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#1

“I am beginning to feel the need of a glass of wine to fortify myself against this conversation.”
― Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon

tags: wine

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#2

“I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.”
― Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon

tags: books

178 likes

#3

“It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.”
― Naomi Novik, Tongues of Serpents

tags: leadership

32 likes

#4

“Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it.”
― Naomi Novik, Black Powder War

45 likes

#5

“Gentleness shown once is mercy, shown twice is folly.”
― Naomi Novik, Black Powder War

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#6

“Life has a funny way of waylaying our best-laid plans; life keeps us busy in ways that seem, at the time, more important than self-care and introspection.”
― Emily Littlejohn, Inherit the Bones

tags: self-care

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#7

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

50616 likes

#8

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

101647 likes

#9

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

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#10

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: dumbledore

21633 likes

#11

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: humanity, kindness, relationships

11062 likes

#12

“What else is a child, but hope? Hope for the future, hope for one's own salvation, hope for a tomorrow that shines as bright and warm as the best yesterday you can remember.”
― Emily Littlejohn, Inherit the Bones

tags: children, hope, motherhood

2 likes

#13

“Some people spend their entire lives seeing the snow without ever seeing the magic in the existence of one snowflake.”
― Emily Littlejohn, Inherit the Bones

tags: life, magic, snow, time

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#14

“This is what I know about love. That it is tested every day, and what is not renewed is lost. One chooses either to care more or to care less. Once the choice is to care less, then there is no stopping the momentum of goodbye.”
― Helen Humphreys, The Lost Garden

tags: caring, love, renewal

31 likes

#15

“It is light that dismantles each moment, I had thought then. Light proves it one thing or another. Darkness does not judge.”
― Helen Humphreys, The Lost Garden

tags: light-and-darkness

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#16

“Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance.”
― Helen Humphreys, The Lost Garden

tags: inspirational

4 likes

#17

“I have often thought that poetry is a way to name loss, but it cannot accompany one on the journey of loss.”
― Helen Humphreys, The Lost Garden

tags: poetry

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#18

“In the end, I will have to make a choice about how to tell my story....There has to be a moment of going forward, when all the possibilities are left behind.”
― Helen Humphreys, The Lost Garden

tags: choices, writing

3 likes

#19

“The thing about longing is this: It is easy to feel equal to wanting. It is rare to feel equal to having.”
― Helen Humphreys, The Lost Garden

tags: inspirational

1 likes

#20

“When a writer writes, it's as if she holds the sides of her chest apart, exposes her beating heart. And even though everything wants to heal, to close over and protect the heart, the writer must keep it bare, exposed.”
― Helen Humphreys, The Lost Garden

7 likes

#21

“Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.”
― Helen Humphreys, The Lost Garden

tags: death, love, stories

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#22

“... the poetic moment is a static one. It's watching through a window while the action happens elsewhere. And then the poet turns away from the window because the poem is done ... It cannot unflinchingly stare grief down. At some point, by necessity, or design, it must turn away.”
― Helen Humphreys, The Lost Garden

tags: death, grief, poetry

1 likes

#23

“Sometimes our passion is our ruin.”
― Helen Humphreys, The Lost Garden

tags: passion

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#24

“The author is at one end of the experience of writing and the reader is at the other, and the book is the contract between you.”
― Helen Humphreys, The Lost Garden

tags: books, writers, writing

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#25

“So much is learned by seeing how well or how poorly someone accomplishes a job he dislikes.”
― Joseph Boyden, The Orenda

tags: work-ethic

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#26

“I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it ... But there is nothing in this world that needs us for its survival. We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.”
― Joseph Boyden, The Orenda

tags: animals, animals-and-humans

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#27

“No matter how hard they tried, they could never take all their memories with them: the best memories would remain here, between these thin walls.”
― Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française

tags: memories, moving

6 likes

#28

“Hate gives identity. The nigger, the fag, the bitch illuminate the border, illuminate what we ostensibly are not, illuminate the Dream of being white, of being a Man. We name the hated strangers and are thus confirmed in the tribe.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

137 likes

#29

“If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

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#30

“Men such as him do not have to clean up the messes they make, but we have to clean up our own messes, and theirs into the bargain.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

tags: men, women, women-and-men

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