Emma add a quote by Roald Dahl

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:47:38 -0700

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." -- Roald Dahl

Emma add a quote by Lemony Snicket

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:52:47 -0800

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them." -- Lemony Snicket

Emma add a quote by Jane Austen

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 05:43:51 -0800

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal." -- Jane Austen

Emma add a quote by Dodie Smith

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 05:43:56 -0800

"I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life." -- Dodie Smith

Emma add a quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 05:43:56 -0800

"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. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king." -- J.R.R. Tolkien

Emma add a quote by Nicole Krauss

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:18:17 -0700

"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering." -- Nicole Krauss

Emma add a quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:14:52 -0700

"Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return." -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Emma add a quote by John Green

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:16:20 -0700

"When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail." -- John Green

Emma add a quote by Stephen Chbosky

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:32:20 -0700

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be." -- Stephen Chbosky

Emma add a quote by Stephen Chbosky

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:33:08 -0700

"Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poem And he called it "Chops" because that was the name of his dog And that's what it was all about And his teacher gave him an A and a gold star And his mother hung it on the kitchen door and read it to his aunts That was the year Father Tracy took all the kids to the zoo And he let them sing on the bus And his little sister was born with tiny toenails and no hair And his mother and father kissed a lot And the girl around the corner sent him a Valentine signed with a row of X's and he had to ask his father what the X's meant And his father always tucked him in bed at night And was always there to do it Once on a piece of white paper with blue lines he wrote a poem And he called it "Autumn" because that was the name of the season And that's what it was all about And his teacher gave him an A and asked him to write more clearly And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door because of its new paint And the kids told him that Father Tracy smoked cigars And left butts on the pews And sometimes they would burn holes That was the year his sister got glasses with thick lenses and black frames And the girl around the corner laughed when he asked her to go see Santa Claus And the kids told him why his mother and father kissed a lot And his father never tucked him in bed at night And his father got mad when he cried for him to do it. Once on a paper torn from his notebook he wrote a poem And he called it "Innocence: A Question" because that was the question about his girl And that's what it was all about And his professor gave him an A and a strange steady look And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door because he never showed her That was the year that Father Tracy died And he forgot how the end of the Apostle's Creed went And he caught his sister making out on the back porch And his mother and father never kissed or even talked And the girl around the corner wore too much makeup That made him cough when he kissed her but he kissed her anyway because that was the thing to do And at three a.m. he tucked himself into bed his father snoring soundly That's why on the back of a brown paper bag he tried another poem And he called it "Absolutely Nothing" Because that's what it was really all about And he gave himself an A and a slash on each damned wrist And he hung it on the bathroom door because this time he didn't think he could reach the kitchen." -- Stephen Chbosky

Emma add a quote by Dorothy Parker

Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:50:38 -0700

"I hate writing, I love having written." -- Dorothy Parker

Emma add a quote by Libba Bray

Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:42:35 -0700

"Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize." -- Libba Bray

Emma add a quote by Lauren Oliver

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:32:50 -0700

"Everything looks beautiful. The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from making sound judgments. But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself." -- Lauren Oliver

Emma add a quote by E. Lockhart

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:48:24 -0700

"It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people. She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her to be. That Bunny Rabbit is dead." -- E. Lockhart

Emma add a quote by L.M. Montgomery

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:30:16 -0700

"I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage." -- L.M. Montgomery

Emma add a quote by L.M. Montgomery

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:34:07 -0700

"My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes." -- L.M. Montgomery

Emma add a quote by J.K. Rowling

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:23:53 -0700

"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be." -- J.K. Rowling

Emma add a quote by Roald Dahl

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:21:31 -0700

"The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village." -- Roald Dahl

Emma add a quote by Michael Crichton

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:45:00 -0700

"If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. " -- Michael Crichton

Emma add a quote by L.M. Montgomery

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:45:31 -0800

"Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven." -- L.M. Montgomery

Emma add a quote by Margaret Atwood

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:30:59 -0800

"Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise." -- Margaret Atwood

Emma add a quote by Sylvia Plath

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:09:52 -0800

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited." -- Sylvia Plath

Emma add a quote by John Green

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:30:50 -0800

"Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful." -- John Green

Emma add a quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:34:39 -0800

"I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love." -- Jonathan Safran Foer

Emma add a quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:35:16 -0800

"Songs are as sad as the listener." -- Jonathan Safran Foer

Emma add a quote by John Green

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:59:32 -0700

"I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is." -- John Green

Emma add a quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:29:59 -0700

"It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind." -- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Emma add a quote by Dr. Seuss

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:05:46 -0700

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

Emma add a quote by Madeleine L'Engle

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:10:31 -0700

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children." -- Madeleine L'Engle

Emma add a quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:13:49 -0700

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." -- J.R.R. Tolkien