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    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: friendship, love
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: deception, detection, evidence, facts, obviousness, sherlock-holmes
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    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    ― Sir Francis Bacon
    tags: books, reading
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
    tags: inkheart
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
    tags: fear, heart, imagination, mind
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    Karen Gammons
    “I will tell a thrilling tale of intrigue,” said Queen Noor. “So thrilling that you might think yourself to be in the presence of a fine, traveling storyteller.”
    ― Karen Gammons, Shadow Man
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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    Stephen King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    ― Stephen King, Different Seasons
    tags: life
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    L.J. Smith
    “People die . . . so love them every day.
    Beauty fades . . . so look before it's gone.
    Love changes . . . but not the love you give.
    And if you love, you'll never be alone.”
    ― L.J. Smith, Witchlight
    tags: night-world
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    L.J. Smith
    “You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.”
    ― L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: humor
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    Suzanne Collins
    “You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: the-hunger-games
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte
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    Christopher Morley
    “There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
    ― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls
    tags: bibliophilia, books
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: fantasy, literature, philosophy
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: books, philosophy
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: reading, words, writing
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You
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    Peter S. Beagle
    “Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”
    ― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
    tags: heroes, inspirational
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    Karen Gammons
    “Dorian sat quietly for a moment and then said, “We all straddle the abyss, Penny. If you never look down, how will you ever know who you are or what you will become? Your dad could never be ashamed of you, because falling in that abyss is part of the process of growing up.”
    ― Karen Gammons
    tags: fantasy, young-adult-fiction
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    Karen Gammons
    “Dorian, I have wings!”
    “I can see that.”
    “What am I?” I asked, as chills ran up my spine.
    “I—I can’t be positive, because I have never seen one. But I think you’re a phoenix,” he said in amazement. “You are so beautiful.”
    ― Karen Gammons, Phoenix
    tags: fantasy, teen, young-adult
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    José Martí
    “Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”
    ― Jose Marti
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    Julia Glass
    “When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”
    ― Julia Glass, Three Junes
    tags: fate
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