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“On the other side of the boy was a fireplace with a small fire burning in the grate. It was a much smaller fire than all the smoke outside suggested, but then this was obviously only a back room in the castle. Much more important to Sophie, this fire had reached the glowing rosy stage, with little blue flames dancing on the logs, and placed beside it in the warmest position was a low chair with a cushion on it. Sophie pushed the boy aside and dived for that chair. “Ah! My fortune!” she said, settling herself comfortably in it. It was bliss. The fire warmed her aches and the chair supported her back and she knew that if anyone wanted to turn her out now, they were going to have to use extreme and violent magic to do it.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle: A Spellbinding Fantasy Adventure of Magic, Curses, and a Moving Castle

“To oppose something is to maintain it.
They say here "all roads lead to Mishnory." To be sure, if you turn your back on Mishnory and walk away from it, you are still on the Mishnory road. To oppose vulgarity is inevitably to be vulgar. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk in a different road.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“If it’s to get well, it has to hurt. If it stopped hurting, your arm would be dead.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

“What is this forgiveness you ask? Must you always require judgment? Can’t your universe merely be?”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune