Quote from Robin Jones Gunn, Gardenias for Breakfast
It’s funny whom we end up choosing to love and who ends up choosing to love us. It’s rarely the people we think it should be.
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Quote from Brent Weeks
The truth is, everyone likes to look down on someone. If your favorites are all avant-garde writers who throw in Sanskrit and German, you can look down on everyone. If your favorites are all Oprah Book Club books, you can at least look down on mystery readers. Mystery readers have sci-fi readers. Sci-fi can look down on fantasy. And yes, fantasy readers have their own snobbishness. Iāll bet this, though: in a hundred years, people will be writing a lot more dissertations on Harry Potter than on John Updike. Look, Charles Dickens wrote popular fiction. Shakespeare wrote popular fictionāuntil he wrote his sonnets, desperate to show the literati of his day that he was real artist. Edgar Allan Poe tied himself in knots because no one realized he was a genius. The core of the problem is how we want to define āliteratureā. The Latin root simply means ālettersā. Those letters are either deliveredāthey connect with an audienceāor they donāt. For some, that audience is a few thousand college professors and some critics. For others, its twenty million women desperate for romance in their lives. Those connections happen because the books successfully communicate something real about the human experience. Sure, there are trashy books that do really well, but thatās because there are trashy facets of humanity. What people value in their booksāand thus what they count as literatureāreally tells you more about them than it does about the book.
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Quote from Mira Grant, Feed
Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don’t want to take the time to look away.
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Quote from Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess: The Mother of Modern Witchcraft
Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals.Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.
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Quote from Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can’t see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.
Quote from Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise
The air was swollen with music, shouting, and something I could not quite place- a feeling of happiness, but happiness with an edge, a sense of joy that was all the more meaningful because it was so fleeting.
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Quote from Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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Quote from Piers Paul Read, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
There was one question, however, which Inciarte had asked him and he could not answer. Why was it that he had lived while others had died? What purpose had God in making this selection? What sense could be made out of it? āNone,ā replied Father AndrĆ©s. āThere are times when the will of God cannot be understood by our human intelligence. There are things which in all humility we must accept as a mystery.
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Quote from Nandhiji, Mastery of Consciousness: Awaken the Inner Prophet: Liberate Yourself with Yogic Wisdom.
To fall in love for any reason does cause fires of emotion. When we are in love, we ride on a positive energy as compared to not being in love. When we are love, we transcend conditional love to that of unconditional and we are now flowering in consciousness. Love is a very important element of consciousness as it becomes purer with Source union even as our consciousness is expanded further. Consciousness is love that is light.