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“I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts.”
― Patricia Reilly Giff, Water Street

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“We need a shape for the tale. A beginning, a middle and an end.”
― Doris Lessing, Time Bites: Views and Reviews – Wise and Witty Essays on Literature, Politics, and the Human Spirit

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness