Until a few days ago, humans had been little more than legend to him, and now here he was in their world. It was like stepping into the pages of a book -- a book alive with color and fragrance, filth and chaos -- and the blue-haired girl moved through it all like a fairy through a story, the light treating her differently than it did others, the air seemed to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place was a story about her.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES 'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fair... NANCY WERLIN While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story. JEFFREY ARCHER You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER She saw how he was staring at it, the bright red hue beneath her bonnet. She could not bear to see t... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disar... KATE MORTON He had what he called just a small ration of tools: A painted book. A handful of pencils.<... MARKUS ZUSAK When I met a truly beautiful girl, I would tell her that if she spent the night with me, I would wri... ROMAN PAYNE ...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence a... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER People are going to see you talking to nobody and think you're weird." This amused him. I... MAGGIE STIEFVATER How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized h... REBECCA SOLNIT Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE exhilaration fizzed through Clarke’s body. Before she realised what she was doing, she had thrown ... KASS MORGAN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS It was the kind of story everybody likes, about a tough girl who becomes a truer version of herself ... CHRIS KRAUS This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the ... CARSON MCCULLERS She closed her eyes and held all her dreams between her fingers like a dandelion and just blew it. S... AKSHAY VASU You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI Dancing. Come on. You can do it. It's a lot like navigating through a laser grid. It requires rhythm... ALLY CARTER Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about h... JEANNE DUPRAU Mass is not proportional to volume. A girl as small as a violet. A girl who moves like a flower peta... KIM IN-YOOK, “THE PHYSICS OF LOVE” If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER What exactly is it you'd like to know? [the book store manager asked]. He had an odd expression, lik... JENNIFER MCMAHON Like many faeries she knew, he was sculpture-perfect, but instead of being wrought of shadows like t... MELISSA MARR You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand,... AARON CARTER Kiss me again,” he challenged, only half joking. It was so weird to hear him say that, to hea... KIMBERLY DERTING It was a short book, so the aim was to shave rather than lose en masse. The story came mainly throug... ANDREW SIMPSON If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA I remember a story of a girl in Paradise who ate an apple once. Some wise Sapient gave it to her. Be... CATHERINE FISHER Grasping the staff, Donia pressed her mouth to Beira’s still body and inhaled. The rest of the Win... MELISSA MARR When I was small my mother tried to teach me the colors. "Blue," she said, pointing to the sky. And ... ALLY CONDIE No, it had never been like this for him before, with anyone. Of all the women he’d known, she was ... J.D. ROBB She looked exactly like an angel. I know my jaw dropped a little, and I just stood there looking at ... NICHOLAS SPARKS What was it like?” Manon asked quietly. “To love.” For love was what it had been—what Asteri... SARAH J. MAAS I believe in you, my darling. I believe in you." He closed his eyes. And when he opened th... ELIZABETH HOYT He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any ... DONALD MILLER No longer did she look like a shy little maid who was trained to censor her thought before it reache... KIEN NGUYEN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. This was her body. She had learned to take pleasure in it, even if no man had ever done the same. It... TESSA DARE Books had always been a comfort to her. More than comfort. There were times when reading came close ... SARAH MORGAN This did not in any way alter her intention of accomplishing her mission; on the contrary; it seemed... JANE BOWLES The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure... CORNELIA FUNKE A little girl was sitting on her grandfather's lap as he read her a bedtime story. From time to time... UNKNOWN I found myself hating him, wanting to hurt him, to drive him away from the red-haired girl who was s... JULIE KAGAWA The light show when she picked up the statue was insane. Blue cracks spread from her hand, up her ar... ERICA CAMERON I started reading this book about two months ago, because we meet once a week so it takes a while to... GENA PROCHASKA Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expr... MICHAEL ONDAATJE This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue libr... LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time and... J.K. ROWLING The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS CORALINE'S STORY THERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND D... NEIL GAIMAN I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. 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 Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES Her life was her book. She didn’t get to choose the ending, but the way she filled the pages makes... ESTHER EARL I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she ... STEPHEN COLBERT Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he... NICHOLAS SPARKS The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but... JAMES ROBERTSON It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--m... TESSA DARE Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,... DANIELLE STEEL By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER I don't talk about it. But when I was a little girl, my father was abusive when he drank and seemed ... ELIZABETH TAYLOR Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I wish she had been alive to see it. When I was a little girl, I used to lock myself in my room and ... ELIDA REYNA The person that gives you a good book to read is more valuable than the one that gives you money,bec... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Being with her always felt like gazing the stars and into the infinity, reading a book which never e... AKSHAY VASU Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Loosers want it but only through the easy way. If action taking were like reading a story book, loos... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Ma was heavy, but not fat; thick with child-bearing and work. She wore a loose Mother Hubbard of gra... JOHN STEINBECK When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. SARA ZARR His anger was still there, and he used it to break into her. He liked the way her eyes widened in al... RUPERT THOMSON
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LAINI TAYLOR She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She ... LAINI TAYLOR Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. ... LAINI TAYLOR It was brave," countered Issa. "It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful. LAINI TAYLOR How much does your life have to suck to want the Apocalypse? LAINI TAYLOR As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better." "Or worse," said Lira... LAINI TAYLOR Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless. LAINI TAYLOR All right," sighed Madrigal. "To the baths, then. To make ourselves shiningly clean." Like veg... LAINI TAYLOR The streets of Prague were a fantasia scarcely touched by the twenty-first century—or the twentiet... LAINI TAYLOR The door opened. She looked in the mirror and suppressed a curse. Slipping in behind some tourists, ... LAINI TAYLOR Lo que más deseo es estar a tu lado y ayudarte. Y, si nos hace falta una eternidad, mucho mejor, po... LAINI TAYLOR Existe el pasado, y también el futuro. El presente no es más que el único segundo que divide la u... LAINI TAYLOR El Amor es un Elemento. --- Akiva LAINI TAYLOR War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can inve... LAINI TAYLOR I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party... ROD TAYLOR I think every fight is a tough fight, but I'm not settling for a bronze medal. KATIE TAYLOR Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're h... TAYLOR SWIFT Never judge a stranger by his clothes. ZACHARY TAYLOR When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someo... TAYLOR SWIFT In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care ... ZACHARY TAYLOR I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of D... ZACHARY TAYLOR In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain... ZACHARY TAYLOR As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and po... ZACHARY TAYLOR Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which mon... ZACHARY TAYLOR I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the polit... ZACHARY TAYLOR The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Repu... ZACHARY TAYLOR The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It ha... ZACHARY TAYLOR I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me. ZACHARY TAYLOR I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me. ZACHARY TAYLOR I have never yet exercised the privilege of voting, but had I been called upon at the last president... ZACHARY TAYLOR My wife was as much of a soldier as I was. ZACHARY TAYLOR It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. ZACHARY TAYLOR In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes. ZACHARY TAYLOR The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is po... ZACHARY TAYLOR I hope some compromise will be entered into between the two parties, slavery & antislavery, whic... ZACHARY TAYLOR Soldiers, I intend to stay here, not only as long as a man remains, but as long as a piece of a man ... ZACHARY TAYLOR As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so wi... ZACHARY TAYLOR I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed ... TAYLOR WILSON Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor,... TAYLOR WILSON I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the Presiden... TAYLOR WILSON I have too many ideas for a lifetime. TAYLOR WILSON There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents. TAYLOR WILSON When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what... TAYLOR WILSON I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials... TAYLOR WILSON If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afrai... TAYLOR WILSON These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, an... TAYLOR WILSON I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years... TAYLOR WILSON When I hold something that's radioactive, it's kind of an indescribable feeling. It's ki... TAYLOR WILSON As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but ... TAYLOR WILSON My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. I... TAYLOR WILSON I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, bec... TAYLOR WILSON I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent int... TAYLOR WILSON