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“Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not,”
― Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

“In his mind he vaguely pondered whether he should strike that long-legged Englishman in the face and call him a coward, or whether such conduct in a lady's presence might be deemed ungentlemanly, when Marguerite happily interposed.”
― Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

“Crowley shook his head. "I sometimes wonder if it was a good idea having Halt train apprentices. He seems to teach them no respect for authority."

"Oh, he teaches us to respect authority," Gilan said innocently. "He just teaches us to ignore it when necessary.”
― John Flanagan, The Lost Stories

“It’s all about perspective, I suppose. As a rule, all of the various ogre breeds are on their best behavior here at the market.” “This one looks as though he would like to break that rule.” I swallowed. “He looks as though he would like to break it across my face.”
― William Ritter, The Map

“You really don’t understand, do you?” she said. “I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted? Just like that, and it didn’t mean anything. What then?”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“If you knew the trouble we’ve had because Howl will keep falling in love like this! We’ve had lawsuits, and suitors with swords, and mothers with rolling pins, and fathers and uncles with cudgels. And aunts. Aunts are terrible. They go for you with hat pins.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

“Being that I am of a high intellect, I find cursing distasteful and ill mannered. If that were not the case, however, I would compose a creative, innovative ballad of cursing and recite it at this moment,”
― K.M. Shea, Beauty and the Beast

“Let me tell you something, missy. You young maidens now days get misty-eyed thinking about true love and the fathomless adoration you will share. It’s not like that. Real love is looking at someone and knowing that you wouldn’t mind waking up to their bad breath for the next century, and you are fine with them seeing you before you brush your hair and fix your face for the day. Elle”
― K.M. Shea, Beauty and the Beast

“Courage like Daniel’s only comes from God.” Leith leaned a hand against the tabletop. “Daniel didn’t keep praying and trusting because he had courage. He had courage because he prayed and trusted.”
― Tricia Mingerink, Deny

“Finally, finally, this is what bravery looks like. This is what courage looks like. It has nothing to do with dominating the day, every single day. It has to do with showing up and speaking truth. One true sentence after one true sentence.”
― Hannah Brencher, If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers

“If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better. The”
― Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

“In fairytales, the prince always charges in on a white stallion, sword held aloft, and goes into a glorious battle that somehow solves all problems. The story never tells of the calculations he has to do, or all of the people he has to win over first, or the money troubles he has. It’s always some grand quest, or adventure, or battle that he has to go through to win the day. Right now, I’d rather have that grand quest or battle.” “Bellomi.”
― Honor Raconteur, The Child Prince

“How can you be so wrong about someone? It just goes to show that we let people into our lives without really knowing just how much chaos they are going to cause whilst they’re there. As children, our parents teach us that monsters aren’t real, but the older you get you start to realise that they are all around us and sometimes they are even closer than we think.                                                                             Chapter”
― Lacey London, Meet Clara Morgan

“the universe works in mysterious ways. It just goes to show that sometimes good things have to fall apart in order for better things to fall together.       *”
― Lacey London, Meet Clara Morgan

“I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.” After”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

“What joy to fully know and feel the bond of true friendship.”
― Jaye L. Knight, Samara's Peril

“HAZEL WAS AN EXPERT ON WEIRD. She’d seen her mother possessed by an earth goddess. She’d created a giant out of gold. She’d destroyed an island, died, and come back from the Underworld. But getting kidnapped by a field of grass? That was new. She”
― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

“One probably should not form opinions about people based on the cleanliness of their workspace, but she promptly liked this Telnola more than Ms. Klume. Of”
― Lindsay Buroker, Dark Currents

“Bits and pieces here and there do no good for a man’s soul. Thinking all of it is right or all of it is wrong does no good, either. Just as a magician cannot work all materials. He must choose one. But how does he know? How do these people believe in this faith, but not the others? Yet they are happy.” Ceony”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.”
― Thea Dorn

“I don’t like places or people either that haven’t any faults. I think a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“In Dylan’s experience, sailors on sinking ships either cursed or prayed louder than usual. All”
― K.M. Shea, The Little Selkie

“We all have strengths and weaknesses. That’s what makes us interesting. If each person was the same, there would be no innovation.”
― K.M. Shea, The Little Selkie

“Some people need a starfish in the face. It does them good.”
― K.M. Shea, The Little Selkie

“Well, one can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once,” said Anne gaily. “You see, I was little for fourteen years and I’ve only been grown-uppish for scarcely three. I’m sure I shall always feel like a child in the woods.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“No wonder princesses were so impotent in fairy tales, she thought. If all they could do was smile, stand straight, and speak to squirrels, then what choice did they have but to wait for a boy to rescue them? Princess”
― Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil

“You can never get a true measure of a person—you can never fully understand yourself, even—because life is always throwing new things at us.”
― K.M. Shea, Swan Lake

“You sound like—” “A writer?” “I was going to say lunatic, but writer’s fairly close.” “As”
― Kristen Heitzmann, Told You So

“Vianne had been improvising recipes for years, and people, to her mind, were not that much different than food. Both were highly predictable if you paid attention. First,”
― Kenley Davidson, Traitor's Masque