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    Chad Harbach
    “She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights.”
    ― Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
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    Neil Gaiman
    “So, having found a lady, could you not have come to her aid, or left her alone? Why drag her into your foolishness?'

    'Love,' he explained.

    She looked at him with eyes the blue of the sky. 'I hope you choke on it,' she said, flatly.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
    tags: the-star, tristan
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    Neil Gaiman
    “She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
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    George R.R. Martin
    “I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “I have seen the dark universe yawning
    Where the black planets roll without aim,
    Where they roll in their horror unheeded,
    Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.”
    ― H. P. Lovecraft, Nemesis
    tags: dark-universe, horror
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    William Shakespeare
    “I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger.
    'No, and if he were I would burn my library.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
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    Margaret Rogerson
    “Why do we desire, above all other things, that which has the greatest power to destroy us?”
    ― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens
    tags: destruction, gadfly, love
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    Margaret Rogerson
    “No. You surpass us all." Beside me she looked colorless and frail. "You are like a living rose among wax flowers. We may last forever, but you bloom brighter and smell sweeter, and draw blood with your thorns.”
    ― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens
    tags: an-enchantment-of-ravens, fantasy
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: identity
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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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    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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    Neil Gaiman
    “How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline.
    "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave."
    "Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline.
    "Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: dark, humor, mothers
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    Diana Wynne Jones
    “I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
    ― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle
    tags: happily-ever-after, love
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    Diana Wynne Jones
    “Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk."
    "Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him.”
    ― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle
    tags: calcifer, drunk, howl, sober
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    Diana Wynne Jones
    “I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.”
    ― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle
    tags: fantasy, fiction, humor, young-adult
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    Diana Wynne Jones
    “My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.”
    ― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle
    tags: humor, humour, lying, salvation
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    Diana Wynne Jones
    “A heart's a heavy burden.”
    ― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle
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    Margaret Rogerson
    “It was always wise to be polite to books, whether or not they could hear you.”
    ― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns
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    Margaret Rogerson
    “Of course ." A wicked gleam entered his eyes. "But I only turn girls into salamanders on Tuesdays. Luckily for you, it´s a Wednesday, which is the day I drink a goblet of orphan´s blood for supper.”
    ― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns
    tags: humor, nathaniel-thorn, sorcery-of-thorns
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “...do yourself a favor and learn to grab life by the balls, dear. Don’t be so tied up in trying to do the right thing when the smart thing is so painfully clear.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Woman?” She chuckled. “Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man.” Dany met his stare. “I am Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, the Unburnt, Mother of Dragons, khaleesi to Drogo’s riders, and queen of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
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    George R.R. Martin
    “It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
    tags: a-storm-of-swords, asoiaf, fantasy, grrm
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"

    Her broad homely face turned red. "Yes."

    "Oh, good," Jaime said. "I only rescue maidens.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
    tags: banter, brienne-of-tarth, humor, jaime-lannister, rescue
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    Megan Abbott
    “There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.”
    ― Megan Abbott, Dare Me
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
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    Virginia Woolf
    “What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement?
    It is Clarissa, he said.
    For there she was.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
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    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife
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    Jane Austen
    “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: love, romance
    7152 likes



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