February 2012
17 posts
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“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I...”
– Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.
— The Fellowship of the Ring, J. R. R. Tolkien
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“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition...”
– “The Weight of Glory,” C. S. Lewis
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“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in...”
– Dune, Frank Herbert
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“I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been...”
– Hazel’s dad, The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
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“Kissing in front of the loveless is an act of cruelty.”
– Linger, Maggie Stiefvater
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“It is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than...”
– Peter Van Houten, The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
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“When we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of...”
– Peter Van Houten, The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
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“I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a...”
– Hazel (Grace), The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
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“A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at...”
– The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
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“There is no better taste than this: someone else’s laughter in your mouth.”
– Forever, Maggie Stiefvater
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“All get what they want: they do not always like it.”
– Aslan, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, C. S. Lewis
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“Oh Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might...”
– Aslan, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, C. S. Lewis
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“There are some battles in life which a human being must fight alone.”
– “A Respectable Woman,” Kate Chopin
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“I never saw a worse paper in my life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns...”
– “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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“Yes, I said pray and rest. Even if it is only words that you pray, and even if...”
– Father Vincent, Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
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“He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a...”
– “A Mystery of Heroism,” Stephen Crane
January 2012
26 posts
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“Funny thing, talking to ghosts. You can’t tell if you’re making up...”
– The Colonel, Looking for Alaska, John Green
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“Salt coats my lips, crusts my eyelashes. I feel the cold press against my body....”
– Sean Kendrick, The Scorpio Races, Maggie Stiefvater
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“Men must endure their going hence even as their coming hither.”
– Edgar, King Lear, William Shakespeare
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“There are moments that you’ll remember for the rest of your life and there are...”
– The Scorpio Races, Maggie Stiefvater
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“I was alone and orphaned, in the middle of the Pacific, hanging on to an oar, an...”
– Pi, The Life of Pi, Yann Martel
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“The Prince of Darkness is a gentleman.”
– Edgar, King Lear, William Shakespeare
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“That moment, the music screeched to a halt. There was an ungodly collision of...”
– Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
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“I hate ordinary people!”
– Jo, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
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“I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated...”
– Pudge, Looking for Alaska, John Green
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“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At...”
– Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis
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“Today I shall meet cruel men, cowards and liars, the envious and the drunken....”
– Psyche, Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis
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* * * HERE IS A SMALL FACT * * * You are going to die.
I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about the whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me, no matter my protestations. Please, trust me. I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that’s only the A’s. Just don’t ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing...
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“As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer...”
– “Self-Reliance,” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
– “Self-Reliance,” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Lear: Dost thou call me "fool," boy?
Fool: All thy other titles thou hast given away.
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“A world is supported by four things: the learning of the wise, the justice of...”
– Reverend Mother, Dune, Frank Herbert
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“Of the things that followed I cannot at all say whether they were what men call...”
– Orual, Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis
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“The world is made up not only of what is but of what might be.”
– Weston, Perelandra, C. S. Lewis
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“Come at once if convenient—if inconvenient come all the same.”
– Sherlock Holmes, “The Adventure of the Creeping Man,” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
– The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C. S. Lewis
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“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
– George Weasley, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J. K. Rowling
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“This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune...”
– Edmund, King Lear, William Shakespeare
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a...”
– Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
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“Stories have changed, my dear boy. There are no more battles between good and...”
– Mr. A. H—, The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
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“You’re getting your weird all over me.”
– Cole to Sam, Forever, Maggie Stiefvater
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“I’d always hoped that when I finally said “I love you” to a...”
– Simon, City of Bones, Cassandra Clare