I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
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Andrew Solomon
Stairs, " Valkyrie said, disappointed." Not just ordinary stairs, " Skulduggery told her as he led the way down. "Magic stairs."" Really?"" Oh, yes." She followed him into the darkness. "How are they magic?"" They just are."" In what way?"" In a magicky way." She...
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Derek Landy
What ho! " I said." What ho! " said Motty."What ho! What ho! "" What ho! What ho! What ho! " After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.
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P.g. Wodehouse
Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.
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Pete Wentz
Corrival looked around. 'So is this it? Is everyone here? Erskine, maybe you should start the ball rolling. I have places to go and things to do.'' Me?' Ravel asked. 'Why do I have to start it? You're the most respected mage here. You start...
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Derek Landy
More Quotes By Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.
The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and...
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
