"'I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, Sir,' said Alice, 'because I'm not myself you see.'"

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Ch. 5

"But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist."
- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

"Some day, Utterson, after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Chapter 6

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

Dr. Seuss

Sometimes I wondered if I was seeing the same things through my eyes that the rest of the world was seeing through theirs. Maybe there was a glitch in my brain.

- Stephanie Meyers, Bella Swan, Twilight

"Some day, Utterson, after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Chapter 6

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

Dr. Seuss

"Books about law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word 'incentive' here means 'an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do' - to read long, dull, and difficult books."

-Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

"I was going without a lot of things these days, like Pop-Tarts and shoelaces, to avoid spending time in public."

Stephanie Meyers, Bella Swan, Breaking Dawn

"I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells"

Dr. Seuss

"We raise our wands for Dumbldore"

Victoria, reffering to Dumbledore's death, Harry Potter

"I've been able to see them ever since my first day here. They've always pulled the carriages. Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am."
- J.K. Rowlings, Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."
- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, Ch. 1

"Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you."

-Dr. Seuss

"I always took their kidding with a smile on my face, but it made my blood boil like the water in Mama's teakettle."
- Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows, Ch. 10

"There was an army of adults, whose motives and movements I just couldn't understand and who made no effort to understand mine."
- Maya Angelou, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Chapter 11

"When someone is a little bit wrong — say, when a waiter puts nonfat milk in your espresso macchiato, instead of lowfat milk — it is often quite easy to explain to them how and why they are wrong. But if someone is surpassingly wrong — say, when a waiter bites your nose instead of taking your order--you can often be so surprised that you are unable to say anything at all. Paralyzed by how wrong the waiter is, your mouth would hang slightly open and your eyes would blink over and over, but you would be unable to say a word."

- Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room

"Book lovers will understand me,
and they will know too, that part of the pleasure
of a library lies in its very existence."
~ Jan Morris ~

"so why can't you live in the clouds?"

- *me*

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that."

~J.K. Rowling, "The Mirror of Erised," Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Fine."

- *me*

“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”

"Books are humanity in print.”

"The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness."
- Bram Stoker, Dracula

"If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "WEll this isn't to bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed" but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm,!"
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

"I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind."
- Maya Angelou, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Chapter 10

"It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right."
— Lemony Snicket (The Blank Book)

"A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

"Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it would be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it."
— Lemony Snicket (The Wide Window)

" a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points..."
- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

"Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything."
- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

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"The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings."