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    Jacqueline Carey
    “When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me”
    ― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
    tags: kushiel-s-dart
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Victor Hugo
    “Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: courage, inspirational
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    J.K. Rowling
    “What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!"
    "You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!"
    "THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: betrayal, friends, traitor, treachery
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    Frank Herbert
    “Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: fear, self-knowledge
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: heartache, loss, love
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    Umberto Eco
    “The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.”
    ― Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality
    tags: cowardice, heroism
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    Stephen King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: life
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    Jacqueline Carey
    “It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only say, if you have never known what it is to be utterly betrayed and abandoned, you cannot know how close it is.”
    ― Jacqueline Carey
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    Anne Rice
    “As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.”
    ― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
    tags: nature
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    Anne Rice
    “In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?”
    ― Anne Rice
    tags: love-hell
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “All human wisdom is contained in these two words--"Wait and Hope.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
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    Jacqueline Carey
    “If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.”
    ― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
    tags: battle, loyalty, war
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Do anything, save to lie down and die!”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
    tags: courage, just-do-it, live-life
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    Anne Rice
    “Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
    tags: anne-rice, death, deserved, hell, karma, lestat, lestat-de-lioncourt, louis, punishment, remorse, vampire
    243 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: friends-betrayal
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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    William Shakespeare
    “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
    To the last syllable of recorded time;
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
    Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
    And then is heard no more. It is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: inspirational
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    Dante Alighieri
    “No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
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    Jacqueline Carey
    “Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?”
    ― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen
    tags: cruel, god, human, hurt, love, pain
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    Richard Matheson
    “What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?”
    ― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come
    tags: judgement
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.”
    ― Sarah Dessen
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    Kate Morton
    “Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.”
    ― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden
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    Albert Schweitzer
    “If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
    tags: love
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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    Dean Koontz
    “In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.”
    ― Dean Koontz
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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
    tags: inspirational
    166 likes

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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother.”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
    tags: sadness, solitude
    93 likes



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