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    Helen Hollick
    “We had so many dreams as children. Where do they go when we grow? Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life? Or do we lose them, leave them behind us in the dust, for new children to find and take up?”
    ― Helen Hollick, The Kingmaking
    tags: dreams, growing-up, helen-hollick
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    Helen Hollick
    “It never leaves, not with someone we love. Their presence burns too vivid in our memories. Happen that is as it should be, for otherwise we would too easy forget.”
    ― Helen Hollick, The Kingmaking
    tags: love, memories
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: importance, kiss, kissing
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    Tennessee Williams
    “Time is the longest distance between two places.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
    tags: distance, time
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    Terry Goodkind
    “I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted, can bring to readers a connection to the wonder of life. A good novel shows how life can and ought to be lived. It not only entertains but energizes and uplifts readers.”
    ― Terry Goodkind
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    Patricia A. McKillip
    “Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
    ― Patricia A. McKillip
    tags: imagination
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    Helen Hollick
    “Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.”
    ― Helen Hollick, The Kingmaking
    tags: love, marriage, respect, trust, understanding
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.”
    ― George R.R. Martin
    tags: a-song-of-ice-and-fire
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    Philip Roth
    “Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
    ― Philip Roth
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Then...there was no sorcery?" Lannister snorted. "Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: sorcery
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    George R.R. Martin
    “All dwarfs may be bastards yet not all bastards are dwarfs.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: tyrion-lannister
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    George R.R. Martin
    “And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: a-clash-of-kings, a-song-of-ice-and-fire, jon-snow
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    George R.R. Martin
    “So many vows... they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It’s too much. No matter what you do, you’re forsaking one vow or the other.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
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    George R.R. Martin
    “My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
    tags: sansa-stark
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    Irving Stone
    “There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
    ― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense
    tags: books, friendship
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    “Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross.”
    ― Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur
    tags: arthurian, england, hope, immortality, king-arthur, matter-of-britain, resurrection
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    Terry McMillan
    “Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
    ― Terry McMillan , Disappearing Acts
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths, and on its blade was traced a device of seven stars set between the crescent Moon and rayed Sun, and about them was written many runes; for Aragorn son of Arathorn was going to war upon the marches of Mordor. Very bright was that sword when it was made whole again; the light of the sun shone redly in it, and the light of the moon shone cold, its edge was hard and keen. And Aragorn gave it a new name and called it Andúril, Flame of the West.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: andúril, aragorn
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    Mary Stewart
    “Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more…”
    ― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills
    tags: arthur, fate, merlin, mordred
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    Selma Lagerlöf
    “Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
    ― Selma Lagerlöf
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “People in general," he said, "only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “Love is the most selfish of all the passions.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
    tags: love, passions, selfishness
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded twice.
    "In general, people only ask for advice," he said "that they may not follow it or if they should follow it that they may have somebody to blame for having given it".”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: dreams, fantasy, life, living, pain, suffering
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “All for one and one for all.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
    tags: mottos, unity
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    Winston Graham
    “It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings,' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them...”
    ― Winston Graham, Ross Poldark
    tags: broken-heart, love, poldark
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