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“Do you ever get the feeling that something awful might happen?' James asked me. . . I sat up. 'I'm the awful thing that happens.”

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Maggie Stiefvater

Maggie Stiefvater is an American author known for her young adult novels. Her most famous works include 'The Scorpio Races' and 'The Raven Cycle'. Stiefvater's writing is celebrated for its unique narrative style and deep portrayal of the natural environment. more

“I hear voices. A shout. A laugh. Clay's laugh. I strained to see through the night. Fog had rolled in from Lake Ontario, but I could hear him laughing. The concrete turned to grass. The fog wasn't from the lake, but from a pond. Our pond. I was at Stonehaven, bounding through the back acres. Clay was running ahead of me.”

Running Night Voice Laughing Grass Lakes Concrete Fog Clay Ponds Acres Ontario

Book:Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings

Source: Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings

“You may be sure that if you succeed in bringing your audience into the presence of something that affects them, they will not care by what road you brought them there; and they will never reproach you for having excited their emotions in spite of dramatic rules.”

Ifs May Care Emotion Audience Succeed Excited Dramatic Spite Reproach

Book:Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II

Source: Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II

“The theory must not contradict empirical facts.”

Facts Theory

Book:A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”

World Two Tree Curiosity Forests New World Doorways Forests And Trees Pine Trees Arbor Day Two Trees

Author:John Muir

“It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.”

Humans Heart Children Whole Helping Feelings Home Given Easy Voice Race Seeing Arms Ears Hearing Your Children Human Race Live Your Life Lap His Smile

Book:Ender in Exile

Source: Ender in Exile

“That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes.”

People World Real Home Careers Wall Fame Fake Real World Outside World Money And Fame Fake World

Book:Hidden Empire

Source: Hidden Empire

“Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.”

Reality Memories Possibility Hideous

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.”

Ifs Action Exercise Our Actions Absent Epicureanism

Book:The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

Source: The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

“As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.”

Years Children Has Beens School Felt Enjoy Teacher Violence Truth Is Fourth Could Have Been Public School Posters Public Education Truth Be Told

Author:Christopher Moore

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