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Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.
From Lips Touch: Three Times
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Topic: Religion
Anyone who takes on my sister," he had postured once, all puffed-out bravado, "will have to deal with ...my sister." And then he'd dived behind her and cowered.
From Dreams of Gods & Monsters
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Topic: Funny
If you can kill it, or it can kill you, it's real.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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Topic: Death
Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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Topic: Hope
I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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Topic: Life
He looked him right in the eyes and saw a man who was great and good and human, who had done extraordinary things and terrible things and been broken and reassembled as a shell, only then to do the bravest thing of all: He had kept on living, though there are easier paths to take.
From Strange the Dreamer
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Topic: Life
It's not like there's a law against flying."

"Yes there is. The law of gravity.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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Topic: Funny
Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.
From Days of Blood & Starlight
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Topic: Inspirational
I was going to say the beginning is the good part, when it's all sparks and sparkles, before they are inevitably unmasked as assholes.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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Topic: Relationships
He danced with the sky instead, and the sky dropped him like a rotten plum.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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Topic: Death
Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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Topic: Happiness
Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won--some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it--but something to carry doggedly with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and supplies.
From Dreams of Gods & Monsters
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Topic: Happiness
She'd spoken of their happiness as though it were an undeniable fact, no matter what happened--apart from everything else and not subject to it. It was a new idea for him, that happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won--some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it--but something to carry doggedly with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and supplies. Food, weapons, happiness.
With hope that the weapons could in time vanish from the picture.
From Dreams of Gods & Monsters
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Topic: Happiness
What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?
From Days of Blood & Starlight
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Topic: Life, Philosophical
"So," he called to her back, "Just out of curiosity, you know, purely conversation and all, at what age will you be entertaining offers of marriage?"
"You think it'll be so easy?" she called back over her shoulder. "No way. There will be tasks. Like in a fairy tale."
"Sounds dangerous."
"Very, so think twice."
"No need," he said. "You're worth it."
From Days of Blood & Starlight
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Topic: Funny
A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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Topic: Funny
Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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Topic: Hope
But Hazael only said, "I brought you a present."
Liraz took the flower, looked at it, and then a Hazael, expressionless. And then she ate it. She chewed the flower and swallowed it.
"Hmm," said Hazael. "Not the usual response."
"Oh, do you give flowers often?"
"Yes," he said. He probably did. Hazael had a way of enjoying life in spite of the many restrictions they lived under, being soldiers, and worse, being Misbegotten. "I hope it wasn't poisonous," he said lightly.
Liraz just shrugged. "There are worse ways to die.
From Days of Blood & Starlight
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Topic: Death
Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.
From Lips Touch: Three Times
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Topic: Religion
Anyone who takes on my sister," he had postured once, all puffed-out bravado, "will have to deal with ...my sister." And then he'd dived behind her and cowered.
From Dreams of Gods & Monsters
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Topic: Funny
If you can kill it, or it can kill you, it's real.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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Topic: Death
Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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Topic: Hope
I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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Topic: Life
He looked him right in the eyes and saw a man who was great and good and human, who had done extraordinary things and terrible things and been broken and reassembled as a shell, only then to do the bravest thing of all: He had kept on living, though there are easier paths to take.
From Strange the Dreamer
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Topic: Life
It's not like there's a law against flying."

"Yes there is. The law of gravity.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.
From Days of Blood & Starlight
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Topic: Inspirational
I was going to say the beginning is the good part, when it's all sparks and sparkles, before they are inevitably unmasked as assholes.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
He danced with the sky instead, and the sky dropped him like a rotten plum.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won--some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it--but something to carry doggedly with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and supplies.
From Dreams of Gods & Monsters
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Topic: Happiness
She'd spoken of their happiness as though it were an undeniable fact, no matter what happened--apart from everything else and not subject to it. It was a new idea for him, that happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won--some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it--but something to carry doggedly with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and supplies. Food, weapons, happiness.
With hope that the weapons could in time vanish from the picture.
From Dreams of Gods & Monsters
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?
From Days of Blood & Starlight
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Topic: Life, Philosophical
"So," he called to her back, "Just out of curiosity, you know, purely conversation and all, at what age will you be entertaining offers of marriage?"
"You think it'll be so easy?" she called back over her shoulder. "No way. There will be tasks. Like in a fairy tale."
"Sounds dangerous."
"Very, so think twice."
"No need," he said. "You're worth it."
From Days of Blood & Starlight
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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Topic: Funny
Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
But Hazael only said, "I brought you a present."
Liraz took the flower, looked at it, and then a Hazael, expressionless. And then she ate it. She chewed the flower and swallowed it.
"Hmm," said Hazael. "Not the usual response."
"Oh, do you give flowers often?"
"Yes," he said. He probably did. Hazael had a way of enjoying life in spite of the many restrictions they lived under, being soldiers, and worse, being Misbegotten. "I hope it wasn't poisonous," he said lightly.
Liraz just shrugged. "There are worse ways to die.
From Days of Blood & Starlight
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.
From Lips Touch: Three Times
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
Anyone who takes on my sister," he had postured once, all puffed-out bravado, "will have to deal with ...my sister." And then he'd dived behind her and cowered.
From Dreams of Gods & Monsters
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
If you can kill it, or it can kill you, it's real.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
He looked him right in the eyes and saw a man who was great and good and human, who had done extraordinary things and terrible things and been broken and reassembled as a shell, only then to do the bravest thing of all: He had kept on living, though there are easier paths to take.
From Strange the Dreamer
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
It's not like there's a law against flying."

"Yes there is. The law of gravity.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.
From Days of Blood & Starlight
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
I was going to say the beginning is the good part, when it's all sparks and sparkles, before they are inevitably unmasked as assholes.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
He danced with the sky instead, and the sky dropped him like a rotten plum.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won--some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it--but something to carry doggedly with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and supplies.
From Dreams of Gods & Monsters
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
She'd spoken of their happiness as though it were an undeniable fact, no matter what happened--apart from everything else and not subject to it. It was a new idea for him, that happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won--some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it--but something to carry doggedly with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and supplies. Food, weapons, happiness.
With hope that the weapons could in time vanish from the picture.
From Dreams of Gods & Monsters
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?
From Days of Blood & Starlight
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Topic: Life, Philosophical
"So," he called to her back, "Just out of curiosity, you know, purely conversation and all, at what age will you be entertaining offers of marriage?"
"You think it'll be so easy?" she called back over her shoulder. "No way. There will be tasks. Like in a fairy tale."
"Sounds dangerous."
"Very, so think twice."
"No need," he said. "You're worth it."
From Days of Blood & Starlight
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.
From Daughter of Smoke & Bone
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
But Hazael only said, "I brought you a present."
Liraz took the flower, looked at it, and then a Hazael, expressionless. And then she ate it. She chewed the flower and swallowed it.
"Hmm," said Hazael. "Not the usual response."
"Oh, do you give flowers often?"
"Yes," he said. He probably did. Hazael had a way of enjoying life in spite of the many restrictions they lived under, being soldiers, and worse, being Misbegotten. "I hope it wasn't poisonous," he said lightly.
Liraz just shrugged. "There are worse ways to die.
From Days of Blood & Starlight
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Topic: Death