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A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos, #0.1)

by Samantha Shannon (Goodreads Author)

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Nov 11, 2025 02:53PM

“Love is the strongest emotion any creature can feel except for hate, but hate can't hurt you. Love, and trust, and friendship, and all the other emotions humans value so much, are the only emotions that can bring pain. Only love can break a heart into so many pieces. ”
― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, In the Forests of the Night

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“A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.”
― Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories

tags: allusion, creation, imagination

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“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
― Jules de Gaultier

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“He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.”
― Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories

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“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

tags: childhood, disease, literature

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