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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    L.J. Smith
    “I need you like - like light. You're light, all right - like a flame to a moth. I told you once that you shouldn't mess with forbidden things - I should have taken my own advice.”
    ― L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game
    tags: julian
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    L.J. Smith
    “I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love.”
    ― L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game
    tags: life, love
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  • #4
    Octavia E. Butler
    “In order to rise
    From its own ashes
    A phoenix
    First
    Must
    Burn.”
    ― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents
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  • #5
    Octavia E. Butler
    “All that you touch
    You Change.

    All that you Change
    Changes you.

    The only lasting truth
    is Change.

    God
    is Change.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler
    tags: change, god
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  • #6
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: faith
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  • #8
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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  • #9
    Patrick Ness
    “You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: philosophy, wisdom
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    Patrick Ness
    “Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: books, stories
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    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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    Patrick Ness
    “Stories don't always have happy endings."

    This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: happy-endings, stories, wild
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    Patrick Ness
    “I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
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    Patrick Ness
    “But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? the monster said, bending down so it's face was close to Conor's. Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: a-monster-calls, conor, dream, monster
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  • #15
    Kathleen Baldwin
    “My job as a writer is simple. Write a book I’m proud of, and present it as a gift to the world.
    Some will love it.
    Some will hate it.
    That’s the nature of art.”
    ― Kathleen Baldwin
    tags: book-writing, write, writer-tips, writers, writers-life, writers-on-writing, writing, writing-advice, writing-life, writing-tip, writing-tips
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  • #16
    N.K. Jemisin
    “We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.”
    ― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
    tags: cruelty, gods, hubris, humanity
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  • #17
    Shaun David Hutchinson
    “Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.”
    ― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
    tags: dreams, life, memories, we-are-the-ants
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    Susan Ee
    “I knew from the start that your loyalty would get you killed. I just never thought it would be your loyalty to me that would do it.”
    ― Susan Ee, Angelfall
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    Patrick Ness
    “Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
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  • #20
    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: adventure, love
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  • #21
    Markus Zusak
    “Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: heart
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  • #22
    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: beauty, life
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  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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  • #24
    C.S. Pacat
    “Once [your romantic leads] have kissed, you don’t get any pay-off from a second kiss. In fact, you risk reducing the tension. Every step forward has to up the stakes. But if the stakes go too high too early, it becomes a tension arms race. Escalate too soon and you’ve got all-out nuclear war in chapter four and scorched romantic earth for the rest of the story”
    ― C.S. Pacat
    tags: love, romance, tension
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  • #25
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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  • #26
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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  • #27
    Sabaa Tahir
    “There are two kinds of guilt. The kind that's a burden and the kind that gives you purpose. Let your guilt be your fuel. Let it remind you of who you want to be. Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It's damaged but it's there. Don't let them take it from you.”
    ― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes
    tags: elias, laia
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  • #28
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.”
    ― Fulton J. Sheen
    tags: catholic, catholicism, united-states, united-states-of-america
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  • #29
    Agatha Christie
    “But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.”
    ― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express
    tags: psychology
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  • #30
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “Patience is power.
    Patience is not an absence of action;
    rather it is "timing"
    it waits on the right time to act,
    for the right principles
    and in the right way.”
    ― Fulton J. Sheen
    tags: patience, power, timing, waiting
    1294 likes



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