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“So what's the point, then, if we can't be happy? Why are we doing any of this?"
"Oh, there's definitely happiness," Jack said, turning his back on the ocean and looking at her. "But it's just about moments, not ever-afters." He grinned. "Like when you're right in the middle of the ocean with your friends, with no one trying to kill you in any kind of horrifying way. You have to appreciate these moments when they happen, 'cause obviously we don't get many of them.”
― The Half Upon a Time Trilogy (Boxed Set): Half Upon a Time; Twice Upon a Time; Once Upon the End
"Oh, there's definitely happiness," Jack said, turning his back on the ocean and looking at her. "But it's just about moments, not ever-afters." He grinned. "Like when you're right in the middle of the ocean with your friends, with no one trying to kill you in any kind of horrifying way. You have to appreciate these moments when they happen, 'cause obviously we don't get many of them.”
― The Half Upon a Time Trilogy (Boxed Set): Half Upon a Time; Twice Upon a Time; Once Upon the End
“Jack turned red,"I kinda let a princess die."
His grandfather groaned. "You do realize that's not a good thing to do, right?" the old man asked.
"So I'm told.”
― The Half Upon a Time Trilogy (Boxed Set): Half Upon a Time; Twice Upon a Time; Once Upon the End
His grandfather groaned. "You do realize that's not a good thing to do, right?" the old man asked.
"So I'm told.”
― The Half Upon a Time Trilogy (Boxed Set): Half Upon a Time; Twice Upon a Time; Once Upon the End
“The ship itself was about as long as a football field, or some other really long thing, given that may honestly could never remember how long football fields were. A hundred yards? That was like three hundred feet, wasn't it? The boat did seem long, but she was over five feet tall herself, and that's be like sixty of her end to end. Only sixty? Or was that a lot of herselves? Stupid analogies. The boat was big, that should cover it.”
― Twice Upon a Time
― Twice Upon a Time
“Embrace the impossible! Find the magic within! BE MORE FICTIONAL.”
― Weltenspringer
― Weltenspringer
“Kiel just winked”
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“But we don't read about you because we're bored, or just to amuse ourselves. We read about you to be with you, to walk in someone else's shoes, to experience another life. Some of those lives are hard, and others are easy, but we're with you every step of the way. We read about people in impossible situations because we're dealing with horrible things ourselves, in our lives. And you going through your story helps us with ours, no matter how yours ends. Though I do think we both like a happy ending, don't we?”
― Story Thieves Complete Collection (Boxed Set): Story Thieves; The Stolen Chapters; Secret Origins; Pick the Plot; Worlds Apart
― Story Thieves Complete Collection (Boxed Set): Story Thieves; The Stolen Chapters; Secret Origins; Pick the Plot; Worlds Apart
“I was actually thinking about writing, maybe," Owen said. "About Charm?" Kiel asked, raising an eyebrow. "No?" Owen said, probably a bit too fast too be believable. "I have some other ideas.”
― Story Thieves Collection Books 1-3 (Bookmark inside!): Story Thieves; The Stolen Chapters; Secret Origins
― Story Thieves Collection Books 1-3 (Bookmark inside!): Story Thieves; The Stolen Chapters; Secret Origins
“Kiel pulled his arm out of Owen's grasp and stepped forward. "Where is she?" he shouted, angrier than Owen had ever seen him”
― Story Thieves Collection Books 1-3 (Bookmark inside!): Story Thieves; The Stolen Chapters; Secret Origins
― Story Thieves Collection Books 1-3 (Bookmark inside!): Story Thieves; The Stolen Chapters; Secret Origins
“Once upon a time, Jack wouldn't have been caught dead in a princess rescue.”
― Half Upon a Time
― Half Upon a Time
“We read about you to be with you, to walk in someone else's shoes, to experience another life. Some of those lives are hard, and others are easy, but we're with you every step of the way. We read about people in impossible situations because we're dealing with horrible things ourselves, in our lives. And you going through your story helps us with ours, no matter how yours ends.”
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“You can’t know how amazing this is, how it makes up for everything. I knew that there was something like this out there, because if there wasn’t, then life is just dental floss and vegetables and word problems. That can’t be everything.”
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“This was all such a waste of time, and after that last fight with what was apparently supposed to be a troll, his arm really hurt.”
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“He realized that it wouldn’t be much longer before the trees picked themselves up and migrated to the warmer south, leaving their dead, leafless brothers behind.”
― Half Upon a Time
― Half Upon a Time
“A what, now?”
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“Thank you, Pig Keeper," Phillip said, and placed a few gold coins in the boy's hand. The boy's eyes went wide as he felt the weight of the gold,even as he absently corrected his prince. "Uh, Assistant Pig Keeper, actually.”
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“This time the thought was so powerful, he couldn’t even question it. Without a second thought, he leaped out from the wall just ahead of the elevator car.”
― The Revenge of Magic
― The Revenge of Magic
“Owen is Owen. No one gets to tell him how to live his life. Not you, not me, and not some author nobody. Owen gets to choose how his life story goes, and no one, let alone his idiot fictional self, gets to take that away from him.”
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“Nobody wrote "The End" in Story Thieves: The Stolen Chapters, and placed it on his shelf.”
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“What happens this time, a hospital visit?"
"Whoah!" said Cyrus. "See, now you must be reading my mind, because that's exactly why!”
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"Whoah!" said Cyrus. "See, now you must be reading my mind, because that's exactly why!”
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“I'm stupider than a LOT of people give me credit for!”
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