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“As I descend the stairs, I can't help brushing my fingers along the unblemished white marble walls. So cold and beautiful...But there's no give to the surface--only my flesh yields, my warmth taken. Stone conquers people every time.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The world instantly ceased to be a word and became skin.”
― Christelle Dabos, La Mémoire de Babel

“For who knows not that Truth is strong..; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licencings to make her victorious.”
― John Milton, Aeropagitica

“The universe was good because he was in it.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Darkness and evil had vanished for ever, as a dream is dissolved by day.”
― Margaret Greaves, Ballet Stories

“So we spent our undergraduate years awash in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse and Middle English, living with Beowulf and Sir Gawain, ... and we were required to pay hardly any attention to the 19th-century novel, and not much to the 18th. As for the 20th century, it might have never arrived. As a friend of mine said, 'They taught us to believe in dragons.”
― Marcus Sedgwick, Howl’s Moving Castle

“You could command the sky to surrender all its power”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Rivers ... collect fragments of our lives. Sometimes people lose things in rivers, or throw them in on purpose. Some are carried along by the current. Occasionally they resurface; in this way, the river brings us pieces of the past. Others sink slowly down, eventually settling in the mud. Bicycles, keys, mementos—even memories ... What we throw away or lose, rivers often hold and remember.”
― Monika Vaicenavičienė, What Is A River?

“Till this moment I never knew myself.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“More important, he shows us what literature means and why it matters by allowing us to share with him the subjective experience of reading and the complex sensations it inspires — the dizzying exhilaration of discovery; the sense of power, accomplishment, and pride that comes of achieving something difficult; the wonder we feel in those rare moments when a much-anticipated experience turns out to be even greater than we had imagined it would be.”
― Kelly J. Mays, The Norton Introduction to Literature

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Yes, it's true that I fell in love with someone and that he died, along with the two other people I loved best in this world. That has been the main thing to know about me, the only thing about me for a very long time, although I did not know it myself. But there must be more to know. There will be more.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Miyazaki's films bear witness to a keen understanding of animation as the most unfettered and potentially the most creative cinematic form thanks to its knack of transcending the laws of physics and biology, as well as flouting the expectations of logic and mimesis with carnivalesque gusto.”
― Dani Cavallaro, The Anime Art of Hayao Miyazaki

“Fostering magical thinking, the chivalric romance yields a space-time in which the marvelous co-exists at all times with mundane routines. Its magic is able to envision the invisible, to endow the amorphous with palpable shape, and to place illusion and reality on the same level. Concurrently, the romance reminds us that it is essential to value the magical realm’s irreducible alterity and inscrutability, rather than attempt to tame it by rationalizing its wonders.”
― Dani Cavallaro, The Chivalric Romance and the Essence of Fiction

“The pale figures pulsed faintly; she could imagine that they were nothing more than afterimages, like the glow left by a bright light in your eyes, after the lights go out.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“A heart's a heavy burden.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“In this place, the woods went on farther, the trees becoming cruder and less treelike that farther you went. Pretty soon they seemed very approximate, like the idea of trees: a grayish-brown trunk below, a greenish splurge of something that might have been leaves above.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Anything that might occur in 'story-time' could ultimately not be stranger than the utter oddity of the 'real-world.”
― Marcus Sedgwick, Howl’s Moving Castle

“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“What you are saying and the way you are saying it are very closely linked. I discovered that I always had to let the book I was writing find its own style. Only in that way can you be sure that you are doing the right thing by your subject matter. It's a strange feeling -- as if the book has a life of its own.”
― Marcus Sedgwick, Howl’s Moving Castle

“The shadows fall away, letting in the fading light of dusk”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“You supposed me more than really existed. But now suppose as much as you choose; give a loose rein to your fancy, indulge your imagination in every possible flight which the subject will afford... and you will not greatly err.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Sometimes Coraline would forget who she was while she was daydreaming that she was exploring the Arctic, or the Amazon rain forest, or Darkest Africa, and it was not until someone tapped her on the shoulder or said her name that Coraline would come back from a million miles away with a start, and all in a fraction of a second have to remember who she was, and what her name was, and that she was even there at all.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“She will take your life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll awake and your heart and your soul will have gone. A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“When the sky has fewer stars than it had the night before, then you know that the lamplighter's been at work- mixing stars and luminous dew to paint the glow on fireflies.”
― Charles van Sandwyk, How to See Fairies