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In a place where books were banned there could be no personal
freedom, no hope, and no dreams for the future.
Turn someone into a reader and you turn th...
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In books, no one helped a girl who didn’t help herself and every fairy tale ended with the same lessons. Trick your enemy, do what you must, believe in enchantments, save yourself.
The worst that can happen often happens in silence.
It is not the explosion, but the aftermath, when you see through smoke and ash, that you know how much you have lost.
Some people are who you think they are. Some people hide the wolf inside of them, but you can hear them howl.
of women who had been slandered, especially those said to be witches, so why would he fear one who might be real, with magic at her beck and call?
He truly wished that for the next thousand years all government could be in the hands of women, for men had made such a mess of the world, including his own ancestors, men who’d risen to power and fought to keep it, no matter who they might hurt or destroy.
She would not think of herself as a butterfly, there to create chaos, but as a woman who had finally arrived exactly where she wanted to be.
it is, then a single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
Worse than never having had something was to have had it and then have it taken away.
She would go as far as she needed and she would never be found. She would walk invisible into a world in which impossible things had happened and would most certainly happen again.
Mia now understood that Joel was well aware that once a girl walked into a library she could never be controlled again.
Life can be long or short, it is impossible to know, but every once in a while an entire life is spent in one night, the night when the windows are open and you can hear the last of the crickets’ call, when there is a chill in the air and the stars are bright, when nothing else matters, when a single kiss lasts longer than a lifetime, when you do not think about the future or the past, or whether or not you are walking through a dream rather than the real world, when everything you have always wanted and everything you are fated to mourn forever are tied together with black thread and then
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The last time of everything was painful, no matter how beautiful it might be.
Herein are a thousand different doors, and a thousand different lives. Turn the page and you open the door.
Love once, and you can love again. Open your heart, open your eyes, be grateful for what you’ve had. Nothing was promised in this world, nothing lasted, yet what truly mattered always remained. What was eternal could not be captured, yet it flickered in the dark
there beside you, the memory of all that had been.
West of the moon was where you journeyed to meet the person you loved, the one you would never forget.
Sometimes walking away is the bravest thing you can do. When you get there, you’ll know where you are.
