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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

“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

“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“Mew," the kitten retorted, locking gazes with him. It had the expression common to all kittens, that of a tyrant in the becoming. 'I was comfortable, and you dared to move,' those jade eyes said. 'For that you must die.' When it became apparent to the cat that its two or three pounds of mass were insufficient to break Locke's neck with one mighty snap, it put its paws on his shoulders and began sharing its drool-covered nose with his lips. He recoiled.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies