“You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Tag: quotes
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Quotation Monday #114: People we loved
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Quotation Monday #113: Books
“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
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Quotation Monday #112: Most wishes to do
“As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia
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Quotation Monday #111: Gobblefunk
“Don’t gobblefunk around with words.”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG
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Quotation Monday #110: Writing
“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
― Meg Cabot
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Quotation Monday #109: Can vs. should
“Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Quotation Monday #108: Go after what you want
“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”
― Nora Roberts
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Quotation Monday #107: Laughing
“I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.”
― Shannon Hale
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Quotation Monday #106
“I don’t suffer from my insanity — I enjoy every minute of it.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dance with the Devil