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    George R.R. Martin
    “Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower? No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
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    David Mitchell
    “My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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    J.K. Rowling
    “He must have known I'd want to leave you."
    "No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, friendship, harry-potter, ron-weasley
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    George R.R. Martin
    “all men are fools, and all men are knights, where women are concerned.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
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    David Mitchell
    “This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.”
    ― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
    tags: david-mitchell, inspirational, love, philosophical, philosophy, the-bone-clocks
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    David Mitchell
    “Human cruelty can be infinite. Human generosity can be boundless.”
    ― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
    tags: human-nature
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    David Mitchell
    “Creation unfolds, around us, despite us and through us, at the speed of days and nights, and we like to call it "love”
    ― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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    David Mitchell
    “This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.”
    ― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: lord-of-the-rings, sam-gamgee
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    William Ernest Henley
    “It matters not how strait the gate,
    How charged with punishments the scroll,
    I am the master of my fate:
    I am the captain of my soul.”
    ― William Ernest Henley, Echoes of Life and Death
    tags: captain, fate, master
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “Egg, I dreamed that I was old.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
    tags: a-song-of-ice-and-fire, maester-aemon, old
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Words are wind, Brienne told herself. They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The road goes ever on and on”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty, beauty that could break your heart.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
    tags: battles, dead, george-r-r-martin, hardship, heartbreak, hope, hope-for-the-hopeless, hopefulness, keep-the-faith, knights, searching, strength, strength-through-adversity, struggle, struggling, true, warriors
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A Hedge Knight is the truest kind of knight, Dunk. Other Knights serve the Lords who keep them, or from whom they hold their lands, but we serve where we will, for men whose causes we believe in. Every Knight swears to protect the weak, but we keep the vow the best, I think.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, The Hedge Knight
    tags: hedge-knight, knight, ser-arlan-of-pennytree
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    William Faulkner
    “The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself”
    ― William Faulkner
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: dumbledore
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    George R.R. Martin
    “There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: fear
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Better to have flamed in the darkness, to have inspired others, to have lived, than to have sat in the darkness, cursing the people who borrowed, but did not return, your candle.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
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    Philip Pullman
    “You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
    ― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
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    Neil Gaiman
    “The view changes from where you are standing.
    Words can wound, and wounds can heal.
    All of these things are true.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
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    Neil Gaiman
    “You know how is it when you love someone? And the hard part, the bad part, the Jerry Springer Show part is that you never stop loving someone. There's always a piece of them in your heart.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
    tags: writing
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
    tags: demon, forgetfulness, hurt, lie, truth
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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: albus-dumbledore, courage, friends
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, life, love, snape
    19271 likes



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