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“Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, born on September 25, 1964, is a renowned Spanish novelist known for his unique literary style and profound depiction of Barcelona. more

“I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into a stone and falling down into the ground. That did work a little. But in my visualization a plant covered with poison berries would grow out of the stone, whether I wanted it to or not.”

Littles Wanted Fall Grows Stones Plant Clouds Smoke Noses Poison Brown Covered Going Out Falling Down Visualization Berries Boiling

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.”

Love Is Pissed Off

Book:The Year Of The Flood

Source: The Year Of The Flood

“She looked so beautiful in the moonlight, but it wasn't only the way she looked, it was what was inside her, everything from her intelligence and courage to her wit, and the special smile she gave only to him. He would slay a dragon, if there were such a thing, just to see that smile. He knew he would never want anyone else for as long as he lived. He would rather spend the rest of his life alone than with someone else. There could be no one else.”

Ifs Way Want Long Beautiful Special Wit Dragons Moonlight

Author:Terry Goodkind

“I imagine you working on me as an algebra problem, reducing me to fractions, crossing out common denominators, until there's nothing left on the page but a line that says x = whatever it is that is wrong with me.”

Problem Left Lines Common Imagine Pages Reducing Crossings Fractions Algebra Common Denominator

Book:Cut

Source: Cut

“Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.”

People Said Stills Ideas Soul Reason Used Alive Imagine Consequence Sentences Immortality Grammar

Author:Margaret Atwood

“His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.”

Heart Long Dying Long Words

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“When you see a small change in your life it means its a huge change in personality and your trait”

Mean Huge Personality Traits Small Changes Huge Changes

Author:Natasha Friend

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