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