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    Kirsten Miller
    “You big crybaby," I whispered into his ear. "Now you know why your mom warned you not to hit girls. Sometimes they hit back.”
    ― Kirsten Miller, Inside the Shadow City
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Stephen Schwartz
    “I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason
    Bringing something we must learn
    And we are led to those who help us most to grow
    If we let them and we help them in return.”
    ― Stephen Schwartz
    tags: broadway, for-good, friendship, goodbyes, musicals, parting, wicked
    638 likes

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    Jim Butcher
    “If I need you I'll give you a signal.'
    'What signal?'
    'I'll imitate the scream of a terrified little girl”
    ― Jim Butcher
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
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  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: temptation
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  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “No good deed goes unpunished.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor
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  • #10
    Stephen Schwartz
    “Those who don't try never look foolish.”
    ― Stephen Schwartz, Wicked: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical
    tags: fiyero
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    Gregory Maguire
    “Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
    tags: history
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    Gregory Maguire
    “I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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    Stephen Schwartz
    “Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try I'll never know.”
    ― Stephen Schwartz, Wicked: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical
    tags: wicked-the-musical
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  • #14
    Stephen Schwartz
    “It's just life, so keep dancing through.”
    ― Stephen Schwartz, Wicked: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical
    tags: elphaba, fiyero, galinda, glinda, nessa, nessarose, wicked, wicked-the-musical
    145 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dumbledore, magic, music, power-of-music
    3095 likes

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    Kirsten Miller
    “When I grow up, I'd like to be dangerous.”
    ― Kirsten Miller, Inside the Shadow City
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    Jim Butcher
    “I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Storm Front
    tags: harry-dresden, humor, women
    291 likes

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  • #18
    Jim Butcher
    “Are you always a smartass?'

    Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites
    tags: humor, impudence, sarcasm, smartass
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  • #19
    Jim Butcher
    “Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?”
    ― Jim Butcher, White Night
    tags: carlos-ramirez, harry-dresden, humor
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  • #20
    Jim Butcher
    “Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites
    tags: harry-dresden, love, magic, thomas-raith
    244 likes

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  • #21
    Jim Butcher
    “Vanity, thy name is vampire.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty
    tags: harry-dresden, thomas-raith, vampires, vanity
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  • #22
    Jim Butcher
    “I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty
    tags: dresden, family, friends, friendship
    1369 likes

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  • #23
    Kerstin Gier
    “Sein Herz zu verlieren, ist die schönste Art festzustellen, dass man eines hat.”
    ― Kerstin Gier, Für jede Lösung ein Problem
    tags: love
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  • #24
    J.K. Rowling
    “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: live-death-love
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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  • #26
    David Nicholls
    “She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy”
    ― David Nicholls, One Day
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  • #27
    J.M. Barrie
    “I'm not young enough to know everything.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton
    tags: wisdom
    3773 likes

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  • #28
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #29
    Michael Ende
    “If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless.

    If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.”
    ― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
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  • #30
    Jasper Fforde
    “If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten
    tags: life, world
    2693 likes



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