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“The fire burns as the novel taught it how.”
― Wallace Stevens

“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.”
― Paul Valéry

“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“He gifted the people He made with an echo of His creative power.”
― Sharon Hinck, Hidden Current

“I longed to be loved that way.
You are, sweetheart. You are loved. Stop trying to be a savior, and let me carry you.”
― Sharon Hinck, The Secret Life of Becky Miller

“Destiny is measured in inches.”
― Sharon Hinck, Hidden Current

“I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility