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#1

“The tree has lived here for two hundred years. The man only a few decades. But the man has an axe, and the tree cannot run.”
― C. J. Tudor

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#2

“Then the storm broke, and the dragons danced.”
― George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood

tags: dance-with-dragons, fire-and-blood, storm, targaryens, war

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#3

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: identity

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#4

“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: friendship, loneliness

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#5

“And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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#6

“What do we say to the Lord of Death?'

'Not today.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: defiance, fear-of-death

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#7

“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: childhood, summer, winter

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#8

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi

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#9

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: dune

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#10

“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: muad-dib, order, princess-irulan, reality, understanding

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#11

“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: death, legacy, life, muad-dib, philosophy, truth, wisdom

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#12

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

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#13

“Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: bene-gesserit, proverb

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#14

“Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: fear, self-knowledge

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#15

“It begins with absence and desire.
It begins with blood and fear.
It begins with a discovery of witches.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

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#16

“Sorry, we've got ghosts.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

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#17

“Magic is desire made real.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

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#18

“Eventually I realized something. Whenever you tell yourself, This time it will be different, it’s as good as a promise that it’ll turn out the same as it always has.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

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#19

“Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

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#20

“Usually you not stupid. Why stupid, question?”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

tags: humor

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#21

“We’re as smart as evolution made us. So we’re the minimum intelligence needed to ensure we can dominate our planets.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

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#22

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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#23

“Always love or money. And it can’t be love, because love makes you crazy, and this guy isn’t crazy.”
― Lee Child, Running Blind

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#24

“But she thought the men’s brains had turned to jelly. They couldn’t see straight. Faced with a pretty woman they all seemed to lose their reason.”
― Ann Cleeves, Telling Tales

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#25

“Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: humor, trees

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#26

“For, if a bear could feel awe, then a bear could certainly know god.”
― Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

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#27

“Eden would overtake the world and the mistake of man would be forgot.”
― Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

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#28

“For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men.”
― Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

tags: desire, gender, gender-relations, girls, men, women

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#29

“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

tags: better

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#30

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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