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“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Perhaps that was the point; life, if you did it right, meant learning and changing. If you didn't, you died- or stopped growing - which amounted to more or less the same thing. So I would slide in and out of different roles until I discovered the one that fit me best.

-Deuce, (183)”
― Ann Aguirre, Outpost

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
― Joseph Conrad, Chance

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
― Albert Einstein

“Intent doesn't matter, she'd say, when you've really injured someone else. You need to be open to their pain and anger if you're ever to make things whole between you.”
― Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves

“Each kiss was nearer to the last one of all.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ineffective deterrent, yes?”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“It is a human failing, to attribute the best of motives to those we know the least, and the worst to those we love best.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“That which yields, is not always weak. Choose your victories wisely.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“The edge between love and hate is honed finer than the keenest fletchett. She told me something like that, once, but I dared not think on such things, with her name so close to my tongue. She told me too that it was not my acquiescence that interested her, but my rebellion. That was the thing that set her apart from the others, who failed to see where it lay.
That was the thing that terrified me.
-Chapter 67”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“There is something innately pitiful about a man in vambraces spewing up his breakfast.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“They hand me one lemon, then another, and all I can think when their fingertips leave is that we're mixing ourselves together. That's what happens when skin presses skin. We think of ourselves as solid and separate, but we're not. We trade and swap tiny pieces of ourselves all the time.”
― A.R. Capetta, The Heartbreak Bakery