“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar.

"É como se corresse sobre o mar para as estrelas, na mais maravilhosa viagem do mundo. Uma viagem como o Professor nunca leu nem inventou. Seu coração bate tanto, tanto, que ele o aperta com a mão." ― Capitães da Areia, Jorge Amado.

“I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.” ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings.

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.” ― Virginia Woolf.

“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, The Lord of the Rings.

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore.

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own.

“I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.” ― James Joyce, Dubliners.

“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.” ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore.

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ― Jane Austen.

“I am large, I contain multitudes” ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass.

"Conor blinked. Then blinked again. “You’re going to tell me stories?” / Indeed, the monster said. / “Well–” Conor looked around in disbelief. “How is that a nightmare?” / Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt." ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls.

"You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do" ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls.

"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones.

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.” ― Neil Gaiman.

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre.

“That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.” ― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84.

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline.

“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.” ― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse.

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ― W.B. Yeats.

“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.” ― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Beware how you give your heart.” ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey.

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.” ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard. Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.” ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“Her heart was made of liquid sunsets.” ― Virginia Woolf

“So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Never laugh at live dragons.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien

“I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' 'I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections

“Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.” ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the mountains like a flame.” ― W.B. Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire

“Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right. -Albus Dumbledore” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it. The streets of London have their map; but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?” ― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.” ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows