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#1

“It's their skins I'm peeling," she said. "The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of meaninglessness.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

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#2

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

tags: humor

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#3

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories

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#4

“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

tags: full, hat, pratchett, sky, terry

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#5

“Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

tags: heart, paper

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#6

“People are too complicated to have simple labels.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

tags: labels, people

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#7

“We are the choices we make.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

tags: the-knife-of-never-letting-go

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#8

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

tags: philosophy, wisdom

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#9

“Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

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#10

“Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

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#11

“It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

tags: perseverance

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#12

“War makes monsters out of men.”
― Patrick Ness

tags: ben, chaos-walking, patrick-ness, the-knife-of-never-letting-go

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#13

“Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

tags: fiction, stories

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#14

“Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

tags: chaos-walking, hope, patrick-ness, the-knife-of-never-letting-go

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#15

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#16

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#17

“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

tags: memory, pain

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#18

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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#19

“How will a person know, Selina, when the soul that has the affinity with hers is near it?" She answered, "She will know. Does she look for air, before she breathes it? This love will be guided to her; and when it comes, she will know. And she will do anything to keep that love about her, then. Because to lose it will be like a death to her.”
― Sarah Waters, Affinity

tags: affinity, love, margaret, selina

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