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    V.C. Andrews
    “Little girls get hurt when they play grown-up games.”
    ― V.C. Andrews, Petals on the Wind
    tags: games, grown-up, hurt, little-girls, petals-on-the-wind, quote, v-c-andrews
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    Kerstin Gier
    “Nick demonstrated twenty-three ways of communicating without words by fanning himself with a napkin. "This one means oops, your fly is open, sir, and if you lower the fan a little and look at someone over the top of it, it means wow, I'd like to marry you. But if you do it the other way around, it means ha ha, we are now at war with Spain.”
    ― Kerstin Gier, Saphirblau
    tags: fan, language, ruby-red, sapphire-blue, war-with-spain
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    Kerstin Gier
    “....but talking to a ghost about a demon when you’re in a room full of people who can’t see either of them is not to be recommended.”
    ― Kerstin Gier, Saphirblau
    tags: books-reading-sapphire-blue, fiction-novel, kerstin-gier, quotes, saphirblau
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    Kerstin Gier
    “A weapon can usually be turned against you, if you don't know how to use it.”
    ― Kerstin Gier, Saphirblau
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    Catherine Fisher
    “He sang his last song. And the words of that have never been written down. But it was sweet and of great beauty, and those that heard it were changed utterly.
    Some say it was the song that moves the stars.”
    ― Catherine Fisher, Sapphique
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    Catherine Fisher
    “He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison.”
    ― Catherine Fisher, Sapphique
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  • #7
    Gemma Malley
    “Because no one needs to live for ever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.
    ”
    ― Gemma Malley, The Declaration
    tags: anna, death, declaration, gemma, life, love, malley, peter, welcome
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    Gemma Malley
    “Surplus meant unnecessary. Not required.
    You couldn’t be a Surplus if you were needed by someone else. You couldn’t be a Surplus if you were loved.
    ”
    ― Gemma Malley, The Declaration
    tags: anna, death, declaration, gemma, life, love, malley, peter, surplus
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    Gemma Malley
    “Reading and writing were a dangerous business; they made you think.”
    ― Gemma Malley, The Declaration
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    Gemma Malley
    “Nature is not about preserving old things, but about creating new ones. New life. New ideas.”
    ― Gemma Malley, The Declaration
    tags: newness
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    Gemma Malley
    “But each time, nothing was done, because change carried risks, because change led to instability, because new technology meant using precious energy, and because, at the end of the day, no one really cared.”
    ― Gemma Malley, The Declaration
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    Gemma Malley
    “But was falling such a bad thing, she wondered. Was it, perhaps better to see the top of the mountain, even if only for a moment, than never to even try? Or was it that the higher you allow yourself to climb, the further you have to come crashing down to earth?”
    ― Gemma Malley, The Declaration
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    V.C. Andrews
    “I believe in God... but I don't believe in religion. Religion is used to manipulate and punish. Used in a thousand ways for profit for even in the church, money is still the 'real' God.”
    ― V.C. Andrews, Seeds of Yesterday
    tags: seeds-of-yesterday
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    V.C. Andrews
    “I wish the night would end,
    I wish the day'd begin,
    I wish it would rain or snow,
    or the wind would blow,
    or the grass would grow,
    I wish I had yesterday,
    I wish there were games to play...”
    ― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
    tags: death, love, nature, sadness, siblings, song-lyrics
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    V.C. Andrews
    “We lived in the attic,
    Christopher, Cory, Carrie, and me,
    Now there are only three.”
    ― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
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    V.C. Andrews
    “People make the rules of society, not God.”
    ― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
    tags: god, society
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  • #17
    V.C. Andrews
    “Children are very wise
    intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.”
    ― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
    tags: children, intuition, intuitive, kids, love, pretending, youth
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    V.C. Andrews
    “At the end of the rainbow waited the pot of gold. But rainbows were made of faint and fragile gossamer-and gold weighed a ton-and since the world began, gold was the reason to do most anything.”
    ― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
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    V.C. Andrews
    “It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the old memorandum journals that I kept for so long, a title comes as if inspired. 'Open the Window and Stand in the Sunshine.' Yet, I hesitate to name our story that. For I think of us more as flowers in the attic.”
    ― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
    tags: chris-cathy-otp
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  • #20
    Christopher Paolini
    “People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
    tags: history, humor, memory, recall
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  • #21
    Christopher Paolini
    “Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
    tags: bravery, courage, nobility
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    Christopher Paolini
    “Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand."
    "Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
    tags: education, humor
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  • #23
    Christopher Paolini
    “First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... . Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. Consider none your superior whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly, or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
    tags: life-lessons
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  • #24
    Madeline Miller
    “But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
    tags: circe, constellations, daedalus, greek-mythology, love, stars
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    Madeline Miller
    “He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
    tags: circe, greek-mythology, intimacy, love, odysseus, scars, vulnerability
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  • #26
    Madeline Miller
    “Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment's carelessness. If I had ever believed it, I no longer did.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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  • #29
    Madeline Miller
    “I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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  • #30
    Madeline Miller
    “When I was born, the word for what I was did not exist.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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