.A. has three cold storage facilities and exports to contracted foreign vendors. A Chilean venture and a Greek-British consortium, both affected by the decline of demand, halted their operations in 2014. However an Israel company has successfully developed huge citrus and tropical fruit plantations on the island, with most of their crops being sold in Europe. Israeli orange groves stretch for miles in the Matanzas Province, east of Havana. The province known chiefly for its white sandy beaches and resorts also has the massive BM Corporation, based in Tel Aviv, operating huge citrus groves and one of its packinghouses there. Its modern processing factory is located in the middle of 115,000 acres of groves. It is known as the world’s largest citrus operation.Read the award winning bock that is at all the US Military Academies,
— Hank Bracker
From the third case, she took yet more books, but these were the traveling books that she had brought for her new ward: they were at once sterner and more reassuring that the others. She cared for for these, too- they were books after all, and she would sooner have her own spine broken than manhandle a book - but not with the same devotion, and they were placed in a neat pile on the floor.
— Wesley Stace, Misfortune
He has the etiquette of a frog
— J Lea Richardson
(Kate) had found multiple titles by individual authors scattered willy-nilly through the collection. It made her want to pull her hair out. Obviously!- an individual author's body of work all belonged on one shelf, the works arranged, in turn, by whatever system was most suitable: by volume number, alphabetically by title, or by the year of publication, or, in case of playwrights, works grouped by genre- tragedies with tragedies, comedies with comedies, histories with histories, and so on.
— Gaelen Foley, My Dangerous Duke
Once upon a time, you dragged a part of me into the world of the dead, and now Naoko has dragged another pat of me into that world.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Everything seems pointless since you left
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Too many memories of her were crammed inside of me, and as soon as one of them found the slightest opening, the rest would force their way out in an endless stream, an unstoppable flood.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
I think of you now mare than ever. It's raining today.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Not everybody is looking for a boyfriend with a sports car.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
I look around me sometimes and I get sick to my stomach. Why the hell don't these bastards do something? I wonder. They don't do a damn thing, and then they bitch.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
I had thought about it so often - too often, to the point where it had distorted my sense of time.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Here I was, seeing you almost every week, and talking with you, and knowing that the only one in your heart was Kizuki. It hurt. It really hurt. And I think that's why I slept with girls I didn't know.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
You want to know why you felt that way about me even though you didn't love me.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
There was much about him that was fine and beautiful, but he could never find the confidence he needed.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
I went on loving him just the same, and I could never be interested in anyone else.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
No, it's not sick. I wish I could be the one to hold you, though, I said. So hold me. Now. Right here.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
I miss you something awful sometimes
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
It's hard not being able to see you, but my life in Tokyo would be a lot worse if it weren't for you.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
If you think about it, an unfair society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Maybe so, but I'm not just looking up at the sky and waiting for the fruit to drop. In my own way, I'm working hard. I'm working ten times harder than you are.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
In any case, though, I believe that I have not been fair to you and that, as a result, I must have led you around in circles and hurt you deeply.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
It was that kind of kiss. But as with all kisses, it was not without a certain element of danger
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Because sometimes I have a need for human warmth, I answered honestly.  Sometimes, if I can't feel something like the warmth of a woman's skin, I get so lonely I can't stand it.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
I could never tell what was going on inside the pretty heads of the girls that Naoko brought along, and they probably couldn't understand me, either.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
No, we weren't lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even more deeply than lovers do. The thought caused me a good deal of grief. What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for - and to do it so unconsciously.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
One thing became crystal clear to me when I couldn't see you anymore. I realized that the only way I had been able to survive until then was having you in my life. When I lost you, the pain and loneliness really got to me.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
I loved Midori. And I had probably known as much for a while. I had just been avoiding the conclusion for a very long time.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
I still loved Naoko. Bent and twisted as that love might be, I did love her. Somewhere inside me, there was still preserved a broad, open space, untouched, for Naoko and no one else.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
I have always loved Naoko, and I still loved her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists between Midori and me.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have for happiness where you find it, and not worry too much about other people. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a lifetime, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
I'd swallow some whiskey and listen to the waves while I thought about Naoko. It was too strange to think that she was dead and no longer part of this world. I couldn't absorb the truth of it. I couldn't believe it. I had heard the nails being driven into the lid of her coffin, but I still couldn't adjust to the fact that she had returned to nothingness.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me know whether or not I hurt you
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
I suddenly thought about my old girlfriend, the one I had first slept with in my third year of high school. Chills ran through me as I realized how badly I had treated her. I had hardly ever thought about her thoughts or feelings or the pain I had caused her. She was such a sweet and gentle thing, but at the time I had taken her sweetness for granted and later hardly gave her a second thought. What was she doing now? I wondered. And had she forgiven me?
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
I thought about Kizuki. "So you finally made Naoko yours," I heard myself telling him. Oh, well, she was yours to begin with. Now maybe, she's where she belongs. But in this world, in this imperfect world of the living, I did the best I could for Naoko.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Some days are about preparation, but some are pure inspiration.
— Colleen Mariotti, Livology: A Global Guide to a Deliberate Life
I straightened up and looked out the plane window at the dark clouds hanging over the North Sea, thinking of what I had lost in the course of my life: times gone forever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
I know, too, why she asked me not to forget her. Naoko herself knew, of course. She knew that my memories of her would fade. Which is precisely why she begged me never to forget her, to remember that she had existed. The thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow. Because Naoko never loved me.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
We're all broken, but thats how the light shines through.
— Mira Monroe, Magick
Some books you read and savor. Some, you carry close to your heart.
— S.R. McKade
No matter where you hide your emotions, a good book brings it out.
— Maniparna Sengupta Majumder
A book is not complete until it’s read
— E.L. Doctorow
Whenever you feel like criticzing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven´t had the advantages that you've had.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Life Is to short to read book I am not enjoying
— Melissa Marr
And we'll let the world dance around us while you lie here in my arms. The beat of your heart is all the music I need to hear. I spent my whole life searching for this melody, so I'll listen while I hold you near.
— Courtney Giardina, Behind the Strings
We could all have been killed -or worse, expelled.
— J.K. Rowling, 해리 포터와 마법사의 돌 2
You have the power to create your own destiny. You just need to decide what you want and how badly you want it.
— S.A. Healey, Empty Me Out
He was like the Great Santini of the Strand. Few people could take him on; he was so well-read and had a memory that could retain every detail of everything he'd ever read, as well as jokes, lyrics, arias, names of store owners he'd met on his honeymoon in Paris, names of restaurants where gangsters were gunned down in 1924. He could quote lines from books he disliked better than you could quote lines from what you claimed was your favorite book of all time.
— Jeanne Darst, Fiction Ruined My Family
It is not enough to read many books, you have to read the right ones.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Books record knowledge,preserve wisdom,and disseminate information;nourishing minds, changing lives.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A fool can read a thousand books and learn nothing.A wise person can read one and become great. Using books for decoration is what ordinary men do. Using books for knowledge is what intelligent people do.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Why books?”Her brows rose. “I beg your pardon?”“Why are they your vice?”She set her plate down and wiped her hand on her skirts before reaching for the top volume on a stack of small, leather bound books nearby and extending it to him. “Go on.”He took it. “Now what?”“Smell it.” He tilted his head. She couldn’t help but smile. “Do it.”He lifted it to his nose. Inhaled.“Not like that,” she said. “Really give it a smell.”He raised one brow but did as he was told. “What do you smell?” Sophie asked.“Leather and ink?”She shook her head. “Happiness. That’s what books smells like. Happiness. That’s why I always wanted to have a book shop. What better life than to trade in happiness?
— Sarah MacLean, The Rogue Not Taken
My life changes all the time, but books don't change. My reading of them changes-- I can bring new things to them each time. But the words are familiar words. The world is a place you've been before, and it welcomes you back.
— David Levithan, Another Day
A book is the only true land of the free: within its borders, anything is possible
— Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock
Books are companions
—  choose your companions wisely.
A good book is a man's best friend. It never leaves you even in your darkest hour.
— Sophany Thay
Guns arm for violence
— books arm for life.
A book is a writer's will:ideas are the inheritance.
— Matshona Dhiliwayo
Good books teach you about others
— great books teach you about yourself.
Pills for sickness
— books for ignorance.
Books have more useful things to say than fools.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A teacher instructs;a student absorbs.A book is a companion;a good one, a messiah.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I love a book which never ends in my head, even though- a thousand times, it has been read!
— Mansi Tejpal
What sort of a book would you like to read next?" she asked.
— Roald Dahl
Money. It fits around your neck like some permanent noose. always waiting for your next misstep.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
Love?” Michael smiled down at his hands. “Love, real love, is being seen. Being known. Knowing the ugliest part of someone, and loving them anyway. And . . . I guess I think two people in love become something else, something more than the sum of their parts, you know? That it must be like you’re creating a new world that exists just for the two of you. You’re gods of your own pocket universe.” He laughed a little then, as if he felt foolish. “That must sound ridiculous.” “No,” Robert said, the truth dawning over him. Michael didn’t talk like someone who was guessing—he talked like someone who knew.
— Cassandra Clare
He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Books are more to treasure than cars.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
None of us are meant to be or do anything. We decide what we're going to be.
— Richelle Mead, The Golden Lily
Summer, dropping so easily a delicious everything upon your skin and lips. Like a never-ending kiss - taunting, deep, and luscious.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
The Number One Rule of Working Is: DO THE BEST WORK YOU CAN. Why do anything but your best? What's the point?
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
Do you have to pay to be Jewish? Do you need a licence?
— Markus Zusak
There has to be something we can do to undo whatever it is we have done.
— Ellen Mead, Coven and the Magic's Maze
The best gift you can give me is a book.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I want to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving
—  the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.
Crime isn't pretty, only fashionably dressed.
— S.W. Frank, Amoroso
Walking into a bookshop is a depressing thing. It’s not the pretentious twats, browsing books as part of their desirable lifestyle. It’s not the scrubby members of staff serving at the counter: the pseudo-hippies and fucking misfits. It’s not the stink of coffee wafting out from somewhere in the building, a concession to the cult of the coffee bean. No, it’s the books. I could ignore the other shit, decide that maybe it didn’t matter too much, that when consumerism meets culture, the result is always going to attract wankers and everything that goes with them. But the books, no, they’re what make your stomach sink and that feeling of dark syrup on the brain descend. Look around you, look at the shelves upon shelves of books – for years, the vessels of all knowledge. We’re part of the new world now, but books persist. Cheap biographies, pulp fiction; glossy covers hiding inadequate sentiments. Walk in and you’re surrounded by this shit – to every side a reminder that we don’t want stimulation anymore, we want sedation. Fight your way through the celebrity memoirs, pornographic cook books, and cheap thrills that satisfy most and you get to the second wave of vomit-inducing product: offerings for the inspired and arty. Matte poetry books, classics, the finest culture can provide packaged and wedged into trendy coverings, kidding you that you’re buying a fashion accessory, not a book. But hey, if you can stomach a trip further into the shop, you hit on the meatier stuff – history, science, economics – provided they can stick ‘pop.’ in front of it, they’ll stock it. Pop. psychology, pop. art, pop. life. It’s the new world – we don’t want serious anymore, we want nuggets of almost-useful information. Books are the past, they’re on the out. Information is digital now; bookshops, they’re somewhere between gallery and museum.
— Matthew Selwyn, ****: The Anatomy of Melancholy
As I see it, you GET married - but you MAKE a marriage.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
Our lives aren't just measured in years. They're measured in the lives of people we touch around us
— Peeta Mellark
This just means so much to me!I'd like to thank all the little people I crushed on my way to the top
— Robin Benway, Also Known As
I wake up.Immediately I have to figure out who I am. It’s not just the body—opening my eyes and discovering whether the skin on my arm is light or dark, whether my hair is long or short, whether I’m fat or thin, boy or girl, scarred or smooth. The body is the easiest thing to adjust to, if you’re used to waking up in a new one each morning. It’s the life, the context of the body, that can be hard to grasp.Every day I am someone else. I am myself—I know I am myself—but I am also someone else.It has always been like this.
— David Levithan, Every Day
Two halves of the same whole.They cannot live together, yetcannot die apart.
— Jessica Verday, Of Monsters and Madness
And third my Dad doesn't like you.He won't tell me whybut he's a smart man.If he doesn't like you I cant likeyou,either.
— Alane Ferguson, The Christopher Killer
Teach them what you love to do in life. It really doesn't matter what it is. It never does. Just show them how important a passion is . . .
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
So, if the truest currency of life is time, then how do you get more time? Because if more is merrier, than having more time should make us more happier. Right? Therefore, all we have to ask ourselves is can we buy more time? . . .
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
And third my Dad doesn't like you.He won't tell me whybut he's a smart man.If he doesn't like you I can't likeyou,either.
— Alane Ferguson
Your bone shall remainYour flesh shall remain Your spirit shall remain
— Kat Beyer, The Demon Catchers of Milan
Every step towards Education is important , Just like every lighting lamp remove a bit of darkness from this world
— Tushar Upreti, The Days Of Childhood
So How Much of a THING or THINGS is Enough? And if you have EVERYTHING, have you achieved perfect HAPPINESS?
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
I am lost in the world of books. So many books to read.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be the same person- with or without money.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
The longest road to finding yourself is the one that begins at home, and ends at your home.
— Ian Ségal, Castling the Crowns
A great book is one, which really don’t finish when it finishes.
— Aman Jassal, Rainbow - the shades of love
Don't read a book to let the time pass...let the time pass to read a book.
— Nicholaa Spencer
Reading great books always gives me the worst sleeping disorders.
— Love The Stacks Bookstore
A library: Where we can shhhh people without offense.
— Love The Stacks Bookstore
Read to your children. Open their minds and fill them with imagination and wonder. Create Awesome by being awesome.
— Love The Stacks Bookstore
And go we all must, with a healthy lust of books we trust.
— Love The Stacks Bookstore
Books are the greatest treasure of wisdom and knowledge for mankind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Books, an addiction for the soul...
— Love The Stacks Bookstore
I have books in every corner of my house. 'Cleaning' my books is a pointless endeavor.
— Love The Stacks Bookstore
I don't even know what a room without books looks like.
— Love The Stacks Bookstore
Giving your friends the evil eye, as you attempt to convince them that they took you away from your book, and it was awesome.
— Love The Stacks Bookstore
The best way for children to learn grammar is by making them habitual readers.
— Love The Stacks Bookstore
I don't believe books have endings. Not the well written ones anyway...
— Love The Stacks Bookstore
I have a deep, abiding, infatuation for words, sentences, and stories.
— Love The Stacks Bookstore
Thinking about all the authors I love who wrote flawed books. You authors are such an enigma to me. Why do I love you so much?
— Love The Stacks Bookstore
Game... Set... Match Bitch! ~Alexandria Bell
— April Nichols Baker, Exposed Secrets
Few people know this, but I am a trained assassin, skilled in jujitsu and krav maga. I can also, with a few folds, turn an ordinary piece of notebook paper into a lethal weapon. Or I can turn it into a butterfly, which is a great trick when I'm babysitting."I fought a smile. "A trained assassin who babysits.""Only the Greene twins and only because their family gets every premium channel on the planet.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
Awesome . . .” Jared spoke up from the other side of the room. “Ember, the Otherworld's wonder mutt.
— Stacey Marie Brown, Fire in the Darkness
I don’t think I was strong in life. Now it seems like I loved every moment, thatevery breath was charmed and crisp.
— Kendare Blake, Anna Dressed in Blood
People need books for a better life. Books are a way of self-nurturing.
— Love The Stacks Bookstore
Wake up. Be thankful. For whatever happens on this day, you are endlessly given the chance to start again-to be alive. And all of us should wish for that.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
Love is the action verb of life, and of the heart.
— Chris Vonada, The Wellspring Of Life
The world is like a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
— Old Smell of Books
Not all books are created equally, but, all books are created.
— Love The Stacks Bookstore
The sight washed over me like a damn wave that you never see coming until it’s too late and you’re face down eating sand.
— Buffy Andrews, Gina and Mike
One day comes after another and another and pretty soon you realize that yesterday was pretty damn long ago and that everything you had hoped for is never going to happen. You can’t control it any more than you can control that big wave from getting stronger before it nails you. All you can do is prepare and hope that when it hits, you’ll survive.
— Buffy Andrews, Gina and Mike
What good is an “I LOVE YOU” If said only when you have to?What good is it to ride a horse if you cannot gallop?What good is it to believe in someone if you doubt your own belief?
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
From now until eternity meets its end, you will walk by faith and not by sight...
— Brian A. McBride, Paradox
Get up, and wipe your lip, Camille. It seems you are bleeding.
— Sai Marie Johnson, Simply Scarlet
Inez and I had been in the same book club for a while. She once told me that literary theory was reading without imagination, and I’ve loved her ever since.
— John Dufresne, No Regrets, Coyote
What good is an “I love you” if said only when you have to?
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
Everything begins by making your audience pay attention.
— Darin Bradley, Chimpanzee
I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
— Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book.
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The roller coaster is my life; Life is a fast, dizzying game. Life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances; falling over and getting up again. It's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and to feel angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it.But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from the "Best.
— Paulo Coelho
The Beatles.”“What about The Beatles?”“They nailed it.”“Nailed what?”“Everything.”“What do you mean?”Dev takes his arm and puts it right against mine, skin to skin, sweat on sweat, touch on touch. Then he glides his hand into mine and intertwines our fingers.“This,” he says. “This is why The Beatles got it.”“I’m afraid I’m not following…”“Other bands, it’s about sex. Or pain. Or some fantasy. But The Beatles, they knew what they were doing.You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?”“What?”‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have such a feeling that they can’t hide. Every single successful love song of the past fifty years can be traced back to ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ And every single successful love story has those unbearable and unbearably exciting moments of hand-holding.
— Rachel Cohn
I’d stare up at the sky, reminding myself that Caleb and I were both underneath it. That wherever he was, whatever he was doing, we would always share something.
— Anna Carey
Oh, hey, kettle, I’m pot and wow, you’re black.” - Owen
— Olivia Cunning, Tie Me
Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar.
— Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
Live then, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that, until the day God deigns to reveal the future to man, the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words; Wait and Hope.
— Lorenzo Carcaterra, Sleepers
We are different, my friend. We are visionaries. A monkey looks up and sees and banana, and that is as far as he looks. But a visionary looks up and sees the moon.
— Eoin Colfer
My words shall open the portal to thee.My words shall reveal for thy eyes to see.My words shall forewarn what is yet to be. To find the way you must follow your heart,Any other path shall tear us apart. From Eleventh Elementum
— J.L. Bond
The pimple is perfect.
— Buffy Andrews, Gina and Mike
I was just thinking that he might be willing. It’s not like he needs his semen.
— Buffy Andrews
I’ll pray for good semen. And I’ll get all of my friends to pray for good semen.
— Buffy Andrews, Gina and Mike
A great book remains eternally in one’s memory as today’s legend.
— Mayi Ngwala, Congo
You deserve good sperm. You’ve waited a long time.
— Buffy Andrews, Gina and Mike
Yes, I prosecute bastards like him, make them pay for what they did to innocent victims who can’t fight for themselves. And every time I win a case, I not only win for the victim, but also for me.
— Buffy Andrews, Gina and Mike
I dare us to give up – maybe we’ll reach nirvana by the time we’re sixty.
— J.E. Haldeman, Versions of Violence
We’re sick of hearing people say, “That band is so gay,” or “Those guys are fags.” Gay is not a synonym for shitty. If you wanna say something’s shitty, say it’s shitty. Stop being such homophobic assholes.
— Pete Wentz
It's astonishing the amount of time that certain straight people devote to gay sex - trying to determine what goes where and how often. They can't imagine any system outside their own, and seem obsessed with the idea of roles, both in bed and out of it. Who calls whom a bitch? Who cries harder when the cat dies? Which one spends the most time in the bathroom? I guess they think that it's that cut-and-dried, though of course it's not. Hugh might do the cooking, and actually wear an apron while he's at it, but he also chops the firewood, repairs the hot-water heater, and could tear off my arm with no more effort than it takes to uproot a dandelion.
— David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames
With ignorance comes fear- from fear comes bigotry. Education is the key to acceptance.
— Kathleen Patel, The Bullying Epidemic-the guide to arm you for the fight
I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.
— E.M. Forster, Maurice
My wife's the reason anything gets done, she nudges me towards promise by degrees. She is a perfect symphony of one our son is her most beautiful reprise. We chase the melodies that seem to find us until they're finished songs and start to play. When senseless acts of tragedy remind us that nothing here is promised--not one day. This show is proof that history remembers. We live in times when hate and fear seem stronger. We rise and fall and light from dying embers--remembrances that hope and love last longer. And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside. I sing Vanessa's symphony. Eliza tells her story. Now, fill the world with music, love, and pride.
— Lin-Manuel Miranda
There are worst things in life than kissing boys.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
You don't deserve the anger you're turning on yourself. Your abuser's the one who does.
— Cheryl Rainfield, Scars
wtf even is my sexuality
— Dan Howell
I'm blown away by how happy you make me. Thank you for being there for me when I'm stupid enough to think I'd rather be alone.
— Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me
the only thing worse than a bigot is an “ally” who can’t stop congratulating themselves on their enlightenment.
— Julio Alexi Genao
Was it love or wasn't it that she felt for Carol? And how absurd it was that she didn't even know. She had heard about girls falling in love, and she knew what kind of people they were and what they looked like. Neither she nor Carol looked like that. Yet the way she felt about Carol passed all the tests for love and fitted all the descriptions.
— Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt
The beauty of standing up for your rights is others will see you standing and stand up as well.
— Cassandra Duffy
It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.
— E.M. Forster, Maurice
All I can tell you is this. Some hearts break from grief some from joy. Some even break from love. But hearts break because they are too small to contain the gifts life gives us. Your task will be to let your heart grow large enough not to break
— Catherine M. Wilsonson
The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be all right. Without hope, not only gays, but the blacks, the seniors, the handicapped, the us'es, the us'es will give up. And if you help elect to the central committee and other offices, more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone. So if there is a message I have to give, it is that if I've found one overriding thing about my personal election, it's the fact that if a gay person can be elected, it's a green light. And you and you and you, you have to give people hope....
— Harvey Milk
Let's make no mistake about this: The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods. If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living. To sit on the front steps--whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city--and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color....And I hardly need to tell you that in the 19- or 24-inch view of the world, cleanliness has long since eclipsed godliness. Soon we'll all smell, look, and actually be laboratory clean, as sterile on the inside as on the out. The perfect consumer, surrounded by the latest appliances. The perfect audience, with a ringside seat to almost any event in the world, without smell, without taste, without feel--alone and unhappy in the vast wasteland of our living rooms. I think that what we actually need, of course, is a little more dirt on the seat of our pants as we sit on the front stoop and talk to our neighbors once again, enjoying the type of summer day where the smell of garlic travels slightly faster than the speed of sound.
— Harvey Milk
The God of Imagination lived in fairytales. And the best fairytales made you fall in love. It was while flicking through "Sleeping Beauty" that I met my first love, Ivar. He was a six-year-old bello ragazzo with blond hair and eyebrows. He had bomb-blue eyes and his two front teeth were missing.The road to Happily Ever After, however, was paved with political barbed wire. Three things stood in my way.1. The object of my affection didn't know he was the object of my affection.2. The object of my affection preferred Action Man to Princess Aurora.3. The object of my affection was a boy and I wasn't allowed to love a boy.
— Diriye Osman, Fairytales for Lost Children
I’m in love with that girl,” she said out loud in amazement, because she knew that this was a life-changing thing and life-changing things should be said aloud, should have a moment in time, and a place in the air, some molecular structure to make them real. I’m in love with that girl, she heard as it reverberated inside her head. And it was truth, she realised, as things are which you don’t think, but discover have always existed.
— Paula Boock, Dare Truth or Promise
He offered to make-out with Hunter if it would prove that he's ok with me being gay.""Hmm," said Adam. "Yeah I think I need to see proof.""Shut up.""Tell him it has to be shirtless. Wait, let me get my phone out-
— Brigid Kemmerer
After some years of muddled thinking on the subject, he suddenly saw quite clearly what it was he had been running away from; why he had refused Sandy's first invitation, and what the trouble had been with Charles. It was also the trouble, he perceived, with nine-tenths or the people here tonight. They were specialists. They had not merely accepted their limitations, as Laurie was ready to accept his, loyal to his humanity if not to his sex, and bringing an extra humility to the hard study of human experience. They had identified themselves with their limitations; they were making a career of them. They had turned from all other reality, and curled up in them snugly, as in a womb.
— Mary Renault, The Charioteer