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    Penny Reid
    “Since I spent much of my childhood being left behind and ignored, one might think that, as an adult, moments of perceived abandonment would feel old hat. The truth is, as an adult, I am always waiting to be left behind. I’m always ready to be discarded and, therefore, I spend a significant amount of time preparing for this eventuality.
    I lower my expectations, I don’t seek out meaningful relationships, and I don’t engage in any sort of real intimacy, physical or otherwise.
    Engage is the key word here. Except, when I engage, when it happens, when I’m left behind it doesn’t feel old hat. It feels like it did the first time and it takes me by surprise. So, I don’t let it happen.”
    ― Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Human
    tags: abandoned, intimacy
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    Jodi Lynn Anderson
    “The Lady shrugged nonchalantly. "You're a hider. Thats what you're thinking. And you're right."
    May swallowed and nodded, feeling very small.
    The Lady kneaded her wrinkled hands. "What you are hiding from the most, my dear, is that you are none of those things you are so afraid of being - cowardly, weak, small. You aren't afraid to know you're afraid. And you're most afraid that you're stronger than you know.”
    ― Jodi Lynn Anderson, May Bird Among the Stars
    tags: afraid, hider, stronger
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  • #3
    “You didn't go to a family outing. You went on one.”
    ― Margaret Epp
    tags: sarah-the-magic-25th
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    Margaret Laurence
    “Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.”
    ― Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel
    tags: privacy
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    Kate DiCamillo
    “Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl?
    The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.”
    ― Dicamillo, Kate
    tags: despereaux, want
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    Connie Willis
    “Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time.”
    ― Connie Willis, Bellwether
    tags: incompetence, management, paperwork
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    Kate DiCamillo
    “No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.”
    ― Dicamillo, Kate
    tags: care, despereaux, want
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    Connie Willis
    “Don't they know science doesn't work like that? You can't just order scientific breakthroughs. They happen when you are looking at something you've been working on for years and suddenly see a connection you never noticed before, or when you're looking for something else altogether. Sometimes they even happen by accident. Don't they know you can't get a scientific breakthrough just because you want one?”
    ― Connie Willis, Bellwether
    tags: breakthrough, science
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  • #10
    Charlaine Harris
    “.. what she had was hers absolutely, not to be touched by other hands without proper permission being asked and granted.”
    ― Charlaine Harris, A Bone to Pick
    tags: permission
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    Charlaine Harris
    “No one would ever like him; he would never be accused of being unfair.”
    ― Charlaine Harris, A Bone to Pick
    tags: acused, fair, like
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  • #12
    “It had to do with the way women throughout time has known the feel of love when it came to them.”
    ― Peg Sutherland, Pirate Moon
    tags: feel, love, time
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  • #13
    Margaret Atwood
    “Being socially retarded is like being mentally retarded, it arouses in others disgust and pity and the desire to torment and reform.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Surfacing
    tags: retarded
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Second-hand American was spreading over him in patches, like mange or lichen. He was infested, garbled, and I couldn't help him: it would take such time to heal, unearth him, scrape down to where he was true.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Surfacing
    tags: american, heal, infested, unearth
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  • #15
    “And you, Bloss, may shove it ... sideways ... with barbed wire wrapped around it.”
    ― McKevett, Cooked Goose
    tags: barbed, shove
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  • #16
    Roderick Townley
    “Once upon a time she had felt trapped inside her story with its familiar characters and predictable plot. Now she felt locked out of it.”
    ― Roderick Townley, The Great Good Thing
    tags: once-upon-a-time, silvie
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  • #17
    P.L. Travers
    “I shouldn't wonder if you didn't wonder much too much!”
    ― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins Comes Back
    tags: wonder
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    Jodi Thomas
    “The dreamer whispered, Just once let something happen.”
    ― Jodi Thomas, The Secrets of Rosa Lee
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  • #19
    Margaret Wise Brown
    “Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it.”
    ― Margaret Wise Brown
    tags: brown, everything, pussy-willow
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  • #20
    “It must be dreadful to be a grown-up if a party in an everydayish schoolroom could seem just as pleasant to you as a picnic”
    ― Margaret Epp
    tags: sarah-the-magic-25th
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    Kate DiCamillo
    “Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.”
    ― Kate DiCamillo
    tags: dappled, dark, despereaux, heart, light
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  • #22
    “Lesson number one, she muttered, love is beyond your grasp. Lesson two: nowhere is it written that you're guaranteed fairness. And three: there's only right and wrong.”
    ― Sandy Blair, A Man In A Kilt
    tags: kilt, lesson, love, one, three, two, wrong
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  • #23
    Cornelia Funke
    “I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.”
    ― Cornelia Funke
    tags: dragon-rider, happy, rat, safer, secondhand
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  • #24
    Rebecca Rupp
    “Keep all your promises, don't take what doesn't belong to you, and always look after those less fortunate than yourself, and you'll do well in the world.”
    ― Rebecca Rupp, The Dragon of Lonely Island
    tags: fortunate, promises, world
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    Kate DiCamillo
    “This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.”
    ― Dicamillo, Kate
    tags: despereaux, forgiveness, joke, tales
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  • #26
    Robin McKinley
    “One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things.”
    ― Robin McKinley, The Blue Sword
    tags: angry, especially, pace, throw
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  • #27
    “Get a grip on your heart and pride, girl. Nobody has or ever will give a damn whether you're happy or not.”
    ― Sandy Blair, A Man In A Kilt
    tags: grip, happy, heart
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    Kate DiCamillo
    “But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.”
    ― Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux
    tags: farewell, good-bye
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  • #29
    “Jennifer's smiling! She must be feeling sick or something!”
    ― Nick Sullivan
    tags: jennifer, princess, seventh, smiling
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  • #30
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Jane of Lantern Hill
    tags: desert, gentle, jane, lantern, life, love
    74 likes

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  • #31
    “Again time elapsed.”
    ― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock
    tags: clock, drew, elapsed, mystery, nancy, time
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