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#1

“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: romeo-and-juliet, shakespeare

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#2

“There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.”
― August Strindberg, The ghost sonata

tags: blindness, poison, sight, vision

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#3

“It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

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#4

“Just because you said dragon demons were extinct—"
"I said mostly extinct."
Alec jabbed a finger toward him.
"Mostly extinct," he said, his voice trembling with rage, "is NOT
EXTINCT ENOUGH."
"I see," said Jace. "I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

tags: alec-lightwood, city-of-ashes, humour, jace-wayland

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#5

“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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#6

“I already explained this. I don’t like you. True, I don’t like most people, but I especially dislike you. I could start my own religion based on how much I dislike you.”
― G.A. Aiken, What a Dragon Should Know

tags: dislike, hate

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#7

“Have I ever told you how glad I am we're not enemies? Eragon asked.
No, but it's very sweet of you.”
― Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

tags: argetlam, brightscales, dragon-riders, dragons, eragon, fantasy, saphira, shurtugal

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#8

“I am cursed with a terminal case of curiosity," he said. "I am jealous, selfish, acquisitive, territorial and possessive. I have a terrible temper, and I know I can be a cruel son of a bitch." He cocked his head. "I used to eat people, you know.”
― Thea Harrison, Dragon Bound

tags: dragos

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#9

“Did you kill the Fae horses?”
The whuffling stopped. Dragos said in a cautious voice, “Was I not supposed to?”
She shrugged. “It just wasn’t their fault.”
“If it helps any, I was hungry and ate one.”
― Thea Harrison, Dragon Bound

tags: dragon-bound

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#10

“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. ”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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#11

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
― Jack London

tags: charity, dogs, sharing

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#12

“I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

tags: heart, hunger, hurt, pain, waiting, wish

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#13

“Life is only precious because it ends, kid.”
― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

tags: mortality

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#14

“What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apologize.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

tags: coach-hedge, funny, humor

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#15

“Her philosophy was, if it had a pulse, it could be killed. I didn’t really have a philosophy, but I could see how talking with the school director would be difficult for her. If he said something she didn’t like, chopping him to tiny pieces wouldn’t exactly help me get into the school.”
― Ilona Andrews, An Apple for the Creature

tags: funny, humor, school, self-control

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#16

“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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#17

“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

tags: knowledge

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#18

“My mother groaned, my father wept,
into the dangerous world I leapt.”
― William Blake

tags: birth, pain

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#19

“Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.”
― William Blake

tags: vampires

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#20

“For Mercy has a human heart;
Pity, a human face;
And Love, the human form divine:
And Peace the human dress.

Songs of Innocence

Cruelty has a human heart
And jealousy a human face,
Terror the human form divine,
And secrecy the human dress.

The human dress is forged iron,
The human form a fiery forge,
The human face a furnace seal'd,
The human heart its hungry gorge.”
― William Blake

tags: cruelty, discovered-posthumously, human-nature, innocence, songs-of-experience

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#21

“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”
― Anne Carson (Translator), Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

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#22

“Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.
Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.”
― Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

tags: friendship, touching

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#23

“Your grief is as great as your splendor was: some god is weighing the one out equal to the other.”
― Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

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#24

“Look at me. This is nobility in a man:
to bear what falls from the gods and not say No.”
― Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

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#25

“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain; at least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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#26

“Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: shakespeare

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#27

“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: madness

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#28

“I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”
― William Shakespeare , Hamlet

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#29

“So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: guilt, jealousy

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#30

“Plagueis extended his left hand to touch him on the crown of the head. “Then it is done. From this day forward, the truth of you, now and forever more, will be Sidious.”
― James Luceno, Darth Plagueis

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