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“The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at the time I was pretending to be a casual passerby and not a father at all.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street

tags: brawl, father, magnitude, passerby, penderwicks, referee

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“Every real story is a never ending story.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

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“Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Last Dragonslayer

tags: quark, quarkbeast, velciraptor

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“That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Last Dragonslayer

tags: destiny

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“Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Last Dragonslayer

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