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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “Why are you crying?"
    "Because," she whispered, her voice shaking, "you remind me of what the world ought to be. What the world can be.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “And so Tamlin unwittingly led the High Lady of the Night Court into the heart of his territory.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
    tags: feyre, high-lady, night-court, rhysand, tamlin
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “It's a rare person to face who they are and not run from it - not be broken by it.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “To whatever end.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows
    tags: aelin-ashryver-galathynius, fae, queen-of-terrasen, rowaelin, rowan-whitethorn, to-whatever-end
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  • #7
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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  • #8
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: books, library, reading
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  • #10
    Laini Taylor
    “It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: dreaming, dreams, goals, impossible
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    Laini Taylor
    “He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: laini-taylor, read, reading, strange-the-dreamer
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  • #12
    Laini Taylor
    “He looked him right in the eyes and saw a man who was great and good and human, who had done extraordinary things and terrible things and been broken and reassembled as a shell, only then to do the bravest thing of all: He had kept on living, though there are easier paths to take.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: fighter, life, survivor
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    Laini Taylor
    “It was a different life out here, but make no mistake: Lazlo was every bit the dreamer he had always been, if not more. He might have left his books, but he carried all his stories with him.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: books, dreams, stories
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    Laini Taylor
    “What's a horizon?' Lazlo asked, straight-faced. 'Is it like the end of an aisle of books?”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: bibliophile, horizon, reader, reading
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  • #15
    Laini Taylor
    “We're all on the same side. Even her. You can be on the same side and have different ideas.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares
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    Laini Taylor
    “Once upon a time, a sister made a vow she didn't know how to break, and it broke her instead.

    Once upon a time, a girl did the impossible, but she did it just a little too late.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares
    tags: dream, girl, love, sisterhood, sisters, the-impossible
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    Laini Taylor
    “You needn't trouble yourself. He's only a librarian.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: laini-taylor, librarian, strange-the-dreamer
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    Laini Taylor
    “You should have seen them, Thyon said. "It was surreal." As an afterthought, he added, "Though I can't believe none of them rode the dragon."
    "I know!" said Ruza. "What was Azareen's thinking, choosing a winged horse when she could have a dragon?"
    "I don't think she was really focused on which creature was best," said Tzara.
    "You shouldn't have to focus on it," said Ruza. "It's instinctive. Dragons are always best.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “Courage of the heart is very rare,” she said with sudden calm. “Let it guide you.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
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  • #20
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Do good works or commission an opera house or just take it out and gaze at it longingly when you think of the handsome prince you might have made your own. For the record, I favor the latter option, preferably paired with copious tears and the recitation of bad poetry.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
    tags: nikolai-lantsov, sturmhond
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    Laini Taylor
    “He wasn't an alchemist, or a hero. He was a librarian, and a dreamer. He was a reader, and the unsung expert on a long-lost city no one cared a thing about.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: books, dreamer, dreaming, librarian
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  • #22
    Holly Black
    “There you are," Cardan says as I take my place beside him. "How has the night been going for you? Mine has been full of dull conversation about how my head is going to find itself on a spike.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
    tags: cardan, faeries, fantasy, holly-black, i-love-them, jude, sarcastic
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  • #23
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
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  • #24
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
    tags: ideas, libraries, sarah-j-maas, throne-of-glass
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  • #25
    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading
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  • #26
    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: literature, music, poetry
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  • #27
    E.E. Cummings
    “To be nobody but
    yourself in a world
    which is doing its best day and night to make you like
    everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
    which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: poetry
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  • #28
    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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  • #29
    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: friendship, love
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  • #30
    Neil Gaiman
    “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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