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Top Quotes from Top Books of All Time

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“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.”

Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie

“Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.”

Maktub

Paulo Coelho

“No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.”

Streams of Silver

R.A. Salvatore

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.”

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Hunter S. Thompson

“Why not think that sometimes—just sometimes—you can overcome evil with silence? And let people hear their hatefulness in their own ears, without distraction. Maybe goodness is enough to expose evil for what it really is, sometimes.”

Gabriel's Inferno

Sylvain Reynard

“Most little girls in England grow up wanting to marry a prince. Bex grew up wanting to kick James Bond's butt and assume his double-0 ranking.”

Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Ally Carter

“Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together in a way that makes sense to them. And if you don't know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right. But the truth is, that isn't you. That isn't you at all.”

This Song Will Save Your Life

Leila Sales

“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”

Far From the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy

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