Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

– Henry David Thoreau

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

— Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

How can I know what I think until I see what I say?

— E. M. Forster

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

— Albert Einstein

Sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

— Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you;
figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.

— Barbara Kingsolver

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.

— A. A. Milne

You may have tangible wealth untold;

Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.

Richer than I you can never be—

I had a Mother who read to me.

— Reading Mother poem by Strickland Gillilan

Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you’ve never been…

— David McCord