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When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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The day came when she discovered sex, sensuality, and literature; she said, 'I submit! Let my life be henceforth ruled by poetry. Let me reign as the queen of my dreams until I become nothing less than the heroine of God.

~ Roman Payne

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Defeat the demons of self-doubt and self-loathing by being your own hero/heroine of self-compassion.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

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She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire.

~ Anna Godbersen

Anna Godbersen Desire Heroine Love Romance

From the moment I’ve met you, I’ve tried to play the hero in your story. But the closer I get to you, the more I realize that you don’t need one.

~ Tessa Clare

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Turn the page, your heroine is still there, breathe, relax, life is beautiful: you're in a book!

~ Gabrielle Dubois

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It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You.

~ Veronica Roth

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Letti wasn’t born to pass through the world. She had been born to sit atop of it.

~ S.r. Crawford

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The thought of talking about it made Pueblo's gut ache, but then he thought of everything that Amy had been through – not that she'd told him her version yet. She had balls of steel, he thought with a smile. And what did he have? Three pairs of loin cloths going crisp on the radiator.

~ Dianna Hardy

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We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

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It has been said that Shakespeare, the great delineator of human character, has failed in distinguishing his principal women—and that such as he meant to be amiable are all equally gentle and good. How difficult then it is for a novelist to give to one of his heroines any very marked feature which shall not disfigure her! Too much reason and self-command destroy the interest we take in her distresses. It has been observed, that Clarissa is so equal to every trial as to diminish our pity. Other virtues than gentleness, pity, filial obedience, or faithful attachment, hardly belong to the sex.

~ Charlotte Turner Smith

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When she turned I could see her face was plain and outwardly unremarkable, yet possessing of a bearing that showed inner strength and resolve. I stared at her intently with a mixture of feelings. I had realised not long ago that I was no beauty, and even at the age of nine had seen how the more attractive children gained favour more easily. But here in that young woman I could see how those principles could be inverted. I felt myself stand more upright and clench my jaw in subconscious mimicry of her pose

~ Jasper Fforde

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Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.

~ Irvine Welsh

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Give her books, where other people did all the running around and courting; it was far easier to read about such matters than to experience them herself.

~ Sophie Dash

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I am Mae Waylander from Halts-Walden, daughter of Robert Wallander, a good man who lost his life saving hers.' I point to Ellen. 'And I am the girl who has saved your brother's life on numerous occasions in the Waerg Woods - who fought off a wood nymph, a psychotic pre-adolescent prophet, and a determined flock of killer birds - only to have your father shoot an arrow in my side because I wouldn't let him kill my stag.

~ Sarah Dalton

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I am Mae Waylander from Halts-Walden, daughter of Robert Waylander, a good man who lost his life saving hers.' I point to Ellen. 'And I am the girl who has saved your brother's life on numerous occasions in the Waerg Woods - who fought off a wood nymph, a psychotic pre-adolescent prophet, and a determined flock of killer birds - only to have your father shoot an arrow in my side because I wouldn't let him kill my stag.

~ Sarah Dalton

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It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy it -- in our own small ways -- by every choice we make and every tiniest action resulting from that c

~ Vera Nazarian

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Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughlyknown; we have only to follow the thread of the heropath. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, weshall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

~ Joseph Campbell

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The Coward will run away from danger, only to strike in the dark. The Heroine will run through the dark, even though she knows the coward is waiting to strike.

~ David A. Cleinman

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Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to be.

~ Shannon Hale

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A hero: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition, and resolves to do something about it.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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. I felt the sun graze my face as I sped further and further from it all. The only negative part about running was that at some point I knew I’d have to stop. I’d have to turn around and go back. And whatever troubles had haunted me when I left, would be waiting upon my return.

~ Courtney Giardina

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Living in that castle was like being condemned to Hell before I’d even had the opportunity to sin.

~ Kristen Reed

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You haven’t lived till you’ve played Scrabble in a psych ward.

~ Artie Lange

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That poor innocent snake was far more terrified of Nana then she ever was of the snake. Cricket could barely believe her eyes, but when that shotgun went off with a boom so did the snake. Up until yesterday, Cricket had never seen a snake fly!

~ Darwun St. James

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I know you’re tired…but this is your time, Laney. Claim your power. Make everything…from the beginning until the end…make it all count.

~ R. W. Patterson

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Protector and destroyer were two sides of the same coin. Who knew which one would come out in a toss-up?

~ Mina Khan

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When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear

~ S.f. Chandler

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That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed took their fate into their own hands.

~ Anna Godbersen

Anna Godbersen Fate Heroine Novels

Books allow us to escape from the pressures of modern life. By far, the best vehicles of escape are Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy genre allowing us to lose ourselves in worlds far away from the reality we know. This escapism works because we totally immerse ourselves and:-We become the hero or heroine. We are the ones who thwart evil. We laugh as we socialise with characters we have never met but feel they are as close as our family. We cry when we lose a good friend.

~ Peter Graham

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I wouldn’t joke if you weren’t always patching me up,” Davin retorted. He looked at Chad again. “You must have noticed, right? It’s kind of cute, actually.” Though my heart fluttered, I tried to shoot him a warning glare. He ignored me. “I like to call her Doctor Fisher.

~ J.m. Richards

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We are not always shaped by our parents, Cas. We're shaped by our choices.

~ Sarah Dalton

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One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters.

~ C.s. Lewis

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They are soldiers. They depend upon routine, and anything out of the ordinary will give them pause. And they are men. They hate to be insulted, but they love to hear others mocked. And they are fools, because they cannot imagine that a woman alone in the woods would be a threat.

~ Kiersten White

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Wanderess, Wanderess, weave us a story of seduction and ruse. Heroic be the Wanderess, the world be her muse.

~ Roman Payne

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The heroine might be unsure. And the reader. But I don’t think the author should be.

~ Paul Park

Paul Park Author Heroine

People who love do the impossible all the time.

~ Germaine Shames

Germaine Shames Heroine Love Love Story

The stars beckoned. And she had to go.

~ Aleks Canard

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The old, defiant chant rose in her mind: If I want, I will learn. If I want, I will fight. If I want, I will live. And I want. And I will. This was going to be fun.

~ P.c. Hodgell

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I mean it, it’s another gap in your education. Until you can learn to understand her, you’ll get nowhere as a detective. She’s everybody’s conscience, Bob—the universal maiden aunt, cousin or sister. Humanity’s backbone. Throughout history, she’s gone to the stake for you again and again; not with any sense of heroism, but as a matter of principle and because it would never occur to her to do anything else.

~ Heron Carvic

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