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#1

“That's the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark; but play boldly and no one will question you.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

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#2

“In Caverna lies were an art and everybody was an artist, even young children.”
― Frances Hardinge, A Face Like Glass

8 likes

#3

“We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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#4

“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

tags: freedom, stories

1796 likes

#5

“When power is scarce, a little of it is tempting.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

56 likes

#6

“Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: labels, manners

1832 likes

#7

“She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why. That can be embarrassing.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

9 likes

#8

“We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: happiness

13 likes

#9

“Creation sprawls like a dewed and willing maiden outside your window awaiting only the lechery of your senses...”
― Glen Duncan

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#10

“For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like is the discovery of how unlikable what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like more than you like liking what you do...
[Lucifer]”
― Glen Duncan

tags: lucifer, satire, theology

26 likes

#11

“The road to Hell, you say, is paved with good intentions. Charming. But actually it's paved with intriguing questions.”
― Glen Duncan, I, Lucifer

8 likes

#12

“All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.”
― Karen Lord, Redemption in Indigo

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#13

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems

tags: blossoms, cherry-blossoms, haiku, japan, life, poetry, spring

2372 likes

#14

“Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

tags: beauty, children, classic, nature, spring

1411 likes

#15

“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

tags: a-moveable-feast, hemingway, spring

1023 likes

#16

“Because the birdsong might be pretty,
But it's not for you they sing,
And if you think my winter is too cold,
You don't deserve my spring.”
― Erin Hanson

tags: beautiful, nature, spring, winter

585 likes

#17

“I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing. And sweet to remember. We are nearer to Spring than we were in September. I heard a bird sing in the dark of December.”
― Oliver Herford

tags: bird, dark, december, magical, remember, september, sing, spring

189 likes

#18

“Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: spring

90 likes

#19

“And the Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems

tags: poetry, spring

83 likes

#20

“So the nymphs they spoke,
we kissed and laid.
By noontime’s hour
our love was made.

Like braided chains of crocus stems,
we lay entwined, I laid with them.
Our breath, one glassy, tideless sea,
our bodies draping wearily,
we slept, I slept so lucidly,
with hopes to stay this memory.”
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

tags: coming-of-spring, love, nymphs, poetry, sleep, spring

37 likes

#21

“Dead my old fine hopes
And dry my dreaming but still...
Iris, blue each spring”
― Shushiki, Japanese Haiku

tags: haiku, hope, spring

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