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The modern world no longer believed in senseless tragedy. Bad things couldn’t just happen to people; someone had to pay.
“the universe wants from us is two things: don’t do any intentional harm to yourself or anyone else, and get happy.”
― Leaving Time
― Leaving Time
“Nothing changes, Vasya. Things are, or they are not. Magic is forgetting that something ever was other than as you willed it.”
― The Bear and the Nightingale
― The Bear and the Nightingale
“Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespear and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.”
― Pygmalion
― Pygmalion
“I am drunk with the beauty of life, I am at the verge of insanity. Every moment is a pearl of my life, so I have to enjoy every one of them.”
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“Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision.” Constantine was so close, I could see the blackness of her gums. “You gone have to ask yourself, Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?”
― The Help
― The Help
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