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#1

“While there is tea, there is hope.”
― Arthur Wing Pinero, Sweet Lavender - A Comedy in Three Acts.

tags: hope, tea

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#2

“A lonely person on a college campus is never more than a few minutes and a bad decision from company.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

tags: bad-decisions, college, lonely

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#3

“She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome Christmas movie.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

tags: christmas, flower, girl, love, romance, tecnhicolor

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#4

“Ethically, she couldn't cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

tags: bacon, carnivore, ethical, ethics, food, hamburgers, suffering, vegetarian

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#5

“I missed you,” she cried into him. Standing on top of the snow gave him an additional few inches on her and she rested her head against his chest. She could hear nothing within, just her own heartbeat echoing.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

tags: hearts, love, romance, romantic

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#6

“I think it simply comes down to fantasy being the language I speak. While I cannot get into epic sword and sorcery, I see the world as having the potential to be slightly off-kilter. I have run into people who do not quite seem human – though of course they are – and have been privy to coincidences that almost make me believe in magic. Fantasy is sometimes just asking yourself, “Well, what if you are wrong? What if the world doesn’t work the way you think? What would that mean?”
― Thomm Quackenbush

tags: fantasy, language, magic, reality

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#7

“In the pause that followed, Shane understood why people said their hearts broke. She always thought it was a weak metaphor of strong emotion. She could feel each bit of shrapnel from her heart stab at her stomach and lungs. Her knees gave out beneath her as she heard the voice tell her what she already knew in her fragments of cardiac tissue.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

tags: heart, heartbreak

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#8

“Keep to the 'I-statements' and discuss your feelings, she lectured herself. I think, I feel. Don't be accusatory. Don't tell him that he is an insecure prick who should back off before you deck him. Instead, say, 'I feel you are acting like an insecure prick who should back off before I deck you.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

tags: communicate, communication, fight, fighting

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#9

“Being certain one is alive isn't something to which one pays mind. If you could ask the question, you were fine. If you could not, hopefully you had a cozy coffin.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

tags: alive, coffin, dead, death, life

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#10

“It seemed inequitable at best that one could and did gain a reputation for things that left one both physically and emotionally unsatisfied.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

tags: reputation, sex

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#11

“Like the discovery of most things - love and religion especially - she maintained the child's arrogant wonder than no one had understood it before her and, even if they had, they could not embrace it as passionately as she.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

tags: discovery, religion, wonder

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#12

“If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

tags: belief, religion, science, superstition, turtle

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#13

“None of us just pop into the world fully formed, so it's the little facts that make us.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

tags: facts, identity, self

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#14

“Her lips are like pillows of warm glass. It is strange to find her resistant for even a second, since she has been the kisser and not the kissed. It wasn't like the last time, which felt fumbling and unnatural. That time wasn't off-putting, just like kissing one's sister. This kiss, my kiss, was tingling sweetness, electric apple blossoms.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

tags: affection, apple, kiss, kisses, kissing, love, romance

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#15

“His kisses were so hungry and male, which isn't bad. Every kiss said he could never have enough, but he wasn't going to stop trying. They were so hormonal. I wanted his sugar roughness. Girl's kisses are deliberate and polished. When she kisses me - when I kiss her - she doesn't want me. She has me and knows it.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

tags: bisexual, bisexuality, kiss, kisses, love, romance

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#16

“Childhood is this time of magic and monsters; hoping for one and fearing the other... The worst part of being a kid is discovering which one exists... So, I chose to believe in magic.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

tags: childhood, fear, hope, magic, monsters

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#17

“Reason had no place to crash once Emotion came to town.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

tags: emotion, reason, sense

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#18

“The seed of an urban legend finding fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

tags: imagination, tragedy, urban-legend, urban-legends

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#19

“The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them better. But then I write the stuff. Obviously I'm prejudiced.”
― Robin McKinley

tags: fantasy

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#20

“[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.”
― Robin McKinley, The Blue Sword

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#21

“When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.”
― Robin McKinley, Spindle's End

tags: friendship

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#22

“One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the wonderful story in your head is infinitely better, truer, more moving, more fascinating, more perceptive, than anything you're going to manage to get down on paper. (And if you ever think otherwise, then you've turned into an arrogant self-satisfied prat, and should look for another job or another avocation or another weekend activity.) So you have to learn to live with the fact that you're never going to write well enough. Of course that's what keeps you trying -- trying as hard as you can -- which is a good thing.”
― Robin McKinley

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#23

“I don't put up with being messed around, and I don't suffer fools gladly. The short version of that is that I'm a bitch. Trust me, I can provide character references.”
― Robin McKinley, Sunshine

tags: humor

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#24

“Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose. ”
― Robin McKinley, Sunshine

tags: balance, dark, light, magic, reassurance, roses, shadows

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#25

“At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books; and the dreams I confided to my father were of becoming a scholar in good earnest, and going to University. It was unheard-of several shocked governesses were only too quick to tell me, when I spoke a little too boldly -- but my father nodded and smiled and said, 'We'll see.' Since I believed my father could do anything -- except of course make me pretty -- I worked and studied with passionate dedication, lived in hope, and avoided society and mirrors.”
― Robin McKinley, Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

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#26

“And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give me the bucket.”
― Robin McKinley, Chalice

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#27

“One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things.”
― Robin McKinley, The Blue Sword

tags: angry, especially, pace, throw

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#28

“Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.”
― Robin McKinley, Pegasus

tags: adventure, night

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#29

“Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.”
― Robin McKinley, Chalice

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#30

“So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread my favorite novel. Buy eight dozen roses from the best florist in town--the super expensive ones, the ones that smell like roses rather than merely looking like them--and put them all over my apartment. Take a good long look at everyone I love.”
― Robin McKinley, Sunshine

tags: death

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