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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“The biggest lies we save for ourselves.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

“Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.”
― Raymond Carver, The Bridle

“A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

“By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.”
― Mark Lawrence

“Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park

“I did not like this feeling of having feelings.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.”
― Jim Butcher, Ghost Story

“Are you kidding? That guy was a mystery wrapped in an enigma and crudely stapled to a ticking fucking time bomb. He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“You can never have too many knives, his father had told him. Unless they're pointed at you, and by people who don't like you much. ”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“I’m a liar and a cheat and a coward, but I will never, ever, let a friend down. Unless of course not letting them down requires honesty, fair play, or bravery.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

“Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“And he waited. It was only for a few seconds, but it felt like a small forever.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

“Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help.”
― Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim

“Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.”
― Lynda Barry, Cruddy

“Cette histoire est vraie puisque je l'ai inventée.”
― Boris Vian, L'écume des jours

“The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it? ”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Disappear here”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero