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I think that's just a story.""But, Jace," she said. "All stories are true.

It's entirely possible that there are memories you have buried or repressed, memories formed when yo...

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To love is to destroy and to be loved is to be the one destroyed

Simon to die. Jace to live. Jonathon to retune. And you Valentine's daughter, to be the catalist of ...

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Aren't we forever?

Beauty is harsh.

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Cassandra ClareClockwork Prince

Your pretense does not fool me, gnome. My eye will be upon you.

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pr...

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He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and ye...

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Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising,...

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The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one...

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The real difference is that with fantasy—and by that I mean fantasy which can simultaneously tap int...

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There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories ...

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The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true....

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Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that y...

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Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're...

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I know, I know," Moore said. "Mad beliefs like that, eh? Must be some metaphor, right? Must mean som...

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If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No Y...

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Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!

Morning and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:'Come buy our orchard fruits,Come buy, come buy

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try an...

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I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or un...

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Christopher HitchensThe Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

Let'sss just kill him," said the shorter Ra'zac. "He has caused us much grief." The taller one ran h...

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I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not what we want but what...

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Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us.

Come, kiss me sweet, and then let us return to bed, for I am tired, and I would sleep.

Shall we dance,friend of my heart?"We shall, little one.

I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't ...

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Ah, so that must have been her mystery: she had discovered a trail into the forest. Surely that was ...

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That's half of your trouble," muttered the crocodile. "You believe everything's true.""That's becaus...

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I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important...

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There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these a...

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Here is a list of terrible things,The jaws of sharks, a vultures wingsThe rabid bite of the dogs of ...

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When we are no longer children we are already dead

Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, d...

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Daphne du MaurierEchoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories

Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: tha...

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While I have the floor, here's a question that's been bothering me for some time. Why do so few writ...

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While I have the floor, here's a question that's been bothering me for some time. Why do so few writ...

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The imagination simplifies our endless desires and causes us to fantasize that they can be fulfilled...

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If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

What is your name?"Why?"So I can mark your grave...

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David GemmellWolf in Shadow

A book can’t be a half-fantasy any more than a woman can be half pregnant

...Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed. Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, tho...

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When I was small, I never wanted to step in puddles. Not because of any fear of drowned worms or wet...

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Jamal stared at the dog in his arms. "Why I am I holding a dog full of angels?

Nothing is safe from you. If I were to court a girl who lived on an iceberg in the middle of the oce...

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Diana Wynne JonesHowl's Moving Castle

I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.

I only want to catch you,” Michael explained. “I won’t hurt you.” “No! No!” the star crackled desper...

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Diana Wynne JonesHowl's Moving Castle

He held out his hand to Sophie, just like Mrs. Pentstemmon, but a little less royally. Sophie levere...

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...and said grace in Welsh. It was all rolling, thundering language.

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Diana Wynne JonesThe Merlin Conspiracy

Horses are of a breed unique to Fantasyland. They are capable of galloping full-tilt all day without...

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Diana Wynne JonesThe Tough Guide to Fantasyland

Slender Youth. A tour companion who may be either a lost prince or a girl/princess in disguise. In t...

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Diana Wynne JonesThe Tough Guide to Fantasyland

Female Mercenary. This will be a companion on your Tour. She is usually tall, thin and wiry, silent,...

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Diana Wynne JonesThe Tough Guide to Fantasyland

Small Man can be a very funny or a very tiresome Tour Companion, depending on how this kind of thing...

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Diana Wynne JonesThe Tough Guide to Fantasyland

Before long, everyone was giving him answers, and feeling a little superior, because it was really r...

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OK, so the guy is cool, but... I mean own up, this is barking time, this is major lunch, this is sto...

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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a wa...

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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a wa...

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Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of ...

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There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they mus...

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E. T. A. HoffmannDie Serapions Brüder: Gesammelte Erzählungen Und Märchen In Vier Bänden

It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for fa...

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I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze o...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

But it is cute. It's such a boy thing to do.Drop dead.Aw, you say the most romantic things.

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Eliezer YudkowskyHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Without thinking about it at all, Harry stepped in front of Hermione.There was an intake of breath f...

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Eliezer YudkowskyHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

And then Harry Potter had launched in to a speech that was inspiring, yet vague. A speech to the eff...

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Eliezer YudkowskyHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Tea? At the beach? No time for luxuries, Holly. There is important work to be done.” He winked at Bu...

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There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard ...

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Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You co...

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Fafhrd stopped, again wiped right hand on robe, and held it out. "Name's Fafhrd. Ef ay ef aitch ar d...

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Also, in the dismal Cold Waste, any man treasures illusions, though knowing them almost certainly to...

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At that instant the hag's noisy breathing stopped and with it all other sound. Her eyes opened, show...

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Fritz LeiberSwords Against Wizardry

Blood trickled down his chin as he was hauled up onto his knees, the golden rope securing his arms b...

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I’m not going,” he said. He held up the Third key like a weapon. Sensing his mood, it grew longer an...

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But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin...

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Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.

As for you, Private, if you mention a word of this to anyone, I'll feed you to the cat thing here. U...

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Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But ...

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The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futu...

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I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

Trust the Oak,” said she; “trust the Oak, and the Elm, and the great Beech. Take care of the Birch, ...

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He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless,because he wanted to go to bed with her an...

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Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of...

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Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as...

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They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.

For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, ...

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They were in a long line, an endless line, and as they burst from the wood there was an instant, the...

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Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond.

Look at me!" he would shout as he ran laughing through the halls of Storm's End. "Look at me, I'm a ...

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A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands

She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream....

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...Prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the p...

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Most of my kin are bastards," [Tyrion] said with a wry smile, "but you're the first I've had to frie...

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The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to f...

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It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We a...

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Up and down," Meera would sigh sometimes as they walked, "then down and up. Then up and down again. ...

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Something warned me that what I might see would haunt me forever.