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@quoted-books
If we address stories as archaeological sites, and dust through their layers with meticulous care, we find at some level there is always a doorway. A dividing point between here and there, us and them, mundane and magical. It is at the moments when the doors open, when things flow between the worlds, that stories happen.
-Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.
Tyler Knott Gregson
He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.
Madeline Miller, Circe
English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.
R.F. Kuang, Babel
We tend to think that the future happens later, but we're creating it in our minds every day. When the present falls apart, so does the future we had associated with it. And having the future taken away is the mother of all plot twists.
Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.
-Iain Thomas, I Wrote This for You
The trick to being abandoned was to never let yourself long for anyone who left.
-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy
It never looked as terrible as it was and it made her wonder if hell was a pretty place too. Fire and brimstone all right, but hidden in lacy gloves. -Beloved, Toni Morrison
Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.
David Levithan, Love is the Higher Law
“True love will triumph in the end – which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it is the most beautiful lie we have.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
“That night it did not rain as much in the sky as it did in his heart.”
— Faraaz Kazi, Truly, Madly, Deeply
“She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there–like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.”
— Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
Heroes don't get happy endings. They give them to other people.
Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart
My mama knew herself, and there’s a fearsome power in that. Knowing exactly who you are and exactly what you’re capable of. Most folks would call it arrogance, I suppose. But most folks are fucking fools.
Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire
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