

“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”
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“Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear”
― Kushiel's Chosen
― Kushiel's Chosen

“I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters.”
― Horns
― Horns

“All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.”
― Heart-Shaped Box
― Heart-Shaped Box

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
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