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You, what are you? The brat of lucky parents who were related to a childless king. There is no such thing as royal blood. I believe we are what we make ourselves, and as such, you, Crown Princess, are nothing. (Shannon Hale)
It's not something you tell your single best friend. It'd be like rubbing your nose in the poop of my happiness. View quote
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Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan. View quote
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I can see that one can never pay back Gilsa for the fear that she will give again. View quote
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Get back in my cot, girl," said Gilsa. "You're sickly." No, I'm not," said Ani. Oh, no? Well, maybe stubbornness is a sickness, did you ever think of that? View quote
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Does anyone smell roasting meat?' said Razo, 'Oh, wait, it's just Geric's face. View quote
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He nodded. "And if I don't make you feel like the most beautiful woman in the world every day of your life, then I don't deserve to be near you. View quote
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No small thing, a bee's sting When it enters the heart Not so benign, the growing vine When it tears stone apart. View quote
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Saying my story makes me want to change it, make it sound pretty the way I do with the stories I tell the workers. I'd like it to have a beginning as grand as a ball and an ending in a whisper, like a mother tucking in a child for sleep. View quote
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I need to admit up front that I don't know how to have a fling. I'm not good at playing around and then saying good-bye. I'm throwing myself at your feet because I'm hoping for a shot at forever." Henry Jenkins/Mr. Nobley. View quote
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No matter that we could be beheaded for this,” said Esa. "Heads are overrated.” "Yes, they are so unfashionable,” said Miri, imitating an Aslandian accent. "This spring, ladies of style are wearing their feathers in their necks. (Shannon Hale)
Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion... View quote
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The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think about it practically, I am glad it's a struggle. I am (as usual) attempting to write a book that's too hard for me. I'm telling a story I'm not smart enough to tell. The risk of failure is huge. But I prefer it this way. I'm forced to learn, forced to smarten myself up, forced to wrestle. And if it works, then I'll have written something that is better than I am. View quote
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Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts. View quote
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Look no farther than your hand, Make a choice and take a stand. View quote
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I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down. View quote
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I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-" "It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule. View quote
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What? Don't British women know how to use their knees? View quote
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As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient. View quote
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It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did. View quote
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Her nightmare clung to her like the smell of smoke to cloth. (Shannon Hale)
Sometimes one does not mean to fall in love. Sometimes it just happens. View quote
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I couldn't see what was real until time had washed away everything else. View quote
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Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life. View quote
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I'm not hopeless, that's the problem. I'm too hopeful, if anything ... I'm so thick-headed it's taken me this long to give up on men, but I can't give up completely, you know? So I ... I channel all my hope into an idea, to someone who can't reject me because he isn't real! View quote
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