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“I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?”

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Robin McKinley is an American children's literature author known for her modern interpretations of myths and legends. Her works, rich in imagination and deep emotion, have won the hearts of readers worldwide. more

“For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in the other. Past the border of a fiery life lies the netherworld. I can trace this road, which took me through places so hot the very air burned the lungs. I did not turn back. I pressed on, and eventually passed over the border, beyond which lies a place that is wordless and cold, so cold that it, like mercury, burns a freezing blue flame.”

Long I Can Past Lying Turns Passion Air Cold Long Time Opposites Hot Blue Borders Flames Burned Lungs Fiery Mercury Implicit Freezing

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then, amusing things happened in battle, as they did in the rest of life. Some of the funniest things he had ever witnessed had occurred during battles. He had always found it more satisfying to laugh on a battlefield than anywhere else, for if you lived to laugh on a battlefield, you could feel you had earned the laugh. But if you just laughed in a saloon, or at a social, the laugh didn't reach deep.”

Ifs Feels Found Social Laughing Fate Happened Terrible Battle Laughed Satisfying Yankees Amusement Incidents Amusing Battlefields Rest Of Life Saloons

Author:Larry McMurtry

“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”

Can Do Change Life Changing Don't Change Graveyard

Author:Neil Gaiman

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