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Quotes by Novelist
"Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!"
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"To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power."
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"In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them."
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"Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so."
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"You had better not open that door."
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"He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been easier to work out what goodness was. This business of worship, of the abnegation of self in the face of the Almighty, was a distraction, a false trail. Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow, clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path."
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"Sienna, meet Zacharel. He's a warrior angel for the One, True Deity. Zacharel, meet Sienna. She's mine."
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"When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales."
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"Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity."
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"When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader."
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"There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future."
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"We men are the slaves of prejudice,' he had once said to her. 'But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about."
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"If the statue engulfs people in fire, we should send Leo.' 'I love you too, man.' 'You know what I mean. You're immune. Or, heck, give me some of those nice water grenades and I'll go. Ares and I have tangled before."
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"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup."
Life,
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"Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged."
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"When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar."
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"Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish."
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"In the story of the prince and the frog, there's always a frog. This story ... it has no frog."
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"The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean."
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"It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council."
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"That night two lovers whispering under the lead canopy of the church were killed by their own passion. Their effusion of words, unable to escape through the Saturnian discipline of lead, so filled the spaces of the loft that the air was all driven away. The lovers suffocated, but when the sacristan opened the tiny door the words tumbled him over in their desire to be free, and were seen flying across the city in the shape of doves."
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"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones."
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"The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did."
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"Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas."
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"Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip."No, the divorce was great, I said. "It was the marriage that sucked."
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"She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts."
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"Thy silence, then that voices thee."
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"I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost."
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"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."
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"Then there were the shabti, magical figurines that were supposed to come to life when summoned. A few months ago, I'd fallen for a girl named Zia Rashid, who'd turned out to be a shabti. Falling in love for the first time had been hard enough. But when the girl you like turns out to be ceramic and cracks to pieces before your eyes-well, it gives "breaking your heart a new meaning."
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"Sure, Nico had mixed emotions about the camp. He'd felt rejected there, out of place, unwanted and unloved - but now that it was on the verge of destruction, he realized how much it meant to him. This was the last place Bianca and he had shared as a home " the only place they'd ever felt safe, even if only temporarily."
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"Khione's eyes flared pure white. For once, she seemed at a loss for words. She stormed back up the stairs-literally. Halfway up, she turned into a blizzard and disappeared."
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