“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.” – Neil Gaiman, from American Gods
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Daily Quote: I Don’t Like Being Out in the Dark Now
“But the country folks, if you ask them, would swear on the Bible that he walks: there are those who speak to having met him near the church, and on the moor, and even within this house. Idle tales, you’ll say, and so say I . . . Yet, still, I don’t like being out in the dark now; and I don’t like being left by myself in this grim house: I cannot help it; I shall be glad when they leave it, and shift to the Grange.” – Emily Brontë, from Wuthering Heights
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Daily Quote: Admiring the Winter
“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter… In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.” – John Burroughs
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Daily Quote: What a Ghost Is
“Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that’s what.” – Salman Rushdie, from The Satanic Verses
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Daily Quote: Don’t Be Fearful of the Night
“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” – Sarah Williams
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Daily Quote: Good Writing Days
“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.” – Neil Gaiman
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Daily Quote: We All Need Somewhere to Belong
“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.” – Jane Howard
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Daily Quote: In Love with Language
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” ~ W.H. Auden
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Daily Quote: Poetry and Emotion
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” – Robert Frost
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Daily Quote: Carl Jung on Acceptance
“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.” – Carl Jung
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