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“Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...”

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Gregory Maguire is an American novelist known for his reinterpretation of classic fairy tales. His works are characterized by profound moral implications and rich imagination, which have won him a wide audience. more

“When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib.For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives",and so in every crisis he has got to do what the "natives" expect of him.He wears a mask and his face grows to fit it.”

Men Trying Faces Turns Grows White Conditions Figures Fit Crisis Mask Tyrants Conventional Impress White Man Hollow Posing Dummy

Author:George Orwell

“Do you believe in love after last sight?”

Believe Lasts Sight Believe In Love Beautiful Chaos

Author:Kami Garcia

“Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.”

Way Childhood Butterfly Mathematician Equations Like A Butterfly

Book:Deathless

Source: Deathless

“I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad.”

Want Be Good Get Up

Book:You read to me, I'll read to you

Source: You read to me, I'll read to you

“It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.”

Years Secret Jealous Thirteen Thirteen Year Olds

Book:Deathless

Source: Deathless

“The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.”

Waiting Identity Lovers Punctual

Author:Roland Barthes

“All his life Robert Grainier would remember vividly the burned valley at sundown, the most dreamlike business he’d ever witnessed waking—the brilliant pastels of the last light overhead, some clouds high and white, catching daylight from beyond the valley, others ribbed and gray and pink, the lowest of them rubbing the peaks of Bussard and Queen mountains; and beneath this wondrous sky the black valley, utterly still, the train moving through it making a great noise but unable to wake this dead world.”

World Stills Light Lasts Remember Moving Black White Sky Mountain Train Clouds Brilliant Noise Queens Gray Valleys Waking Burned Lowest Catching Daylight Wondrous Overhead Pastel

Book:Train Dreams

Source: Train Dreams

“Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as they were good lies, full of kisses and daring escapes and the occasional act of barbarism. I can’t abide a poor liar.”

Ifs Writing Long Said I Can Care Lying Interesting Poor Novel Ought Kissing Liars Daring Lied Occasional Barbarism Good Lies

Book:Deathless

Source: Deathless

“It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war.”

War Might Left Bits Tree Treats Blades

Book:Train Dreams

Source: Train Dreams

“And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only one time, for everything, one time for every purpose under heaven. One single second, one single landscape, in which what happens activates and deactivates what has already happened in endless chain reactions, like the processes that take place in the brain, perhaps, where cells suddenly bloom and die away, all according to the way the winds of consciousness are blowing.”

Ifs Way Done Reality Happens Past Purpose Dies Heaven Process Brain Consciousness Happened Wind Endless Reactions Chains Cells Landscape One Time Activate Chain Reactions

Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

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