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#1

“He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

tags: death, humor

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#2

“We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage

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#3

“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

tags: inspirational, story-teller, storytelling, your-gift

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#4

“Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: labels, manners

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#5

“But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.”
― Gayle Forman , Where She Went

tags: inspirational, where-she-went

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#6

“He was a fool to think he could have love twice in this life. Arrogance. He held her hand close his chest with both of his hands. No one was entitled to anything in this life, not the least of all love.”
― Jami Attenberg, The Middlesteins

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#7

“What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?”
― Jami Attenberg, The Middlesteins

tags: book-clubs, food

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#8

“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: on-writing, storytelling

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#9

“I am frightened of nothing."
"Nothing?"
"Nothing."
"Are you extremely frightened of nothing?"
"Absolutely terrified of it."
"I have nothing in my pockets. Would you like to see it?"
"No, I most definitely would not.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

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#10

“Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

tags: stories, story

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#11

“You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds."
"What, a phobia?"
"Sort of."
"Well, that's the common term for an irrational fear of birds."
"What do they call a rational fear of birds, then?”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

tags: birds

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#12

“There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

tags: spider

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#13

“That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

tags: old-age, youth

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#14

“I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.”
― David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

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#15

“We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

tags: dreams, letters, love, love-at-first-sight, power-of-words, writing

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#16

“Ah,” said a voice from the doorway, “having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you?
“It’s biannual,” said Jem. “And no, this is not that meeting.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

tags: clockwork-prince, will-herondale

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#17

“They’re not hideous,” said Tessa.
Will blinked at her. “What?”
“Gideon and Gabriel,” said Tessa. “They’re really quite good-looking, not hideous at all.”
“I spoke,” said Will, in sepulchral tones, “of the pitch-black inner depths of their souls.”
Tessa snorted. “And what color do you suppose the inner depths of your soul are, Will Herondale?”
“Mauve,” said Will.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

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#18

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

tags: chapter-24, life, will-herondale

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#19

“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: inside, looks, people, true-nature

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#20

“Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: adults, fear, neil-gaiman

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#21

“Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

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#22

“I'm sure you won't dream of trying to escape from your obligations by fleeing the city...'
'I assure you the thought never even crossed my mind, lord.'
'Indeed? Then if I were you I'd sue my face for slander.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

tags: humor

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#23

“Hrun the Barbarian, who was practilly an academic by Hub standards in that he could think without moving his lips.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

tags: color-of-magic, humor, pratchett

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#24

“My Lord... what is Death like?" called the old man tremulously.
"When I have investigated it fully, I will let you know," came the faintest of modulations on the breeze.
"Yes," murmured the Loremaster. A thought struck him. "During daylight, please," he added.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

tags: death, discworld, humor, terry-pratchett, the-color-of-magic

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#25

“I am trying really hard not to use the word 'fabulous' right now.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

tags: fabulous, lola-and-the-boy-next-door

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#26

“He said that earlier, about accidents, about never know which one is just a kink in the road and which one is a fork, about never knowing your life is changing until it’s already happened.”
― Gayle Forman

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#27

“No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’
‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?”
― Patrick Ness, The New World

tags: chaos-walking, hope, hopeful, planet, space, space-travel, the-knife-of-never-letting-go, travel

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#28

“When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.”
― Daniel Wallace, Big Fish

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#29

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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#30

“We all have stories, just as you do. Ways in which he touched us, helped us, gave us money, sold it to us wholesale. Lots of stories, big and small. They all add up. Over a lifetime it all adds up. That's why we're here, William. We're a a part of him, who he is, just as he is a part of us. You still don't understand, do you?"
I didn't. But as I stared at the man and he stared back at me, in my father's dream I remembered where we'd met before.
"And what did my father do for you?" I asked him, and the old man smiled.
"He made me laugh," he said.”
― Daniel Wallace, Big Fish

tags: laughter

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