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#1

“Dark of the invisible moon. The night now only slightly less black. By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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#2

“In the night's in their thousands to dream the dreams of a child's imaginings, worlds rich or fearful such as might offer themselves but never the one to be.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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#3

“The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#4

“But all the time one and the same boundlessly identical life fills the universe and is renewed every hour in countless combinations and transformations. Here you have fears about whether you will resurrect, yet you already resurrected when you were born, and you didn't notice it.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

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#5

“If you name things, then you treat them better.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Riverman

tags: fiona-loomis, names

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#6

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
― Jean Genet

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#7

“I asked him, "Do you know the difference between nude and naked?"

He shook his head.

"Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.”
― Larry Niven

tags: things-i-ve-learned

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#8

“In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.”
― Larry Niven

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#9

“two people who were once very close can
without blame
or grand betrayal
become strangers.
perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.”
― Warsan Shire

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#10

“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

tags: fear, philosophy

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#11

“If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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#12

“But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? the monster said, bending down so it's face was close to Conor's. Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

tags: a-monster-calls, conor, dream, monster

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#13

“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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#14

“Have you any idea how hard it is to go nine months out of the year with no sex when you’re married to such a fine piece of male anatomy that he should have been the god of fertility instead of the god of death?”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, The Dream-Hunter

tags: persephone

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#15

“The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery

tags: art, creativity, crime, critic, criticism, detectives, mystery

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#16

“Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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#17

“He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: father, god, son

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#18

“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, dont you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: life, memory

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#19

“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: allegory, brooks, creation, destruction, earth, environment, fish, glens, loss, man, maps, mystery, nature, parable, past, trout, wonder, world

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#20

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
― Mary Oliver

tags: beauty, birds, nature, poetry, shore, woods

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#21

“It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.”
― Benjamin Rush, A Memorial Containing Travels Through Life or Sundry Incidents in the Life of Dr Benjamin Rush

tags: forest, nature, society, woods

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#22

“My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

tags: heart, heartbreak, life

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#23

“You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don't rouse my hate instead. And when you have once extinguished my love, you will find it no easy matter to kindle it again.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

tags: jealousy

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#24

“His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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#25

“Favorite Quotations.
I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue.
The worth of a book is measured by what you carry away from it.
It's not over till it's over.
Imagination is everything.
All life is an experiment.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly.”
― Pat Frayne, Tales of Topaz the Conjure Cat: Part I Topaz and the Evil Wizard & Part II Topaz and the Plum-Gista Stone

tags: action, adventure, animals, bats, battles, castle, cave-scarey, conjure-cat, curses, dark-powers, evil, fairy-elf, flesh-eaters, forest, fox, friendship, gnome-fortress, gnomes, goose-bumps, healers, lands, loyalty, magic, magic-stone, missing-children, mission, mystery, mystical, ogre, owl, paranormal-powers, quest, raccoon, snakes, spiders, spirit, sprite, suspense, troll, witch, wizard, wolf

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#26

“Wind warns November’s done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, Web-winged and furious.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

tags: autumn, bat, bats, dialogue-over-a-ouija-board, fall, foliage, leaves, november, ouija, wind

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#27

“Not every winged Creature is considered a bird or a bat. Some wings are made of magic.

- Raani York – 2013 -”
― Raani York, Dragonbride

tags: adventure, bat, bats, bird, dragon, magic, wings, witch, witchcraft

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#28

“All I ever wanted was to know what to do.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

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#29

“Is there anything more heartbreaking than drowning in sight of land? Is there a single one of us who hasn't at least once felt haunted by the fear of slipping away within sight of a safe haven?”
― Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned

tags: failure

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#30

“Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.”
― Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned

tags: drowning, love

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