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“It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.”
― Of Love and Other Demons
― Of Love and Other Demons
“Someone who dreams cannot be forced to stop鈥攖here are no limitations to dreams, because we do not own dreams, dreams are from God.”
― Poisoning Sylvie
― Poisoning Sylvie

“Our story began with uncertainty, and with uncertainty, it ended鈥攏ot with a bang, but a whisper.”
― We Are Everyone
― We Are Everyone

“One thing I hate about being ill is that no one believes it unless I share it all with them, and even then they don鈥檛 act on it.”
― Borderlanders
― Borderlanders

“We preach authenticity as the ideal, yet often reward conformity. The world spins on the axis of 'just be yourself,' while whispering 'but not like that.”
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“I believe the visionaries and true reflections of society will be rewarded after their lives. Those being rewarded now are giving the public what it needs now, usually applauding its current state and clearing consciences.”
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“The earth rises and seems to spread like a mist. The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall have a long wait before I witness the soundless frolic of the shooting stars. In the profound darkness of certain nights, I have seen the sky streaked with so many trialing sparks that it seemed to me a great gale must be blowing through the outer heavens.”
― Wind, Sand and Stars
― Wind, Sand and Stars

“IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledged that a brilliant idea, conceived and executed by a clever young woman, must be claimed by a man.”
― Pride and Premeditation
― Pride and Premeditation

“I鈥檓 wheelin my bike along the sidewalk, watchin all the white faces, watchin me.”
― Backstories
― Backstories

“Now that I could hear this woman鈥檚 song鈥攁 melody that told a story I couldn鈥檛 understand鈥擨 hoped with all of my heart that it wasn鈥檛 too late.”
― Songbirds
― Songbirds

“Don鈥檛 be scared, even if things change. Don鈥檛 forget to keep writing. Welcome to the House of Dreams.”
― Borderlanders
― Borderlanders

“Evil can be transmuted into tragedy, loss into gain, temporality into deathlessness, by creating beauty.”
― The Oldest Word
― The Oldest Word

“Can there be one best way to tend a garden, one best way to love, one truest cause for love? No. It equates free will with submission.”
― The Oldest Word
― The Oldest Word

“Does Ebui dream of a private grave? People in fancy dress eulogizing, laying down their offerings. Or does she dream past the frontier, a quicksilver cavern to adorn forever?”
― The Oldest Word
― The Oldest Word

“I drank a bitter cup of ale, a cupful of fancy, and thoughts slide beyond the mountain rill; clasping every fairness to the quill, the scent of flowers, the musical choir of birds, o鈥� air! the Divine here! for a poet鈥檚 joy to sigh!”
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“The woods can be strange. It takes a long time to feel you belong there and then you never really belong in town. It's a choice made for you by your brain at a moment you didn't notice.”
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“Folded the eyes: inner a vision divine, a glistening dream, the dark increased the light, to not let me stay closed, I opened the eyes: near the dream comes true.”
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“In books we can live different lives, be different people, visit far-off places, without moving a muscle (ok except eye muscles) (and page-turning muscles)”
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“I have watched life play this game as if I was never a part of it.”
― Within the Valves of my Heart..
― Within the Valves of my Heart..

“o que havia me ligado a ele era a mesma f茅 desesperada que deposit谩vamos na entel茅quia da vida, encarnada para n贸s pela literatura. N茫o pens谩vamos de modo algum que ela pudesse salvar o mundo; ao contr谩rio, pens谩vamos que ela era o 煤nico meio de n茫o se salvar do mundo.”
― La plus secr猫te m茅moire des hommes
― La plus secr猫te m茅moire des hommes

“Therein lies the rub'...
William S. once put
those words into the mouth of a troubled Danish prince and people can't stop repeating them to this day.
Well, I'm writing, too. I am putting words into the mouths of my characters, filling their minds with problems, burning their ears with gossip, creating problems for them, and I am revealing their secrets to boot.”
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William S. once put
those words into the mouth of a troubled Danish prince and people can't stop repeating them to this day.
Well, I'm writing, too. I am putting words into the mouths of my characters, filling their minds with problems, burning their ears with gossip, creating problems for them, and I am revealing their secrets to boot.”
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