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#1

“But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

tags: dragons

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#2

“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

tags: happily-ever-after, love

1787 likes

#3

“Do you know how to read?'
'No. It is one of the black arts.'
He nodded. 'But a useful one,' he said.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan

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#4

“I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

tags: headcolds, howl

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#5

“Could you tell me again what was written on the apple?” “Tê kallistê. Kallista in Greek means ‘most beautiful.’” And thus I learned that Philip had considered me beautiful.”
― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive

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#6

“A heart's a heavy burden.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

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#7

“Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion

tags: courage, enduring, strength, strength-through-adversity, willpower

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#9

“So you’re saying that I could die at any moment!” “Yes. And this is different from your life yesterday in what way?”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion

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#10

“Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
― Agatha Christie, Peril at End House

tags: humor, thinking

1390 likes

#11

“It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

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#12

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
― Agatha Christie

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#13

“To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.”
― Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery

tags: excuses, explanations, weakness

150 likes

#14

“Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!”
― Agatha Christie

tags: tea

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#15

“That is one of the advantagers of being thirteen. You know so much more than you did when you were only twelve”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: birthday, growing-up

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#16

“Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, In the Forests of Serre

tags: inadequacy-of-words, language, meaning, words

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