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- These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who…
- First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds…
- At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much,…
- You're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing.
- ... I did not set out to be beloved and just, only strong." 'A King can be better than that," the Prince insisted. "And so…
- To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the…
- ...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness.
- Marya Morevna! Don't you know anything? Girls must be very, very careful to care only for ribbons and magazines and wedding rings. They must sweep…
- I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories. A war…
- Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost children always find…
- All stories must end so, with the next tale winking out of the corners of the last pages, promising more, promising moonlight and dancing and…
- Who are you?" "I am Death," said the creature. "I thought that was obvious." "But you're so small!" "Only because you are small. You are…
- The world is not made of countries and outsiders. We are all just humans, and most of us fools and all of us longing for…
- But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their…
- September could see it. She did not know what is was she saw. That is the disadvantage of being a heroine, rather than a narrator.…
- I have made calculations that would beggar your soul. What is it that villains always say at the end of stories? You and I are…
- Yes, yes, mistress, I shall go and accomplish your task. Only—I was not only sent to kill the Leucrotta. There is a maiden in a…
- Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a…
- I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more…
- One of the many quotes on love..."Love can come only with time and sentience. We learn it as we learn language--and some never learn it…
- I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire—well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy and full of…
- You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat.…
- Once more September marveled that even the Dodo knew what she wanted to be when she was grown. She simply could not think what she…
- You know, in Fairyland-Above they said that the underworld was full of devils and dragons. But it isn’t so at all! Folk are just folk,…
- I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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