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“Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don't forget we loved it when we were alive.”

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Gregory Maguire is an American novelist known for his reinterpretation of classic fairy tales. His works are characterized by profound moral implications and rich imagination, which have won him a wide audience. more

“That kind of tenderness couldn't be permitted to last. You only got a taste, enough to know what perfection meant, and then you paid for it the rest of your life. Like the guy chained to a rock, who stole fire. The gods made an eagle eat his liver for all eternity. You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.”

Knows Kind Made Enough Lasts Guy Fire Rocks Taste Perfection Eternity Paid Stealing Tenderness Eagles Rest Of Your Life Liver Every Second Chained

Book:Paint It Black

Source: Paint It Black

“I wondered if the Demon that whispered "Why not be free?" was Freedom itself.”

Ifs Demon Why Not

Author:Inio Asano

“Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another.”

Humans Stories Age Night Culture Forget Behinds Path Car Losing Lonely Leaving Woods Opening Conventional Breaking Down Terminal Lonely Roads

Author:Iain Banks

“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.”

Motivational Simple Inspiring Discipline Judgment Weight Errors Fortune Influential

Author:Jim Rohn

“We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.”

Pain

Book:Exegetical Fallacies

Source: Exegetical Fallacies

“please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.”

Believe Enough Happiness Please Always Believe Perks Soon Enough Perks Of A Wallflower

Book:The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.”

World Way Has Beens Age Today Jesus Christ Church Memories Worship Jesus Christ Flesh Prophet Friday Crucifixion Good Friday

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

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