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    Richelle Mead
    “Who is he?"
    "An idiot, said Adrian. "Makes me look like an upstanding member of society.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice
    tags: adrian-ivashkov
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    Richelle Mead
    “We need to be together."
    "Why?" I asked softly. The word was carried away on the wind, but he heard.
    "Because I want you."
    I gave him a sad smile, wondering if we'd meet again in the land of the dead. "Wrong answer," I told him.
    I let go”
    ― Richelle Mead, Blood Promise
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “I coveted you. I had no right to want you--but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
    tags: edward-cullen, seduction
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    Isaac Marion
    “I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.”
    ― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
    tags: chapter-24, life, will-herondale
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “You make me want to live, Rowan. Not survive; not exist. Live.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “She was fire, and light, and ash, and embers. She was Aelin Fireheart, and she bowed for no one and nothing, save the crown that was hers by blood and survival and triumph.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows
    tags: aelin-galathynius, fireheart, queen-of-shadows
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “She was a whirling cloud of death, a queen of shadows, and these men were already carrion.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows
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  • #9
    “Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
    tags: funny
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    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    William Shakespeare
    “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    tags: greatness
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon
    tags: fiction
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: foolishness, gandalf, reductionism, wisdom
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo-baggins, dissipation, old-age
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: despair, gandalf, hope
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles."
    "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “You cannot pass," he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: balrog, gandalf, guardianship, orc
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.

    GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.

    PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what?

    GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.

    PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad.

    GANDALF: No. No, it isn't.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
    tags: gandalf-dwarves
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo.
    Sam looked at him unhappily. 'It all depends on what you want,' put in Merry. 'You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin--to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours--closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: friendship, loyalty, trust
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    John Rogers
    “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

    [Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
    ― John Rogers
    tags: atlas-shrugged, ayn-rand, books, children-s-literature, education, fantasy, jrr-tolkien, life-changing, lord-of-the-rings, reading, real-world
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: faramir
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
    tags: bravery, heroism
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Home is behind, the world ahead,
    and there are many paths to tread
    through shadows to the edge of night,
    until the stars are all alight.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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