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A story begins with this nebulous feeling that’s hard to get a hold of and you’re testing your feelings and assumptions, testing what you believe. They end up turning into keepsakes and mementos—like amber in which a memory gets trapped.


Michael Chabon

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SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
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KELLY JONES Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping?'
'You're bitching about ...
LETA BLAKE She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
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JEFFREY ARCHER By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about...
JIM MORRISON I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"

There was nothing but uncompromising w...
SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you.

His first words to me— not a lie at a...
SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
"It's not the end of the world if you do that every n...
SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ...
SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
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ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
SARAH J. MAAS That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
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CRAIG GROESCHEL There'll be a whole lot of things you ain't gonna want to do, but you'll have to do in this life jus...
MILDRED D. TAYLOR Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha...
JEFFREY R. ANDERSON How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Hope is the believe that the promised will be fulfilled.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Believe in your abilities.Your negative thoughts about yourself send a signal throughout the world t...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
BRANDON SANDERSON We feel like we've got one of the most comprehensive drug testing policies in the state of Texas ......
GREG WRIGHT Your actions are living affirmations of what you say you believe and feel. ‘Affirmative action’ ...
DEREK RYDALL Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime...
STEPHEN FRY Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To...
SARAH J. MAAS Males are horrible creatures, aren’t they?
SARAH J. MAAS When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.
SARAH J. MAAS Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.
SARAH J. MAAS Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN But I forgot to tell him,” I said quietly, opening the door, “that the villain is usually the pe...
SARAH J. MAAS That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything...
KURT VONNEGUT That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything...
KURT VONNEGUT That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything...
KURT VONNEGUT If they had a month [notice before testing] and were taking short-acting [steroids], they may or may...
GARY WADLER If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person an...
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JOEY HARRINGTON When you are working testing weaponry of destruction of life, you should not associate it with 'divi...
CARRIE DANN You don’t need to drink to get over your feelings. Deal with your feelings that’s how you get ov...
HOLLY HOOD You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN why do people rise and fall.. How and when they will get the attentions and why politicians fall whe...
SHARIF MOHAMED Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely...
DEBORAH KERR They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p...
DEBORAH KERR By using the systems we are developing in the habitat, we are both testing our ideas and validating ...
BILL CLANCEY The Lean Startup is a process for turning ideas into commercial ventures. Its premise is that startu...
STEVE BLANK You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you....
RICHARD SIKEN If your only motive is to be loved, to ingratiate yourself with the crowd, you're bound to fall into...
PAUL AUSTER You say, 'We want to run a test at the end of 1998—will you be ready?' That shakes out a lot. If th...
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AURIN SQUIRE Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually u...
ALICE MUNRO Wait, that’s your idea? That’s your expert advice? You’re going to tell these novelists to jus...
KAREN RUSSELL Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow.
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CLAES FORNELL If you think your world isn’t poetic enough, or exciting enough to tell a story about, that’s no...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA When you test a newborn, you're only testing for the mother's antibodies. This makes a mockery of th...
ANN FISHER Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a...
MARK LAWRENCE There are different kinds of darkness,” Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. “There is the darkness t...
SARAH J. MAAS Come on, Feyre. We don’t bite. Unless you ask us to.
SARAH J. MAAS My mate. Death incarnate. Night triumphant.
SARAH J. MAAS If you were going to die, I was going to die with you. I couldn’t stop thinking it over and over a...
SARAH J. MAAS We need hope, or else we cannot endure.
SARAH J. MAAS You mistake patience for forbearance.
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HILARY MANTEL A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.
MITCH ALBOM You can get a lot of design testing of your missile program, and you can do a lot of - there's o...
MIKE ROGERS A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.
RAQUEL CEPEDA I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelle...
PETER CAMERON Why is it, when your looking for that someone, you find no one, but, once you find it, a lot more ch...
TIM MCGRAW Why is it, when your looking for that someone, you find no one, but, once you find it, a lot more ch...
OSCAR WILDE It's a love story, ... I [get this girl to tutor me] and end up falling in love with her.
AARON CARTER Models like this are a wonderful tool for experimental drug testing.
ANDRE LEVCHENKO I get really excited about specific therapies, personalized therapies. Like, let's say, taking a...
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MICHAEL POLLAN A boundary is really something artificial we made up. The ecosystem and landscape continue.
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MICHAEL HAYDEN For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should ha...
MICHAEL KORDA In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the trut...
MICHAEL MUSTO Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
MICHAEL WICKETT I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- a...
MICHAEL SPECTER You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult ...
MICHAEL MORPURGO I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.
MICHAEL LEUNIG The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide th...
MICHAEL KORDA Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the split...
MICHAEL MEADE Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.
MICHAEL WINTER The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while q...
MICHAEL KORDA We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.
MICHAEL JORDAN The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea...
MICHAEL JORDAN When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical abili...
MICHAEL JORDAN You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of ba...
MICHAEL GREGER As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt:...
MICHAEL GREGER In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, inco...
MICHAEL SHERMER Some travelers collect souvenirs, postcards, or bumper stickers; I bring home a pencil from the vari...
MICHAEL DIRDA Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical ...
MICHAEL BEHE My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-st...
MICHAEL KEATON In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the governm...
MICHAEL MCCAUL I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough f...
MICHAEL KORDA What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not...
MICHAEL VICK That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I...
MICHAEL VICK Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an ho...
MICHAEL ENDE In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It ...
MICHAEL KORDA Up to a thousand milligrams of caffeine is considered safe for most people, which translates into ab...
MICHAEL GREGER T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted ...
MICHAEL KORDA I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it'...
MICHAEL MOORE I first went to Cambodia in 2002, primarily, as it turned out, to change diapers. My wife had work i...
MICHAEL PATERNITI Going to Cambodia to cover the genocide trials, I did read a lot about the Khmer Rouge; I read a lot...
MICHAEL PATERNITI I loved Cambodia; watching the sun rise at Angkor Wat was really beautiful.
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