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A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger-

If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early-

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless-

If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Books Reading

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Joanne K. Rowling

Books Reading

If you don't like to read you haven't found the right book.

Joanne K. Rowling

Books Reading

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Books Mirrors

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Books Reading

Never memorize what you can look up in books.

Albert Einstein

Books Learning

Jeod: "Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life."

Christopher Paolini in The Inheritance Cycle - Eragon

Books

I'm sorry, but how can one possibly pay attention to a book with no pictures in it?

Alice In Wonderland

Books

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Books Reading

One should never underestimate the power of books.

Paul Auster in The Brooklyn Follies

Books

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Stephen King

Books

If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Books Letters Sentences

Of all the worlds that man has created, the one in books is the most impressive.

Heinrich Heine

Books

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Poetry Books Foolishness

'And what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversation?'

Lewis Carroll in Alice In Wonderland

Books

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

Roald Dahl

Children & Childhood Books Reading

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Angel's Game

Books

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Stephen King

Books

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

Stephen King in 11/22/63

Books Reading

The world is like a book. Those who don't travel read only one page.

Aurelius Augustinus

Books Traveling World

This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

David Gemmell

Books

He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and happy solitude quite like a library did.

Heather Brewer in First Kill

Books

Open Books, Not Legs
Blow Minds, Not Guys

Drake

Books Intelligence

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Orhan Pamuk (The New Life)

Books Reading

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

Maurice Sendak

Children & Childhood Books Writing

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Jerry Seinfeld

Books Reading

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

Walt Disney

Books

Books are ships which pass through the vast sea of time.

Francis Bacon

Books Time

A book can take you around the world and back, all you have to do is open it.

Eulalie "Lally" Hicks in Fantastic Beasts - 3: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Books

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

China Hackers

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

I will do everything if confirmed as FBI director to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened.

Kash Patel - Januar 2025

The Epstein Files

Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.

James Comey

Smartphones

There are well over 250 victims, so we have to make sure that their identity is protected. Other than that, I think tomorrow you're gonna see some Epstein information being released by my office. What you're gonna see is a lot of flight-logs, a lot of names, a lot of information.

Pam Bondi - February 2025

The Epstein Files

The people of the FBI are sworn to protect both security and liberty. It isn't a question of conflict. We must care deeply about protecting liberty through due process of law, while also safeguarding the citizens we serve - in every investigation.

James Comey

FBI

It's sitting on my desk right now to review. The Trump administration is committed to truth and transparency.

Pam Bondi - February 2025

The Epstein Files

It's a very delicate subject but we should put everything out there and let the people decide it.

Mike Johnson - July 2025

The Epstein Files

All I'm going to say is I put my hand on a Bible, and I raised my right hand and swore to uphold the Constitution of the state of Florida.

Pam Bondi

Florida

Historically, there has been a clear and essential connection between marriage and responsible procreation and child rearing.

Pam Bondi

Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.

Pam Bondi

Donald Trump

Anyone who attacks our LGBT community, anyone who attacks anyone in our state, will be gone after with the full extent of the law.

Pam Bondi

All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.

Pam Bondi

For too long, government bureaucracies have hindered the growth of businesses not only in Louisiana, but all across the United States.

Mike Johnson

Louisiana

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