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“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.”
― Margaret Landon

“All halls lead somewhere. Where there is a way in, there is a way out. Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― George R.R. Martin

“All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. Swift as a deer. Quiet as shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. Fear cuts deeper than swords. The man who fears losing has already lost. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.'
'Girls don't shave', Arya said.
'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“You lie,” he said. “All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it … though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.”
― Edna O'Brien, In the Forest

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
― Dante Alighieri

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
― John Guare, Landscape of the Body

“Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?”
― J.M. Coetzee

“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

“Only the man who has known freedom
Can define his prison.”
― Catherine Fisher, Incarceron

“We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.”
― George Moore

“You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
― Tom Wolfe

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
― Washington Irving

“Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Banana Yoshimoto

“Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me.”
― Banana Yoshimoto

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen

“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”
― Djuna Barnes

“What a long strange trip it's been.”
― Jerry Garcia

“The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.”
― Gabrielle Roy

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”
― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

“I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl