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quotes that i like :)
“Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!”
Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. “But no living man am I!”
December 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
At the end of the day, once you’re down there’s only one way to go—up!
December 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
1. Don’t talk about Kinko’s.
2. Don’t print a printer.
3. Don’t print a printer.
December 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
‘This is what made a book great,’ she thought, ‘that you could read it over and over and never get tired of it.’
December 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important.”
December 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Fero is a part of what we have made, whether he likes it or not. I will not let him turn away.
December 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
“And part of the reason I feel I did not thrive was I allowed myself to be parted from you.”
December 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I know now. All of you taught it to me, so I know it must be true. Now, just like then, my hitters are there. And they’re waiting for the best set I can give them!
December 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“That can only mean one thing. The rage inside me remains as strong as ever. I suppose I should be happy.”
December 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The Divine Principality offers you progress, but imperial futures are only ever stolen presents. I offer you more. I offer you actualization.
December 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
He smiled. Of course. It was that exquisite sensation – the blending in, the folding-out – that’s exactly how her voice had felt to him.
Actually, the Turquoise Rain had been familiar the moment he felt it, and now he knew why.
It was just like the touch of Madeleine’s hand.
December 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
“I need to find something to fight for other than revenge.”
December 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
My lord Baru Cormorant will very soon fight a great war. In this war the sides will be: her mind and her heart.
December 28, 2025 at 6:13 AM
“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
December 28, 2025 at 5:11 AM
But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold out heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.
December 28, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I wanted to go even further with this team.
December 28, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I cry at the start of every movie
I guess ‘cause I wish I was making things too
December 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
CONCEPTUALIZATION – Why wouldn’t they be? Are the lungs not the place where you hold the breath of your soul?
December 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
She’d laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.
December 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
“Do you like falling asleep or waking up better?”
“Oh, definitely falling asleep. Um... I – I really just – I love that feeling of drifting off, I like the way that your mind can wander at those last moments? Waking up is just like, a reminder that you have stuff to do.”
December 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“I’m not the one you want to shoot.”
“If you’re Anaander Mianaai,” I said, “then I want to shoot you.”
December 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
“I picked a good name,” Barhu croaked. “It invites pain, and survives it.”
December 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Or perhaps it's in the sight of the droplets seen from the spire
Falling clean through the chairs and tables
And diners and fruit sellers
Shrugging wet hair out of bright eyes
And looking up at the storm over Tristero
December 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
“Listen, I am The Ranger, okay? It’s gonna be fine.”
December 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
“I am a scientist who is meant to be researching a god, but instead I am fighting a war, which is a worse job.”
December 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM