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"You mustn't tell lies, you mustn't steal, you mustn't kill, and you mustn't throw stones at birds. We all agree on that.

"Except maybe swans, because swans can actually be passive-aggressive little bastards. But apart from swans, you mustn't throw stones at birds."

"Hand on heart, which of us hasn't wanted to pull a gun after talking to a twenty-year-old?"

"Think about cookies."

Now I want a cookie!

Unfortunately, it’s not until you actually go to University and start reading literary theory and literary criticism that you realize your mistake, by which time it’s too late.

“It is possible to stay indoors during a storm and end up struck by lightning all the same.”

“Here’s some free advice: Make an honest assessment of the choices you’ve made before you look askance at somebody else’s.”

This was true magic, the making and unmaking of the world with paper and ink.

Listening to Phoebe Reads a Mystery

I believe you hear a click, not in your head but in your soul, when you find the place where you belong. You can ignore it, but really, why would you?

“That’s just human illusion. We imagine there’s an order to things, because it’s too awful to consider the randomness of fate.”

“It’s the trying that heals you.”

I need quotation marks!!!

“...And yet the moon doesn’t fall from the heavens, and the ground refuses to tremble.”

“Just because nothing has happened doesn’t mean that nothing will happen.”

And love is what? Love is freedom. Love is respect. Love is equality. Love is justice.

“What do you guys think you are going to do? Win a Pulitzer Prize?” he sneered.

Hahahaha I would love to know his reaction when they won!

Lord Fitzwilliam lived at the vast Yorkshire mansion called Wentworth Woodhouse.

She never expected to be read the way we read her, gulped down as escapist historical fiction, fodder for romantic fantasies.

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