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    Augustine of Hippo
    “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
    ― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
    tags: christ, christianity, desire, god, heart, jesus, longing, peace, religion, rest, restlessness
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Please,' she said, 'You're so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I'd rather be eaten by you than fed by anyone else.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Russell Banks
    “Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
    ― Russell Banks, Continental Drift
    tags: books
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    Rachel Hartman
    “How dare the world be beautiful when I was so horrifying?”
    ― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina
    tags: seraphina
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    William Goldman
    “Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: cynics, humor, life, romantics, writing
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    William Goldman
    “Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: buttercup, garden, heart, hidden-treasure, love, secret, the-princess-bride, walls, william-goldman
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    Ovid
    “Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.”
    ― Ovid
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    Douglas Adams
    “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humour
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    Douglas Adams
    “If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: egotism, zaphod-beeblebrox
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    Roshani Chokshi
    “It’s bad to be a dragon.”
    “Says who? Nothing wrong with a little bit of viciousness. Would you rather be a dove or a dragon?”
    ― Roshani Chokshi, The Star-Touched Queen
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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
    tags: babies, children, love, motherhood
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: authors, story, writing
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    Jandy Nelson
    “I didn’t know you could get buried in your own silence.”
    ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: trust
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Abraham Verghese
    “To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.”
    ― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
    tags: seductive, self-confidence
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: drinking
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    Silvia Moreno-Garcia
    “She was but a girl from nowhere. Let the heroes save the world, save kings who must regain their crowns. Live, live, she wanted to live, and there was a way.”
    ― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow
    tags: living
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    Susanna Clarke
    “Birds are not difficult to understand. Their behaviour tells me what they are thinking. Generally it runs along the lines of: Is this food? Is this? What about this? This might be food. I am almost certain that this is. Or occasionally: It is raining. I do not like it.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
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    Meister Eckhart
    “When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.”
    ― Meister Eckhart
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    Richard Powers
    “The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.”
    ― Richard Powers, The Overstory
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  • #23
    Richard Powers
    “What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.”
    ― Richard Powers, The Overstory
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