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- The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call…
- She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree…
- When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant, incisive and in…
- She, too, spoke only when the queen or king addressed her first, but she looked searchingly at every supplicant, and her clear face said that…
- So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread…
- What you describe is how it happens to everyone: magic does slide through you, and disappear, and come back later looking like something else. And…
- My books happen. They tend to blast in from nowhere, seize me by the throat, and howl 'Write me! Write me now!' But they rarely…
- One day" she told them, "when you have retired, you will go to live with a family who will love you for your beauty and…
- ...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.
- My sheets had never been so clean as they had in the past few months. I hardly got them on again before something else happened…
- People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them…
- It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.
- Why do you tell me... so much?" Luthe considered her. "I tell you... some you need to know, and some you have earned the right…
- Beauty: "You called me beautiful last night." Beast: "You do not believe me then?" Beauty: "Well - no. Any number of mirrors have told me…
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster