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    Kate Canterbary
    “Just another day in the shambles.”
    ― Kate Canterbary, Thresholds
    tags: riley-walsh, shambles
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    Kate Canterbary
    “There are tornadoes in my head sometimes”…
    “I know,” he said as his lips met mine. “But your storms, they don’t scare me.”
    ― Kate Canterbary, Restored
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    Kate Canterbary
    “Oh God," Nick said, clutching his chest. "I love it. You're the Riot Grrrl version of the Little Mermaid. You're the Third Wave feminist Little Mermaid who told the prince to go fuck himself, and then went on to turn the underwater community into conservation activists, aren't you?”
    ― Kate Canterbary, The Spire
    tags: erin-walsh, littler-mermaid, nick-and-erin, nicknames, the-walshes
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    Kate Canterbary
    “I love you, too, and I’m not listening to any opening remarks or qualifications on the matter. You are my fire and ice, my calm and chaos, my everything, and I can’t remember life before loving you.”
    ― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone
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    Holly Black
    “Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.”
    ― Holly Black, Ironside
    tags: corny, funny, ironside
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    Jim Butcher
    “Are you always a smartass?'

    Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites
    tags: humor, impudence, sarcasm, smartass
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    Kate Canterbary
    “Fear is a choice,” I said. “Danger is real, but you decide whether or not you allow fear into your mind.”
    ― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone
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    Janet Evanovich
    “My professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess.”
    ― Janet Evanovich
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    Jen Lancaster
    “I can't believe anyone would voluntarily run 26 miles. Sometimes I sit on the couch cross-legged because I don't feel like walking to the bathroom.”
    ― jen lancaster
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    Ayn Rand
    “[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

    [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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    Stacey Ballis
    “Going to the gym...all those people who always told me that you get addicted to it, that endorphins kick in, that eventually you crave it and look forward to it are sick lying ****s and I want to choke them with a protein bar and pummel them about the head with a bottle of SmartWater.”
    ― Stacey Ballis, Good Enough to Eat
    tags: humor, inspirational
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    Diana Wynne Jones
    “I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
    ― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle
    tags: happily-ever-after, love
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Ayn Rand
    “I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds, I am not a sacrifice on their altars.”
    ― Ayn Rand
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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    Jen Lancaster
    “I don't mean to get all religious here, but I'm pretty sure key lime martinis (with a graham cracker & sugar rim) are proof that Jesus loves us.”
    ― Jen Lancaster
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    Jim Butcher
    “Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Storm Front
    tags: demon, paranoia, paranoid
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    Holly Black
    “What an author doesn't know could fill a book.”
    ― Holly Black, Lucinda's Secret
    tags: author, books, knowledge
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    Ruth Reichl
    “Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner”
    ― Ruth Reichl
    tags: cooking, food, gourmet, humor
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    Gail Carriger
    “I have died and gone to the land of bad novels.”
    ― Gail Carriger, Blameless
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    Gail Carriger
    “You are about as covert as a sledgehammer.”
    ― Gail Carriger, Soulless
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    Alton Brown
    “We are fat and sick and dying because we have handed a basic, fundamental and intimate function of life over to corporations. We choose to value our nourishment so little that we entrust it to strangers. This is insanity. Feed yourselves. Feed your loved ones. And for God's sake feed your children.”
    ― Alton Brown
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    Rick Riordan
    “You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
    tags: humor, mythological, paradise
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    Rick Riordan
    “Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?"
    "Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?"
    "Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse
    tags: humor, true-love
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    Justin Halpern
    “The worst thing you can be is a liar. . . . Okay, fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but then number two is liar. Nazi one, liar two.”
    ― Justin Halpern (Sh*t My Dad Says)
    tags: dad, justin-halpern, shitmydadsays
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    Bryan Lee O'Malley
    “Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face.”
    ― Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim, Volume 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
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    Bryan Lee O'Malley
    “This song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called, 'We hate you, please die.”
    ― Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
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