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“If you don't like vampire games, don't play”

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Vivian Vande Velde is an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for her unique and imaginative works. Born on June 18, 1951, she has been writing since the 1970s and has published numerous novels and short story collections. more

“My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.”

Years Heart Born Half Century My Heart Mets Clothes Naked Shirts Chairs Tonight Lullaby Half A Century

Book:And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

Source: And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

“Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and sometimes for the consolation of knowing that whatever else went wrong, at least she liked her clothes.”

Sometimes Knowing Clothes Consolation

Book:War for the Oaks: A Novel

Source: War for the Oaks: A Novel

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”

Light Darkness Light And Dark Darkness To Light Light Dark Beautiful Books Street Lights Darkness In Life

Author:Bram Stoker

“He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.”

Lost Forget Blind Treasure Can Not Blindness Juliet Romeo And Juliet Play Romeo Juliet Romeo And Juliet Juliet Eyesight Romeo And Juliet Romeo

Book:3 by Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet and Richard III

Source: 3 by Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet and Richard III

“Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.”

Lasts Philosophical

Book:The Human Stain: A Novel

Source: The Human Stain: A Novel

“Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.”

Mean Book Different Hard Break Five Return Twenties Mad Library Covered Cents Petty Loan Twenty Five Mad At Him

Author:John Steinbeck

“If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other has learned the positions, and it is high time that I take advantage of this and promptly begin with the quadrille--people would presumably laugh a little at him, but in the world of spirit this is very plausible. What, then, is education? I believed it is the course the individual goes through in order to catch up with himself, and the person who will not go through this course is not much helped by being born in the most enlightened age.”

People Ifs World Littles Persons Age Wanted Spirit Order Courses Individual Born Laughing Generations Century Position Advantage Enlightened Plausible

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

Giving Persons Book Give Me Inspired Fabulous My Best Friend Library Books Libraries And Reading

Author:Abraham Lincoln

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