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  • #1
    T.S. Eliot
    “After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now
    History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors
    And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions,
    Guides us by vanities. Think now
    She gives when our attention is distracted
    And what she gives, gives with such supple confusions
    That the giving famishes the craving. Gives too late
    What’s not believed in, or if still believed,
    In memory only, reconsidered passion. Gives too soon
    Into weak hands, what’s thought can be dispensed with
    Till the refusal propagates a fear. Think
    Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices
    Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues
    Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes.
    These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.”
    T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems

  • #2
    Jane Smiley
    “Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.”
    Jane Smiley

  • #3
    Jane Smiley
    “The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.”
    Jane Smiley

  • #4
    Jane Smiley
    “I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.”
    Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

  • #5
    Neil Gaiman
    “Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #6
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it?" she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet.
    "I'm dying of boredom," Howl said pathetically. "Or maybe just dying.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

  • #7
    George R.R. Martin
    “I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

  • #8
    Neil Gaiman
    “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

  • #9
    Neil Gaiman
    “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

  • #10
    Terry Pratchett
    “The men in the room suddenly realized that they did not want to know her better. She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.

    And she held her sword, and she smiled like a knife.”
    Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “Never regret thy fall,
    O Icarus of the fearless flight
    For the greatest tragedy of them all
    Is never to feel the burning light.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #12
    Susanna Clarke
    “Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!"
    "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in making one feel uncomfortable and encouraging sober reflection upon one's imperfections.”
    Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
    tags: cats

  • #13
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

  • #14
    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

  • #15
    David Bowie
    “The truth is, of course, that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.”
    David Bowie

  • #16
    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right. Unromantic, but still true.”
    Laurell K. Hamilton, A Kiss of Shadows

  • #17
    Janet Fitch
    “Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.”
    Janet Fitch, White Oleander

  • #18
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?"

    "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties."

    "To establish ties?"

    "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world....”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #19
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #20
    Patrick Ness
    Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?
    Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

  • #21
    Patrick Ness
    If you speak the truth, the monster whispered in his ear, you will be able to face whatever comes.
    Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

  • #22
    Neil Gaiman
    “Remember your name. Do not lose hope--what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.”
    Neil Gaiman, Instructions



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