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Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a little applied over all your scruples is an absolute necessity! It is to the soul what a good sun-block is to the skin during the heat of summer.

Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners.

There may be some truth in that idea houses absorb the emotions that are spent in them

It was funny stuff, sanity. When it was taken away, you didn't know it. You didn't feel its departure. You only really knew it when it was restored, like some rare wild bird which lived and sang within you not by decree but by choice.

Maybe that was strange. Maybe it was sad. Maybe it was what literary types called irony.

The mad King, the bad King, the sad King. Ring-a-ding-ding, all hail the King!

What great wrong did you ever do that you should inspire such terrible loyalty in so many?

Strip away the metaphors, Jeannie had said, and you are left with the inexplicable. The supernatural. Only that's not possible. The supernatural may exist in books and movies, but not in the real world.

They discuss the characters as though they were living people, and ask frequently, 'What happened to so-and-so?'... as if I got letters from them every now and again.

literature instead of cleanliness was next to godliness.

I have a transgressive spirit, and Pop is transgression's best friend.

You will not live the life of royalty, if you don't understand the meaning of loyalty.

There are few things more discomfiting than a spontaneous outburst of genuine decency from someone you're determined to dislike for no good reason.

I guess it's funny how life turns out?" she tried. "Not last I checked, " Errol said with a snort.

Never underestimate the power of good but never ignore evil lurking in the hearts of men.Rose of Life

Kristin Cashore, Fire

Good-hearted laughter is a tribute to the happy God, who created laughter and delights to enter into it with us.

He was sorry for himself as well, for he was doomed to find life and identity in death letters.

In the books, I meet characters which I really like and I think that they are like me... but so far I haven't met them in real life!

Because choices need time, the fulness of time, time being the horizontal axis of morality - you make a decision and then you wait and see, wait and see.

And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

Pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts.

I sometimes feel that I'm impersonating the dark unconscious of the whole human race. I know this sounds sick, but I love it.