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#1

“Some people are just sad when there aren't talking squirrels.” —Lily Winter”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

tags: adult, amazon, apple, b-n, coin, dragon, dystopian, ebook, epub, faeries, fantasy, ibooks, ibookstore, indie, ipad, kindle, mg, middle, moon, nook, realm, series, ya, young

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#2

“But—" yelped Twizbang, “Greydor will eat us!”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

tags: adult, amazon, apple, b-n, coin, dragon, dystopian, ebook, epub, faeries, fantasy, ibooks, ibookstore, indie, ipad, kindle, mg, middle, moon, nook, realm, series, ya, young

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#3

“You won't find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

tags: adult, amazon, apple, b-n, coin, dragon, dystopian, ebook, epub, faeries, fantasy, ibooks, ibookstore, indie, ipad, kindle, mg, middle, moon, nook, realm, series, ya, young

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#4

“Odd names: Winter, Autumn—they almost sound as if someone just made them up.” —Dubb”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

tags: adult, amazon, apple, b-n, coin, dragon, dystopian, ebook, epub, faeries, fantasy, ibooks, ibookstore, indie, ipad, kindle, mg, middle, moon, nook, realm, series, ya, young

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#5

“Tavin cupped his hands to his mouth. “Here, dragon-dragon-dragon!” he yelled.
Lily stared in amazement. Well, that was bold, she thought, and stupid.”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

tags: adult, amazon, apple, b-n, coin, dragon, dystopian, ebook, epub, faeries, fantasy, ibooks, ibookstore, indie, ipad, kindle, mg, middle, moon, nook, realm, series, ya, young

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#6

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#7

“I've reached that final moment of editing a book—the one where the text manifests as a living breathing person and starts slugging me in the face.”
― Richard Due

tags: editing, writing

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#8

“I was asked the age old question today: why are you an author? I suppose there are lots of answers to this question that would suffice, but for me there is really only one answer that will do: the blank paper taunts me, and I am weak.”
― Richard Due

tags: on-editing

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#9

“Editing is like walking across a room strewn with rose petals and thorns. When you can walk across mostly unbloodied, you're finished.”
― Richard Due

tags: editing, writing

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#10

“If you want to see and feel magic first hand, read a book to your kid before bedtime. —Richard Due”
― Richard Due

tags: bedtime, child, magic, parent, reading, tales

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#11

“There is a value to books—unhackable, paper books—that measures far beyond mere ink and paper.”
― Richard Due

tags: bookstores, libraries

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#12

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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#13

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

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#14

“History is always older.
—Black Fez axiom”
― Richard Due, Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy

tags: action, adventure, humor, science-fiction, steampunk

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#15

“Never mess with the Fez.” —Heather Peaceout, Black Fez, Second Order”
― Richard Due, Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy

tags: action, adventure, humor, science-fiction, steampunk, teen, young-adult

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#16

“You’d be surprised what an eleven-year-old can get away with.” —Tuppence”
― Richard Due, Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy

tags: action, adventure, humor, science-fiction, steampunk, teen, young-adult

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#17

“Do not stare directly into his eyes!” she warned, in an accent I couldn’t place.
“Why not?” I said, but she was already too late. I was staring directly into his eyes too.
“Because they are dreamy, and endless, and magical. And then when you learn what a terrible boy he is, your heart will turn into a black husk of doom.”
I blinked off the spell of the boy’s eyes.
“Wait, what?” —Nimet Simit and Willa Snap, conversing on the power of Ravenlock Sward's eyes.”
― Richard Due, Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy

tags: action, adventure, humor, science-fiction, steampunk, teen, young-adult

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#18

“Just a cat! Just a cat! I am the stealer of breaths, the walker of shadows, the keeper of nine lives.” —the Magnificent Lady Grayson of the Silky White Underbelly, or Just Grayson for Short”
― Richard Due, Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy

tags: action, adventure, humor, science-fiction, steampunk, teen, young-adult

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#19

“I must warn you, my story isn’t a pretty one: abductions, time-traveling dragons, the Order of the Black Fez, highly verbal cats, a secret invisible city, condescending robots (condescending means they talk to you like you’re an Idiot; wait, is it condescending of me to explain what condescending means?), and that’s just for starters. —Willa Snap”
― Richard Due, Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy

tags: action, adventure, humor, science-fiction, steampunk, teen, young-adult

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#20

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

tags: confidence, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, life, life-philosophy, optimism, power-of-words

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#21

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

tags: deceit, honesty, hypocrisy, morality, shock, top-8

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#22

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi

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#23

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#24

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

tags: katharine-hepburn

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#25

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom

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#26

“Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

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#27

“Knowledge is what turns magic from gold into lead. —an I.O.I. axiom”
― Richard Due

tags: axiom, gold, knowledge, lead, magic, science

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