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She wondered how she would feel to be a married woman. It would be the end of her life, she decided, if life was a time of choices.
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marriage
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You are alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change.
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She's not dead. You didn't kill her, nor did the hunger birds, although they did their best to get to you through her. She's been given her ocean. One day, in its own time, the ocean will give her back. I thought of corpses and of skeletons with pearls for eyes. I thought of mermaids with tails that flicked when they moved, like my goldfishes' tails had flicked before my goldfish had stopped moving, to lie, belly up, like Lettie, on the top..
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Why does she want me to stay here with her?' 'She wants something to love, I think,' said the cat. 'Something that isn't her. She might want something to eat as well. It's hard to tell with creatures like that.
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My hands shook, but the milk did not touch the milk, and the Universe did not end.
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It's just that I get distracted, and I get Lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days.... ....When, you know, I just want to Hide or Scream or Bleed or something, and.....All that...
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I know a charm that can cure pain and sickness, and lift the grief from the heart of the grieving. I know a charm that will heal with a touch. I know a charm that will turn aside the weapons of an enemy. I know another charm to free myself from all bonds and locks. A fifth charm: I can catch an arrow in flight and take no harm from it. A sixth: spells sent to hurt me will hurt only the sender. A seventh charm I know: I can quench a fire sim..
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fantasy
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gods
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Each insult is woven with just enough truth to make it wound.
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truth
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You're as plain as the nose on your face," said Mr. Pennyworth. "And your nose is remarkably obvious. As is the rest of your face, young man. As are you. For the sake of all that is holy, empty your mind. Now. You are an empty alleyway. You are a vacant doorway. You are nothing. Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody."
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graveyard-book
nothing
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It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
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the-graveyard-book
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I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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Dinner was wonderful. There was a joint of beef, with roast potatoes, golden-crisp on the outside and soft and white inside, buttered greens I did not recognize, although I think now that they might have been nettles, toasted carrots all blackened and sweet (I did not think that I liked cooked carrots, so I nearly did not eat one but I was brave, and I tried it, and I liked it, and was disappointed in boiled carrots for the rest of my child..
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food
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There is nothing down here,' said the pale thing indistinctly. 'Nothing but dust and damp and forgetting.
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Richard paused for a moment. If ever, he decided, they made disorganization an Olympic sport, he could be disorganized for Britain.
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Rainie, mythologies take longer to die than people believe. They linger on in a kind of dream country that affects all of you.
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The really dangerous people believe that they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.
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Religions are places to stand and look and act, vantage points from which to view the world.
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One day every soldier in the empire has to shower in the blood of your sacrificial bull. The next they don't even remember your birthday.
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Personally--and this is speaking as a subscriber to Scientific American, here--I feel very sorry for the professionals whenever they find another confusing skull, something that belonged to the wrong sort of people, or whenever they find statues or artifacts that confuse them--for they'll talk about the odd, but they won't talk about the impossible, which is where I feel sorry for them, for as soon as something becomes impossible it slipsli..
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I think all geniuses - or the ones thet I've run into - tend to have a faintly tenuous relationship with the real world, because so much is going on on the inside. They may be geniuses but they often need someone to walk around holding a string. They're sort of balloons, bobbing around.
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Fat Charlie had had no real liking for the police, but until now, he had still managed to cling to a fundamental trust in the natural order of things, a conviction that there was some kind of power--a Victorian might have thought of it as Providence--that ensured that the guilty would be punished while the innocent would be set free. This faith had collapsed in the face of recent events and had been replaced by the suspicion that he would s..
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wrongfully-accused
justice
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It's funny. I thought she'd live through anything." Charlie said, "Me too. I figured even if there was a nuclear war, it would still leave radioactive cockroaches and your mum."
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mother-in-law
stepmother
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2c23f44
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The Sky was red, but not warm red of a sunset. This was an angry, glowering red, the colour of an infected wound.
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morbidity
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cd2e4a5
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that was okay. Nice food. And no one was trying to kill us." "I'm sure that will remedy itself as the day goes on," said Hunter, accurately."
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Fat Charlie saw one thing with his eyes, and he saw something else with his mind, and in the gulf between the two things, madness waited.
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You people talk about the living and the dead as if they were two mutually exclusive categories. As if you can not have a river that is also a road, or a song that is also a color.
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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something. So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobo..
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I am thinking of a sky filled with spaceships, so many of them that they seem like a plague of locusts, silver against the luminous mauve of the night.
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the-man-who-forgot-ray-bradbury
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And if you are waiting for a new book in a long ongoing series, whether from George or from Pat Rothfuss or from someone else...
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Y por que es necesario tener valor? --le pregunto el gato con tono de indiferencia. --Porque, cuando haces algo a pesar del miedo que sientes --respondio ella--, necesitas tener mucho valor.
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gryffindor
valor
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b3c03e3
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Lives are snowflakes - forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod, but still unique.
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If you can fake sincerity, you've got it made.
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One word after another.
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writing
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The man Jack was, above all things, a professional, or so he told himself,
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Face your life Its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken
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I keep telling you: it's the mystery that endures. Not the explanation
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I loved that place as if it was a part of me, and perhaps, in some ways, it was.
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part-of-me
places
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There, that wasn't as bad as I had feared," he said cheerfully. "I've got my hammer back. And I had a good dinner. Let's go home."
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But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane. You know?
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Few of us now have seen the stars as folk saw them then--our cities and towns cast too much light into the night--but, from the village of Wall, the stars were laid out like worlds or like ideas, uncountable as the trees in a forest or the leaves on a tree. Tristan would stare into the darkness of the sky until he thought of nothing at all, and then he would go back to his bed and sleep like a dead man.
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ourselves in those moments, where the trigger has been squeezed, is this: the past is not dead. There are things that wait for us, patiently, in the dark corridors of our lives. We think we have moved on, put them out of mind, left them to desiccate and shrivel and blow away; but we are wrong. They have been waiting there in the darkness, working out, practicing their most vicious blows, their sharp hard thoughtless punches into the gut, ki..
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We must have bearers, and outriders, and perhaps an elephant -- they are so imposing, nothing says 'Get out of the way' quite like an elephant in the front . . .
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elephants
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Mr. Croup began to laugh. It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.
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Mrs. Whitaker found the Holy Grail; it was under a fur coat.
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humor
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