“Months ago, I told you that I was a verse inspired by your chorus. I thought I knew what those words meant then, but now I fully understand the depth and the breadth of them. I want to write a ballad with you, not in notes but in our
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“The most dangerous person at the party is always the girl sitting alone with a book.”
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“Life was an uncertain thing, and there were some moments one wished to remember, to imprint upon one’s mind that the memory might be taken out later, like a flower pressed between the pages of a book, and admired and recollected anew.”
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“It’s going to be all right,” the count whispered. Scarlett wondered what type of delusional world he must live in to think such a thing.”
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“The truth always matters,” Matthew said. “Not when it comes to stories,” Cordelia said. “The point of stories is not that they are objectively true, but that the soul of the story is truer than reality. Those who mock fiction do so because they fear the truth.”
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“Only the very weak minded refuse to be influenced by literature.”
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