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“Music can make you feel things that aren’t yours—sadness, or love, or joy. A good song has a magic to it. It pulls you in and the feelings in the music take over and you become the music, you become the song.”
― Michelle Frost, Wisdoms of the Light

tags: magic, science-fiction, steampunk, visionary-fiction

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“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

tags: friends, friendship

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“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

tags: books, time

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“I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.”
― Keri Hulme

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“Day followed day, each one a little different from the one before...but the little house stayed just the same.”
― Virginia Lee Burton, The Little House

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Fantasy-Faction is a Fantasy Book Review Site and Forum Community. We review some of the genres leading titles as well as interview authors and post ...more

Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy" — 1137 members — last activity Jul 14, 2026 06:29PM
Readers, authors, illustrators, and editors aggregate here to discuss Sword & Sorcery books and related media (movies, comics, blogposts, etc.). ...more

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