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Will grinned. “Some of these books are dangerous, ” he said. “It’s wise to be careful.”“ One must always be careful of books, ” said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”“ I’m not sure a book has ever changed me, ” said Will. “Well, there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep–”“ Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry, ” said Tessa.Cassandra Clare
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You don’t have any friends, your sister dumped you, you’re a freak eater.and you’ve got some weird thing about Simon Snow.""I object to every single thing you just said." Reagan chewed. And frowned. She was wearing dark red lipstick." I have lots of friends, " Cath said." I never see them."" I just got here. Most of my friends went to other schools. Or they’re online."" Internet friends don’t count."" Why not?" Reagan shrugged disdainfully." And I don’t have a weird thing with Simon Snow, " Cath said. "I’m just really active in the fandom."" What the fuck is ‘the fandom’? .Rainbow Rowell
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She'd just thrown gasoline on the fire. Now it was up to fandom to keep it burning.Danika Stone
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Like most modern people, we no longer bothered to make the distinction between events in real life and the dramas of fictional worlds, and so the cliff-hanger that inevitably, reliably ended the hour held just as much or more importance to us as the newspaper that usually went from doorstep to garbage bin unread, and we speculated about the future lives of the characters that populated decayed mansions or desert isles as if they weren't inventions of other human minds.Dexter Palmer
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The world of technology has made it easier for people to get in touch with their modern muses regardless of the genres that they are trying to utilize and even if they create a new genre based on a mixing of others. The potential for modern-day muses is as vast as individual creativity.Kytka HilmarJezek
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She was determined to keep her promise of 'no fandom' to her mother. Trouble was, fandom was more than a hobby, it was a support system. Without it, Liv had no one to talk to when she was lonely. She had nothing to look forward to after school, and no outlet for creativity. Liv found herself spiraling back into melancholy. She got up. She went to classes. She came home.. And then did it all over again. Sleep became the escape that fandom had once been. .Danika Stone
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Thanks. Seriously, you must have better things to do with your life than waste it on the hopeless?'' I've already learned Parseltongue. What else is there?'' Elvish.Michelle Hodkin
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There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.Margaret Atwood
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His features made him look striking, and I wondered if that was actually his personality.Binta Userkaf
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How many people make a career out of writing anyway?' Cath snapped. She felt like everything inside her was snapping. Her nerves. Her temper. Her esophagus. 'I'll write because I love it, the way other people knit or .. . or scrapbook. And I'll find some other way to make money.Rainbow Rowell
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But I don't want to write my own fiction, ' Cath said, as emphatically as she could. 'I don't want to write my own characters or my own worlds -- I don't care about them.. .. I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing.Rainbow Rowell
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My only companion from the outside world during nineteen years of isolation has been my personal hatred of Thursday Next. It's kind of like the old me suddenly taking over, and I promised myself that this was how I would act if I ever saw you.' 'I have the same thing, but with Tom Stoppard, ' I said. 'You'd kill Tom Stoppard?' 'Not at all. I promised myself many years ago that I would throw myself at his feet and scream "I'm not worthy! " if I ever met him, so now if we're ever at the same party or something, I have to be at pains to avoid him. It would be undignified, you see–for him and for me.Jasper Fforde
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To call the place an anthill would be like calling the Versailles Palace a single-family home. Earthen ramparts rose almost to the tops of the surrounding trees--a hundred feet at least. The circumference could have accommodated a Roman hippodrome. A steady stream of soldiers and drones swarmed in and out of the mound. Some carried fallen trees. One, inexplicably, was dragging a 1967 Chevy Impala.Rick Riordan