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A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses #2) by Sarah J. Maas – I honestly got stuck 2 chapters from the end because I knew it was all going to go terribly wrong. And it did! But this book gave me all the feels! I love this world, these
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Will I ever stop loafing and become a good writer? Are you ever afraid? Blessings. --- BABA YAGA: )Yr mind is as a wasp’s nest making, no honey & only stinging its own walls. That is a papery well in which to reside, gray & dust on the
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“Those of us who write, who sing, who paint, must remember that to a child a song may glow like a nightlight in a scary bedroom. It may be the only thing holding back the monsters. That story may be the only beautiful, true thing that makes it through all the ugliness of a little girl’s world to rest in her secret heart. May we take that seriously. It is our job, it is our ministry, it is the sword we swing in the Kingdom, to remind children that the good guys win, that the stories are true, and that a fool’s hope may be the best kind.”
― Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making
― Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making
“In the absence of real society, I made my own out of the imagined people Peter Flynt slid into my locker. They entered like corpses on a slab, but they came to life in my mind with each turn of the page.”
― The Words Between Us
― The Words Between Us
“Sad and mad and love are such weak words, drawn long ago from Germanic languages spoken by people who may have been more stone than flesh. The soul needs words rooted in romance languages, words like despondent and ravished and adore.”
― The Words Between Us
― The Words Between Us
“A moment of peace, a moment without doubt, a moment I felt that, were I called to, I could walk on water, I could hold back the wind.”
― The Words Between Us
― The Words Between Us
“I have been told, both in approval and in accusation, that I seem to love all my characters. What I do in writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart, and skin of a human being who is not myself. Whether this happens to be a man or a woman, old or young, with skin black or white, the primary challenge lies in making the jump itself. It is the act of a writer’s imagination that I set most high.”
― The Collected Stories
― The Collected Stories
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