The Whisperer

Hello, fellow traveler. Welcome to the Cave of The Whisperer. if you dare to enter this realm, you will find yourself surrounded by the whispers of books. But don't be afraid, rememember that these are just books and they will only try to change you.

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Love is a path lined with roses. But it leads to a cliff's edge and all who follow it tumble to their doom. You will not find your happiness there.

The Forbidden Wish, Jessica Khoury

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Cruelty, I understand. But kindness frightens me, for my defenses are weak against it.

The Forbidden Wish, Jessica Khoury

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The price of every lie is that the truth will always come out.

The Forbidden Wish, Jessica Khoury

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Because happiness itself is a mythical construct, a dream you humans tell yourselves to get through each day. It is the moon, and you, like the sun, pursue it relentlessly, chasing it around and around, getting nowhere.

The Forbidden Wish, Jessica Khoury

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You can’t choose what happens to you, but you can choose who you become because of it.

The Forbidden Wish, Jessica Khoury

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As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies.

The Forbidden Wish, Jessica Khoury

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The things that were once sweet to me are now bitter. The sun is not half so bright. The stars seem dimmer. All this wealth and luxury feels meaningless. All the world is in your shadow, Zahra. I cannot help but see you when I close my eyes.

The Forbidden Wish, Jessica Khoury

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Ships are my arrows, the sea my bow, the world my target.

Storm and Silence, Robert Thier

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I would prefer a sword to fight duel, but a pen to plan a war.

Storm and Silence, Robert Thier

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If this is not a happy ending, it is perhaps a happy beginning.

Willow, Julia Hoban

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Wind does not need translation. It speaks the language of men, of animals and birds, of rocks and trees and earth and sky and water. It does not eat or sleep, or take shelter from the weather. It is the weather. And it lives.

Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow, Jessica Day George

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It's hard to keep a secret when it's written all over your body.

Willow, Julia Hoban

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And the prince who had once been a bear pulled close the girl who had once had no name, and kissed her.

Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow, Jessica Day George

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Even when this world is a forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will always love you.

Empire of Storms, Sarah J. Maas

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It’s one thing to wander in the darkness because you know no different, but it’s quite another to enjoy the light only to have it taken from you.

The Book of Life, Deborah Harkness

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The world will be saved and remade by the dreamers.

Empire of Storms, Sarah J. Maas

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I just figured out why someone would want to make the first mirror... I think some lover wanted his beloved to see how she appeared to him. He wanted her to be able to see herself the way that he did.

Willow, Julia Hoban