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"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

"To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

"Whatever our destiny is or may be, we have made it ourselves, and we do not complain of it."

"Tis the moment where a decision is set to alter the course of her destiny. She walks toward the light where he patiently awaits her arrival."
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"What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose."

"Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, that she could command these immortal presences. And she rejoiced in her blood and flesh, in the rough pine bark she felt next to her skin, in the beat of her heart and the life of all her senses, and in the hunger she was feeling now, and in the presence of her sweet-voiced bluethroat dA mon, and in the earth below her and the lives of every creature, plant and animal both; and she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her."

"I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!"

"When you're young you do think that things last forever unfortunately they don't Lyra."

"There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them."
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