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Ashley Laughlin
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The way one does research into nonexistent history is to tell the story and find out what happened.
“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.” ('The Way of Kings')”
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“A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.”
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“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
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“We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.”
― Lord of Chaos
― Lord of Chaos
“What she had begun to feel was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.”
― The Earthsea Quartet
― The Earthsea Quartet
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