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There are many ties that bind, and as many walls that divide. Music and madness. Love and unending time. Race and war. Strum weaves together each element into a larger human tapestry of light and shadow, where a combination of fate and decision can define a family's legacy.


Nancy Young

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KELLY JONES You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
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.
APURVA GAGLANI 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 Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS 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.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ...
PATRICK W. CARR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
SARAH J. MAAS History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange...
DAVID DUCHOVNY The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in...
AND CITY Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte...
AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio...
AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ...
AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent,
JILL AND I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime...
STEPHEN FRY 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 I felt a numb shock as I drove home anxious to get my chocolate flowers and wondering how my mother ...
JORI NUNES That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN 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.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I fel...
SARAH J. MAAS I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.
MITCH ALBOM She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There's eternal opposition between yin and yang.
No third party at all, but treason occurs som...
TOBA BETA 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.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She was remembering His gaze, those deep pools of blue, crystalline in nature, peering deep into her...
FRANK L. DESILVA The dance between darkness and light will always remain— the stars and the moon will always need t...
C. JOYBELL C. blue-gold sky, fresh cloud,
emerald-black mountain, trees
on rocky ledges,

o...
BARBARA BLATNER But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most im...
C.G. JUNG Time is life.
Time for birth, time for death.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA 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 Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping?'
'You're bitching about ...
LETA BLAKE 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 If I've learned anything in my life, it's that there is no darkness so absolute that it cannot be di...
KERRIGAN BYRNE We can go mad whenever we like. We can leave our minds behind and play in the garden at night. The g...
J.J. VLADIMIR oh.
she heard it
too-no waters
coursing, canyon
empty, sun
soundless- ...
BARBARA BLATNER I could simply
kill you now,
get it over with,
who would
know the difference...
BARBARA BLATNER ...gripping the
rim of the sink
you claw your
way to stand
and cling there, ...
BARBARA BLATNER They say that a part of you dies when a special Loved One passes away...I disagree...I say a part of...
DANIEL YANEZ I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?"
"You could try rubbing ...
SARAH J. MAAS Lieutenant Chatrand: I don’t understand this omnipotent-benevolent thing.
Camerlengo Carlo Ve...
DAN BROWN If i thought this would never happen again I would die.
But this is wrong, nobody dies from lac...
MARGARET ATWOOD When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Our existence comes with Death. And it comes with suffering, death alone is not enough and pleasure ...
IRA N. BARIN Light and dark ain't supposed to mix. They're like broccoli and chocolate - just nasty when you put ...
H.M. WARD I had become the music and the fire and the night, and there was nothing that could slow me down.
SARAH J. MAAS I see all of you, Rhys. And there is not one part that I do not love with everything I am.
SARAH J. MAAS Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES I needed not to be dead when I agreed.”
“You needed not to be alone.
SARAH J. MAAS She didn’t know what to do with it, that rage. It still burned and hunted her, still made her want...
SARAH J. MAAS In the end, every man's life is but a tale told to him that's lived it, and to him alone.
TIM WILLOCKS Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?'

I still think that's the bravest thing I'...
CHINA MIéVILLE A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the oth...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA I can't change my colour and certainly won't change my religion and definitely won't sell my soul fo...
DIPU AHAD Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and...
NORA ROBERTS Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the lov...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL It's the beauty of light, don't you see, Sam? It reveals, but it also distracts and blinds. It's eve...
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NANCY LUBLIN Young people are this awesome, creative, hopeful untapped resource out there.
NANCY LUBLIN I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play...
NANCY LUBLIN Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birken...
NANCY LUBLIN When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. ...
NANCY LUBLIN Social change isn't something you should do just to help pad a resume. Follow your passion.
NANCY LUBLIN I loved junior golf.
NANCY LOPEZ If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my na...
NANCY LOPEZ Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
NANCY LOPEZ I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball.
NANCY LOPEZ I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.
NANCY LOPEZ My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.
NANCY LOPEZ The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
NANCY LOPEZ Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to sh...
NANCY LOPEZ Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But i...
NANCY LOPEZ If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep t...
NANCY KRESS As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
NANCY KRESS Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectua...
NANCY KRESS The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hund...
NANCY KRESS Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two peo...
NANCY KRESS Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,'...
NANCY KRESS All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with n...
NANCY KRESS The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characte...
NANCY KRESS You have considerable choice in how you end your fiction. For all stories, the basic rule is the sam...
NANCY KRESS Pace, like everything else in writing, involves a trade-off. If you're not offering the reader a...
NANCY KRESS Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn ...
NANCY KRESS There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, s...
NANCY KRESS The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these p...
NANCY KRESS The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture t...
NANCY KRESS