October 2011
4 posts
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“She had always wondered at the bravery of it. The sparrows jumped before they...”
– Lauren Oliver, Liesl & Po
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“Essence was no physical matter…. No one could touch it. No one could...”
– Lauren Oliver, Liesl & Po
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“People need other people to feel things for them …. It gets lonely to feel...”
– Lauren Oliver, Liesl & Po
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“All children were the same to him: strange and sticky and best avoided, like an...”
– Lauren Oliver, LIesl & Po
August 2011
27 posts
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“That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s...”
– Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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“It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not...”
– Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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“She did not want to go to either city. They seemed awful and huge and too...”
– Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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“The riddle of the Ravished … is that they must always go down into the...”
– Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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“Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were...”
– Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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“Though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without...”
– Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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“For the wishes of one’s old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if...”
– Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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“When you are born … your courage is new and clean. You are brave enough...”
– Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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“She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the...”
– Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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“… and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on...”
– Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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“It will all be hard and bloody, but there will be wonders, too, or else why...”
– Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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“Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined,...”
– Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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“Hearts weigh quite a lot. That is why it takes so long to grow one.”
– Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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“People fall in love all the time. And it’s not always with the right people. And...”
– Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
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“Fate never promises to show tell you everything up front. You aren’t always...”
– Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
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“Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it...”
– Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
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“People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it’s too...”
– Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
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“We are who we are. It’s surprising how little say we have in it. Once you accept...”
– Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
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“She wondered if anything between them would ever be the same. And the sad answer...”
– Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
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“She’d latched onto him as though she’d been wandering the desert and he was her...”
– Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
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“Because that’s what’s supposed to happen. That’s the fairy tale. You meet, you...”
– Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
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“There was a strange but universal understanding among women. On some level, all...”
– Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
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“No matter how many times she told herself that nothing good could come of this,...”
– Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
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“Don’t look for it - find it. Don’t search for it - come to it.”
– Pat O’Shea, The Hounds of the Morrigan
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“But the world never really fit either of them. And misfits have to stick...”
– Patrick E. McLean, How to Succeed in Evil
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“The strongest will might never bend, but even the hardest heart will surely...”
– Patrick E. McLean, How to Succeed in Evil
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“his complexion turns a deep shade of red that can only be described as purple’s...”
– Patrick E. McLean, How to Succeed in Evil
July 2011
24 posts
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“Theory says that the bumblebee can’t fly. But the little bumblebee says, “screw...”
– Patrick E. McLean, How to Succeed in Evil
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“She blinks back tears of the purest distilled crazy.”
– Patrick E. McLean, How to Succeed in Evil
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“In his experience the sad truth of human nature is not that people can be...”
– Patrick E. McLean, How to Succeed in Evil
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“Everybody has forgotten that life doesn’t play by the rules. Every once and a...”
– Patrick E. McLean, How to Succeed in Evil
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“It feels like all the important decisions were made long ago and now Gus is just...”
– Patrick E. McLean, How to Succeed in Evil
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“he might admit a certain - well, not hope, you understand, but let’s just...”
– Patrick E. McLean, How to Succeed in Evil
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“His eyes grow hot again. Sometimes it comes out as lasers, sometimes as tears....”
– Patrick E. McLean, How to Succeed in Evil
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“As far as he is concerned the world can go to hell in a handbasket. Just so long...”
– Patrick E. McLean, How to Succeed in Evil
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“Edwin, you are the smartest, unhappiest person I know. If that’s not a breeding...”
– Patrick E. McLean, How to Succeed in Evil
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“She is old, but she is determined to keep from talking to herself for as long as...”
– Patrick E. McLean, How to Succeed in Evil
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“He goes because he has been told to go. For him, Heroism has ceased to be right...”
– Patrick E. McLean, How to Succeed in Evil
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“Marijuana steeped conversations concerning questions of wave formation often...”
– Patrick E. McLean, How to Succeed in Evil
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“There’s this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it...”
– Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon
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“Your peers when you’re a teenager will always be the keepers of your...”
– Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon
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“It was like snow has seemed over their world, turning everything cold and...”
– Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon
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“If she’d been a color, she would have been bright green. If she’d been a scent,...”
– Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon
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“Looking back, she found that she could forgive him because it had been her fault...”
– Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an...”
– Walter Cronkite (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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“As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.”
– John Green, Paper Towns