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#1

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: humor, idleness, inspirational

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#2

“The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for consequence.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

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#3

“Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

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#4

“The air changes. Then that invisible spider crawls up my spine, tickling the hairs behind my neck.

I have come to know this spider these last couple of years. It whispers there’s something else in the room, breathing with you, watching you, grinning at you.

I hate that damn spider.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Suffering

tags: ghost, horror, premonition

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#5

“I crawled into my books and pulled the pages up over my head.
(A Monstrous Regiment of Women)”
― Laurie R King

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#6

“Interpreting the Bible without training is a bit like finding a specific address in a foreign city with neither map nor knowledge of the language. You might stumble upon the right answer, but in the meantime you've put yourself at the mercy of every ignoramus in town, with no way of telling the savant from the fool.”
― Laurie R. King, A Monstrous Regiment of Women

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#7

“Oddly enough, the very considerations that had made marriage impossible for him were mirrored in my own being: a rabidly independent nature, an impatience with lesser minds, total unconventionality, and the horror of being saddled with someone who would need cosseting and protection—the”
― Laurie R. King, A Monstrous Regiment of Women

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#8

“I could never, I knew then, lose myself "in love." Margery had accused me of coldness, and she was right, but she was also wrong: For me, for always, the paramount organ of passion was the mind. Unnatural, unbalanced, perhaps, but it was true: Without intellect, there could be no love.”
― Laurie R. King, A Monstrous Regiment of Women

tags: feminism, feminist, feminist-quotes, independence, intellect, love, mystery, passion, romance, sherlock

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#9

“I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself, mindless of others, but without the passion and the deep-down, inbred love for the good in humanity that was the basis of his entire career. He loved the humanity that could not understand or fully accept him; I, in the midst of the same human race, became a thinking machine.”
― Laurie R. King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice

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#10

“Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.”
― Laurie R. King, O Jerusalem

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#11

“Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines and details straight at one's daily life, leaving a person flat and gasping at its passage.”
― Laurie R King

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#12

“He said nothing. Very sarcastically.”
― Laurie R. King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice

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#13

“I was merely going to say that I hope you realise that guilt is a poor foundation for a life, without other motivations beside it.”
― Laurie R. King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice

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#14

“Moments of pure relaxation were rare for me. There was always the nagging of books unread, work undone, time a-wasting.”
― Laurie R. King, A Letter of Mary

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#15

“I dislike the idea of a murderer employing children,' said Holmes darkly. ‘It is, I agree, bad for their morals, and interferes with their sleep.’ ‘And their schooling,’ added Holmes sententiously.”
― Laurie R. King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice

tags: education, humor

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#16

“You did tell me what a very superior sort of mind your friend has. What a pity he was born trapped in a man's body.”
― Laurie R. King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice

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#17

“Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century.”
― Laurie R. King, A Letter of Mary

tags: feminism, humor, weakness, women

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#18

“Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how utterly revolting, and I turned my mind firmly to the problem at hand.”
― Laurie R. King, A Letter of Mary

tags: feminism, feminist, feminist-quotes, independence, maternal, sensible

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#19

“You see why I married her, Mycroft? The exquisite juxtaposition of ladylike threads and backhanded compliments proved irresistible.”
― Laurie R. King, A Letter of Mary

tags: marriage, relationships, sarcasm

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#20

“Loki was trying to look serious, but even so, he was smiling at the corners of his mouth. It was not a reassuring smile.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

tags: loki, mischievous, mouth, reassuring, serious, smile

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#21

“Too many children have suffered. Too many families have been broken. Too many girls have grown up alone. Or not at all.
I won’t let them ruin anyone else.”
― K.A. Wiggins, Blind the Eyes

tags: dystopian, family, inspirational, justice, protective-hero, resistance, vengeance

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#22

“Everyone in this house hides behind closed doors. We build fortresses to bar people from scaling the walls and getting in. But even with the amount of time we spend sheltering ourselves there's no way of concealing our problems.”
― Lilliam Rivera, The Education of Margot Sánchez

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#23

“What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

tags: clichés, dignity, empowerment, freedom, gender, girls, self-determination, stereotypes

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#24

“What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

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#25

“I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

tags: feelings, honesty, morality, sentiments

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#26

“I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.”
“Yes,” said Harriet, “but I am one of them. I disconcert myself very much. I never know what I do feel.”
“I don’t think that matters, provided one doesn’t try to persuade one’s self into appropriate feelings.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

tags: aloofness, detachment, emotion, feelings, individuality, reserve, self-confidence, self-truth

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#27

“Incidentally, one has to be very careful with that ‘Bridegroom’ imagery. It is so very apt to land one in Male and Female Principles, Eleusis, and the womb of the Great Mother. And that sort of thing doesn’t make much appeal to well-balanced women, who look on it as just another example of men’s hopeless romanticism about sex, and who are apt either to burst out laughing or sniff a faint smell of drains.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers

tags: christianity, feminine, masculine, priesthood, women-s-ordination

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