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1 " Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two. "
― Stephen King , Hearts in Atlantis
2 " Time heals all wounds. "
3 " A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give. "
4 " Good books are for consideration after, too. "
5 " Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too. "
6 " Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity "
7 " Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map. "
8 " It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered. "
9 " Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words - the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers that won't do that. But when you find a book that has both good story and good words, treasure that book. "
10 " What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell. "
11 " Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't. "
12 " Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps. "
13 " Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality. "
14 " And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out. "
15 " It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting. "
16 " Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend "
17 " Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. "
18 " There’s always someone who knows something. "
19 " Good luck, good will, good fortune, not ill. "
20 " Because we never got out. We never got out of the green. Our generation died there. "