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“According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking.”
― Jonathan Stroud, Ptolemy's Gate

tags: amulet-of-samarkand, bartimaeus-trilogy, jonathan-stroud

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“One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand

tags: amulet-of-samarkand, bartimaeus-trilogy, jonathan-stroud

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#3

“A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.”
― Jonathan Stroud, Ptolemy's Gate

tags: bartimaeus, intelligence

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“Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Ring of Solomon

tags: humor, plan, strategy

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#5

“And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand

tags: humour, luck

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#6

“Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Golem's Eye

tags: bartimaeus

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#7

“Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked with wax, bobbing about in the Red Sea. No one heard my hollers. In the end an old fisherman set me free, by which time I was desperate enough to grant him several wishes. I erupted in the form of a smoking giant, did a few lightning bolts, and bent to ask him his desire. Poor old boy had dropped dead of a heart attack. There should be a moral there, but for the life of me I can't see one.”
― Jonathan Stroud

tags: book-3-of-the-bartimaeus-trilogy, ptolemy-s-gate

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#8

“Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Creeping Shadow

tags: tea

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#9

“There is no rose without thorns.”
― Pam Munoz Ryan

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#10

“Our Land is alive, Esperanza...This whole valley breathes and lives...He picked up a handful of earth and studied it. Did you know that when you lie down on the land, you can feel it breathe? That you can feel its heart beating.”
― Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising

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#11

“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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#12

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

tags: love

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#13

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

tags: dying, facts, fame, knowing, love, poverty, reality, school, teach, wealth

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#14

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

tags: life

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#15

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

tags: love, poetry

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#16

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing

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#17

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

tags: poetry

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#18

“Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.”
― Robert Frost

tags: poetry

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#19

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
― Robert Frost

tags: love

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#20

“If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”
― Robert Frost

tags: laughter

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#21

“Freedom lies in being bold.”
― Robert Frost

tags: boldness, courage, freedom

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#22

“The best way out is always through.”
― Robert Frost

tags: feelings, persistence, problems

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#23

“You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.”
― Kazu Kibuishi, The Last Council

tags: failure, success

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#24

“Remember that it's easier to see where light is coming from in the dark. This is important to remember, for when all the lights go out.”
― Kazu Kibuishi, Firelight

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#25

“Sometimes it takes getting a little lost to recognize a path.”
― Kazu Kibuishi, Supernova

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#26

“I have been around for so long, and I've seen so many things. When you live as long as I do, you begin to see patterns in life. When I look into the future, I am looking into these patterns. You creatures are not as complex as you make yourselves out to be.”
― Kazu Kibuishi, The Stonekeeper's Curse

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#27

“MOM: 'You have to remember we're on an alien planet. There are all sorts of strange and dangerous things around us.'

NAVIN: 'Yeah, isn't it great?”
― Kazu Kibuishi, The Cloud Searchers

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#28

“When you begin to realize the true weight of your actions...you will awaken to become the person the world needs you to be.”
― Kazu Kibuishi, The Last Council

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#29

“The shortcomings of my generation do not have to extend on to yours.”
― Kazu Kibuishi, Prince of the Elves

tags: amulet, generation, kazu-kibuishi

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#30

“Vigo: Please make yourselves at home. Some tea?
Coglsey: We don't have time for this!
Vigo: There is always time for tea.
Miskit: You don't understand. We're on an important mission, and our friends need help!
Vigo: If your mission is so important, you should sit down and reflect about what to do. - The Last Council”
― Kazu Kibuishi

tags: amulet, cogsley, miskit, the-last-council, vigo

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