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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“It has been said that necessity is the mother of invention. In the same vein, desperation is the father of compromise, panic is the sister of slapdash improvisation, and despair is the second cousin of quiet apathy. By that reckoning, dinner was a dismal family reunion.”
― J. Zachary Pike, Son of a Liche

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
― Joss Whedon

“I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Can I know that mine was a foolish, innocent world, a world of delusion and feeling and ridiculous dreams - a world of music - and still love it?

Endlessly, effortlessly.”
― Peter Goldsworthy, Maestro

“Courage does not always roar. Valor does not always shine.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“A weak mind is a malleable one. Once it is convinced it has been lied to, it begins to lie to itself. Once persuaded that it is hated, it becomes hateful. Once made to fear violence, it becomes violent.”
― J. Zachary Pike, Son of a Liche