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“Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.”

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George MacDonald was a 19th-century Scottish author known for his fantasy literature and religious thought. His works had a profound influence on later writers, such as J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. more

“They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Tristran's heart pounded in his chest as if it was not big enough to contain all the joy that it held. He opened his eyes as he kissed the star. Her sky-blue eyes stared back into his, and in her eyes he could see no parting from her.”

Source: Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie

“Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.' The elf grabbed one of the Jim Beam bottles from the table and slammed it down, so that he was holding a jagged glass neck. The elf smiled a very thin smile. 'Then I won't bother with magic.”

Men Said Magic Fool Tables Blind Glasses Bother Curse Necks Old Man Bottles Laughed Beam Lame

Author:Holly Black

“In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.”

Ifs Knows Heart Ends Reason Values Wish Tradition

Author:Elizabeth Kostova

“The Cyclopes growled, "I don't see very well since the last hero poked my eye out, but you're... NO... LADY... CYCLOPES!”

Wells Eye Lasts Hero

Author:Rick Riordan

“There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.”

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