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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight
    tags: inspirational, life, meredith-gentry, nice
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    Charlaine Harris
    “I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues.”
    ― Charlaine Harris
    tags: death, life, true-blood, vamps
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    Stephen King
    “I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
    ― Stephen King
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    Stephen King
    “Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: horror, vampire
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    Stephen King
    “Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: children
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    Stephen King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: life
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    Stephen King
    “As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.”
    ― Stephen King, Just After Sunset
    tags: borges, marquez
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    Stephen King
    “And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.”
    ― Stephen King , The Dark Tower
    tags: happy-endings
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    Dean Koontz
    “She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.”
    ― Dean Koontz, Lightning
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    Dean Koontz
    “From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.”
    ― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
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    Richard Laymon
    “Except I think it feels more like an empty stomach than a broken heart. An aching hollowness that food can't cure. You know. You've felt it yourself, I bet. You hurt all the time, you're restless, you can't think straight, you sort of wish you were dead but what you really want is for everything to be the same as it was when you were still with her.. or him”
    ― Richard Laymon, Night in the Lonesome October
    tags: hope-that-s-right
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Danse Macabre
    tags: compromise, humor
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    Richard Matheson
    “God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? (“Disappearing Act”)”
    ― Richard Matheson, Collected Stories, Vol. 1
    tags: money, writing
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    Kelley Armstrong
    “You forget, darling.
    I am the local psychopath.”
    ― Kelley Armstrong, Bitten
    tags: humor
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “I will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats only for you. My breath will grow warm from your kiss.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Burnt Offerings
    tags: anita-blake, blood, hot, jean-claude, kiss, laurell-k-hamilton, lust, romance, vampire
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Burnt Offerings
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Never argue when you're winning.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Cerulean Sins
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Oh, no, a leopard blew up and plastered itself all over everything, but hey, animal print was in this year.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Incubus Dreams
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “You take insult where none is intended, but if you will find insult where none is meant, then perhaps I should try harder to insult on purpose.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, The Harlequin
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “You can never have too much coffee”, I said
    He turned and smiled at me. “You think so, but the rest of us get a little OD’ed on your level of caffeine.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Blood Noir
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Skin Trade
    tags: bravery, foolishness
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Skin Trade
    tags: anita-blake, fiction, supernatural, urban-fantasy, vampire
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Nicky looked down at me with a knowledge on his face that he was holding the monster in his arms. I'd have comforted him, but it would have been all lies.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Flirt
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Some moments are perfect, and then someone comes along and f*cks it up. Ain't it always the way.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Bullet
    tags: anita-blake
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.”
    ― Laurell K Hamilton, Bullet
    tags: fiction, life, paranormal-romance
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