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5201 quotes by 2862 authors
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Far more often [than asking the question 'Is it true?'] they [children] have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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That's your solution? Have a cookie?' Astrid asked. 'No, my solution is to run down to the beach and hide out until this is all…
— Michael Grant
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May I search it?" she asked. "We screen for weapons." I stared at her, always a risky thing to do to a vampire. "Of course…
— Charlaine Harris
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Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. Have you ever asked yourself…
— Cassandra Clare
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I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,†she mused. “Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: ‘Oh,…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding. "Isosceles," Jack quipped.
— Amanda Hocking
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You asked how I can be so calm. I don't have time not to be. I would like to grieve and worry and carry on,…
— Maria V. Snyder
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If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked…
— C.S. Lewis
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I suppose you could call me...Soot," said the thing. "Yes...Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it…
— Garth Nix
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I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage was over and…
— Edwin A. Abbott
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I've been in love with you since the very beginning. You asked why there isn't anyone else in my life, and the reason... is you"…
— Julie James
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Our listeners asked us: "What is chaos?" We're answering: "We do not comment on economic policy.
— John Vaillant
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I have studied many religions, many different persuasions of thought in Christian belief, and I have come, in this experience to this: the most important…
— Dale Evans
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do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?†“Good for what?†asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless…
— Henry James
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I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining of two people.…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Do you know where Jason is?†she asked Dmitri when they exited the morgue. Dmitri pressed the car remote to unlock the flame red Ferrari…
— Nalini Singh
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The gossip will carry to Attolian spies, who will report to Relius, Attolia's master of spies, and he will carry the news to her." "Her…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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When I went to stay with I’m, he asked me for something of my fathers to make the tracking easier. I gave him the Morgenstern…
— Cassandra Clare
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You didn't know I could do that, did you?" he asked, conversationally. "I did not, Your Majesty," Teleus gasped. "My grandfather killed a man that…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows
— Timothy Keller
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