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- The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
- We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
- Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences…
- How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family…
- Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for…
- I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.
- I've always been aware of the otherworld, of spirits that exist in that twilight place that lies in the corner of our eyes, of fairie…
- I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that…
- I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the…
- It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself,…
- I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write…
- Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a…
- The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like…
- Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
- There's stories and then there's stories. The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but once you've heard…
- People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach a painting in…
- There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one…
- There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a…
- As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want…
- I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at a theater or…
- Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them.…
- Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.
- The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether…
- Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small…
- I don't think the world is the way we like to think it is. I don't think it's one solid world, but many, thousands upon…
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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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