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“Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.”

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Augusten Burroughs is an American writer born on October 23, 1965. Known for his memoirs, his works, such as 'Dry' and 'Running with Scissors,' have gained widespread popularity and critical acclaim. more

“He smiled at that, and then his gaze shifted to a spot over my shoulder and it faded. 'These doubts wouldn’t have anything to do with the company you’re keeping of late, would they?' I didn’t get a chance to answer before the shop door was thrown open and a furious war mage stomped in. Pritkin spotted me and his eyes narrowed. 'You shaved my legs?!' Mircea looked at me and folded his arms across his chest. I looked from one unhappy face to the other and suddenly remembered that I had somewhere else to be.”

War Eye Faces Romance Chance Answers Company Doubt Doors Arms Late Legs Shoulders Unhappy Spots Remembered His Eyes Shops Thrown Chests Somewhere Else Furious Faded

Book:Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5

Source: Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5

“The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.”

“The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.”

Thinking Strong Precarious

Author:David Levithan

“A year. A thousand kisses. And now a thousand one, a thousand two. There are so many other place we could have ended up, but I have to believe none of them would have felt this right. "All I want is you" is not entirely true. I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it.”

Thinking Want Years Believe I Can Two Felt Thousand Kissing Realm Of Possibility

Book:The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

“Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.”

Love Moments Remember Given Possibility Thousand Inspirational Love Moments In Time Realm Of Possibility

Author:David Levithan

“We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay.”

Ifs Knows Matter Used Possibility Realm Of Possibility

Book:The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

“You will always be my always.”

Author:David Levithan

“I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is.”

Knows I Can Love Is

Book:The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

“The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before.Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid.”

Source: Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian

“Everything rests on the poisoned wine. If it were just the queen, I could force it down her gullet, but Declan Broekhart would run me through with that damned ceremonial sword, and if his wife's stares were daggers, he'd be dead already.”

Ifs Running Force Wife Wine Staring Queens Daggers

Author:Eoin Colfer

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