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    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: fantasy
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    W.B. Yeats
    “Come away, O human child!
    To the waters and the wild
    With a faery, hand in hand,
    For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
    ― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
    tags: children, fairies, fantasy, loss-of-innocence, poetry, sorrow
    1426 likes

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    Laini Taylor
    “You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters."

    “Beautiful and full of monsters?"

    “All the best stories are.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: fantasy, stories, storytelling, young-adult
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    Madeline Miller
    “There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: historical-fiction
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    Casey McQuiston
    “Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves that they're straight.”
    ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
    tags: bi, gay, lgbt
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    Rick Riordan
    “Will put his hand on Nico's shoulder. "Nico, we need to have another talk about your people skills."
    "Hey, I'm just stating the obvious. If this is Apollo, and he dies, we're all in trouble."
    Will turned to me. "I apologize for my boyfriend."
    Nico rolled his eyes. "Could you not―"
    "Would you prefer special guy?" Will asked. "Or significant other?"
    "Significant annoyance, in your case," Nico grumbled”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle
    tags: couple, gay, humor, lgbt, romance
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  • #8
    Sarah Schulman
    “I am not here to entertain straight people.”
    ― Sarah Schulman
    tags: gay, glbt, lesbian, lgbt, queer, straight-people
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    David Levithan
    “I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten.

    It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.”
    ― David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy
    tags: humor, lgbt
    185 likes

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  • #10
    Patrick Ness
    “Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: fiction, stories
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    Madeline Miller
    “That is — your friend?"
    "Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: achilles, death, death-of-a-loved-one, greek, greek-mythology, lgbt, lgbtq, love, mythology, patroclus, trojan-war
    2011 likes

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  • #12
    Marissa Meyer
    “Are you here for a reason, Cheshire?

    Why, yes, I would enjoy a cup of tea. I take mine with lots of cream, and no tea. Thank you.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Heartless
    tags: alice-in-wonderland-reference, cats, fairy-tales, humor, young-adult
    127 likes

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    Homer
    “There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
    tags: classics
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    Homer
    “You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
    tags: classics, cowardice, death, greece, war
    49 likes

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  • #15
    Homer
    “My friend Patroclus, whom I loved, is dead.
    I loved him more than any other comrade.
    I loved him like my head, my life, myself.
    I lost him, killed him.
    [. . .]
    . . .my Patroclus, son of Menoetius.”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
    tags: achilles, classics, emily-wilson, iliad, patrochilles, patroclus
    10 likes



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