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Everyone knows: people who cross boarders do so for a reason.

~ M.d. Elster

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When one finds oneself in the kind of strange, unsettling circumstances as I presently find myself, it is only natural, after all, to have a few, unusual, vivid dreams.

~ M.d. Elster

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She says affection is all very well being imagined, like a romantic fancy, but marriage should be based on practical purposes in order to last longer.

~ Aya Ling

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The hours wear on, while the surreal atmosphere of the asylum does not wear off.

~ M.d. Elster

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Have I... I venture, terrified of the potential answer. Have I gone mad? No, no, no. She says. Okay, oui, peut-être, that depends. Maybe you have gone a little mad, and only for a little spell.

~ M.d. Elster

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Find me, my thief.

~ Jessica Khoury

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For the last few centuries, these jeweled fruits have been my constant and sole companions. The greatest treasure in all the world, as comfortless as light to the blind.

~ Jessica Khoury

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They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction.'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.

~ John Gardner

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All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions.

~ Joseph Conrad

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How does one say something new and not retell?

~ Dejan Stojanovic

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My days are filled with you, and for that I am more grateful than you could ever know

~ Kennedy Vega

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The smiting and righteous retribution happens less often than you would think - Hades

~ Kennedy Vega

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Perhaps being Death's companion would not be the most terrible thing in the world

~ Kennedy Vega

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They had stood against all adversity to be together, and now they would forge their own path to love. She would be Kai’s wife. She would be the Commonwealth’s empress. And she had every intention of being blissfully happy for ever, ever after.

~ Marissa Meyer

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I think that when every person in this room looks at Ze’ev and Scarlet, they don’t see a Lunar and an Earthen. We don’t see an agenda, or two people trying to make a statement. I think we see two people who were lucky enough to find each other in this vast universe, and they weren’t going to let any boundaries of distance or race or even physiological tampering get in the way of a happy life together.

~ Marissa Meyer

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Of course, we know that the world sees this wedding as a historical event. The first recorded marriage union between a Lunar and an Earthen since the second era. And maybe that is important. Maybe the love and compassion these two people have for each other is symbolic of hope for the future. Maybe this wedding signifies the possibility that someday our two races will not only learn to tolerate each other, but to love and appreciate each other as well. Or, maybe…” Kai’s eyes glinted. … this relationship has absolutely nothing to do with politics, and everything to do with our shared human need to find someone who will care for us as much as we care for them. To find a partner who complements us and teaches us. Who makes us stronger. Who makes us want to be our best possible self.

~ Marissa Meyer

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Our stories are not new; yet, in the retelling we are reborn as heroes.

~ Harley King

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But the nightmare was a strange comfort to me; in it, I found a sense of escape, and were it possible to go live in that nightmare, I would have, bizzare though that may sound.

~ M.d. Elster

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A few fires flickered, plumes of dark smoke marring the ruby sky.

~ Sarah J. Maas

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Alice: I didn't know that cheshire cats grinned. In fact, I didn't know that cats could grin.Duchess: They can, and most of 'em do.

~ Rod Espinosa

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It happened so quickly. One minute I was plucking the flower, and the next I was in his chariot immersed in darkness. I struggled to wrench myself free from his grasp and run away. I twisted as far as I could, hoping to see mother chasing after me. But ahead of me, behind me, on either side of me, everywhere I looked, all I could see was darkness.

~ Tamara Agha-Jaffar

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You cruel, hard-hearted gods!” I flung the goblet in his direction. Hermes barely had time to dart out of its way before it hit the wall and shattered to small pieces. “You’re all the same! Hsst! Jealous! Vindictive! That’s what you are! You allow yourselves to take pleasure with any mortal you wish. Let a goddess do the same. Let a goddess choose a mortal for her lover, and you set off in a fury of revenge against her as if her actions are an affront to you. And all the while, you male gods allow yourselves all kinds of liberties you deny to us females.

~ Tamara Agha-Jaffar

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Then, like a shimmering disk too rich and clear to be described, the sun slipped over the horizon and lined everything with gold. It was like seeing the world being born, and we were the sole witnesses.

~ Sarah J. Maas

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If I’m a monster, mademoiselle, it’s because man’s cruelty has made me so.

~ Rachel L. Demeter

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She had not meant to name them, but she could not help herself; and having done so she thought, Let their names be symbols that their lives are worth the keeping. Let them struggle a little the harder, to keep their names.

~ Robin Mckinley

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