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#1

“In winter, back in his homeland, he’d liked to roll in the snow as dragon, just to upset its soft perfection. Luceran was like that snow.”
― Ariana Nash, The Black Prince

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#2

“The human mind wasn’t fragile, but it was mortal, and once it broke, it was gone for good.”
― R. Lee Smith, Heat

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#3

“We know we are alive and know we will die. We also know we will suffer during our lives before suffering—slowly or quickly—as we draw near to death. This is the knowledge we “enjoy” as the most intelligent organisms to gush from the womb of nature. And being so, we feel shortchanged if there is nothing else for us than to survive, reproduce, and die. We want there to be more to it than that, or to think there is. This is the tragedy: Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are—hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.”
― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror

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#4

“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
― Erin Hanson

tags: freedom, inspiration, poetry

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#5

“Who says paper worlds
Are an escape from what is real?
As though the lives trapped in their binding
Are not ones that make you feel.
For sometimes our greatest lessons
Come from those with ink for skin,
Who reach beyond the page
To take our hand and pull us in.”
― Erin Hanson

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#6

“Do not hold your breath for anyone,
Do not wish your lungs to be still,
It may delay the cracks from spreading,
But eventually they will.
Sometimes to keep yourself together
You must allow yourself to leave,
Even if breaking your own heart
Is what it takes to let you breathe.”
― Erin Hanson

tags: abuse, breaking-free, freedom, independance, leaving, relationships, toxic-relationships

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#7

“Her soul is a kaliedoscope
Bursting with every shade and hue
But shift your gaze ever so slightly
And she's something entirely new.”
― Erin Hanson

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#8

“My mother always told me
No monster lived beneath my bed,
But she had failed to warn me
It laid on top of it instead.”
― Erin Hanson

tags: monster, self

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#9

“There is a fable in the forest
Whispered by the branches, as they blow.
A tale about the truth of leaving
Things that no longer help you grow.
For on the surface it looks simple,
Like you only need lace your boots,
But there is nothing quite as painful
As untangling your roots.
And proof is found in tree stumps
Of the price some pay to flee,
That they would cut their lives in half
To cut the time before they're free.
Yet from the little left behind
Life has been known to grow again,
For unless you take your roots
A part of you will still remain.”
― Erin Hanson

tags: new-beginnings

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#10

“I lend everyone my ear,
But nobody my heart,
And I sure would like to change that,
But I don't know where to start,
I smile more to myself,
Than the world will ever see,
Because the only time my smile is real,
Is in my own company,
People don't know how I feel,
They never even ask,
It seems I have fooled them all,
They can't see past my mask,
If they were with me late at night,
When the world was still asleep,
Maybe I'd let them sort,
Through the secrets that I keep,
But when I wake at 2am,
Nobody is ever there,
And I learnt that why I hide my heart,
Is because no-one really cares.”
― Erin Hanson

tags: alone, heart, loneliness

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#11

“The irony of life
Is our greatest fear is to forget,
Yet it's the only certain fate
That anything has ever met.
We know one day our earth
Will find itself victim to time,
That nothing will be left
To tell of your story or mine,
And still through life we rush
Scrambling for something to remember,
Perish the thought that ash be ash
And not the memory of an ember.”
― Erin Hanson

tags: earth, endings, forgetting, irony, life, remembering

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#12

“Your blindness to my downfall,
Has gone too far to be a joke,
As I stand ablaze before you,
And you tell me you smell smoke.”
― Erin Hanson

tags: fire, ignorance

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#13

“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

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#14

“The head is too wise. The heart is all fire.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

tags: gansey, gwenllian, the-raven-cycle, the-raven-king

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#15

“Humans were so circular; they lived the same slow cycles of joy and misery over and over, never learning. Every lesson in the universe had to be taught billions of times, and it never stuck.

Maybe it was good that the world forgot every lesson, every good and bad memory, every triumph and failure, all of it dying with each generation. Perhaps this cultural amnesia spared them all. Perhaps if they remembered everything, hope would die instead.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

tags: adam-parrish, the-raven-cycle

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#16

“I don't care to be pretty," Blue shot back hotly, "I care to look on the outside like I look on the inside.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

tags: blue, inspire, pretty, the-raven-cycle

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#17

“More than anything, the journal wanted. It wanted more than it could hold, more than words could describe, more than diagrams could illustrate. Longing burst from the pages, in every frantic line and every hectic sketch and every dark-printed definition. There was something pained and melancholy about it.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: blue, gansey, stiefvater, the-raven-boys, the-raven-cycle

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#18

“He was so much more dangerous when he wasn't angry.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

tags: bllb, blue-lily-lily-blue, ronan-lynch, the-raven-cycle, trc

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#19

“Depending on where you began the story, it was about Noah Czerny.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

tags: maggie-stiefvater, noah-czerny, the-raven-cycle, the-raven-king

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#20

“She drifted towards the bedroom, on her way to have a bath or take a nap or start a war.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

tags: blue-lily-lily-blue, piper-greenmantle, the-raven-cycle

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#21

“Ronan did not smoke; he preferred his habits with hangovers.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: drinking, habits, lynch, ronan-lynch, smoking, the-raven-boys, the-raven-cycle

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#22

“It was true that Blue was just shy of five feet and it was also true that she hadn't eaten her greens, but she'd done the research and she didn't think the two were related.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

tags: blue, blue-lily-lily-blue, eat-your-greens, short, the-raven-cycle

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#23

“Adam translated, "Not death, but his brother, sleep.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

tags: dreams, the-raven-cycle

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#24

“It shouldn't have happened at all, but their friendship had been cemented in only the time it took to get to school that morning - Adam demonstrating how to fasten the Camaro's ground wire more securely, Gansey lifting Adam's bike halfway into the trunk so they could ride to school together, Adam confessing he worked at a mechanic's to put himself through Aglionby, and Gansey turning to the passenger seat and asking, "What do you know about Welsh kings?”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

tags: adam-parrish, maggie-stiefvater, richard-gansey-iii, the-dream-thieves, the-raven-cycle

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#25

“People shout when they don’t have the vocabulary to whisper.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: maggie-stiefvater, the-raven-boys, the-raven-cycle

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#26

“Gansey sighed, small and quiet and ragged, like he hadn't meant to let it escape. She shifted her gaze from the window to the side of his head, watching him watch instead. He pressed his thumb against his lower lip-this was Gansey, that gesture- and then he swallowed. It was, she thought, just as she felt when she looked at the stars, when she walked in Cabeswater.”
― Maggie Stiefvater

tags: blue-sargent, bluesey, gansey, maggie-stiefvater, richard-campbell-gansey-iii, tdt, the-dream-thieves, the-raven-cycle

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#27

“The two of them were on perpendicular paths, not parallel ones, and eventually, they'd have to go different ways.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

tags: adam-parrish, maggie-stiefvater, the-dream-thieves, the-raven-cycle

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#28

“There were creatures you didn’t want to meet in person if you weren’t with Ronan Lynch. There were places you might get trapped forever if you weren’t with Ronan Lynch. It was feral and confusing, but in the end, it followed one rule: Ronan Lynch. His safety, his desires, his thoughts. That was Lindenmere’s only true north.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

tags: the-raven-cycle

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#29

“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: misattributed, misattributed-lao-tzu

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