💬 Quotes
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"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden."
— Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Illustratedby Frances Hodgson Burnett
"Much has been said and written about the effect of thought upon the body. It is the most vital power in the world."
— Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Illustratedby Frances Hodgson Burnett
"Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden—in all the places."
— Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Illustratedby Frances Hodgson Burnett
"Is the spring coming? he said. What is it like? ... It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine."
— Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Illustratedby Frances Hodgson Burnett
"One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison."
— Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Illustratedby Frances Hodgson Burnett
"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground."
— A Game of Thronesby George R. R. Martin
"Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you."
— A Game of Thronesby George R. R. Martin
"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."
— The Princess Brideby William Goldman
"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."
— The Princess Brideby William Goldman
"My father worked for the king's evil prince. He was a swordmaker. He was killed by a man with six fingers."
— The Princess Brideby William Goldman
"I’ve been in the revenge business so long, now that it’s over, I don’t know what to do with the rest of my life."
— The Princess Brideby William Goldman
"There’s a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours."
— The Princess Brideby William Goldman
"I am the sum of all my parts, and they are all, all of them, screaming for attention."
— A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Geniusby J. K. Rowling
"I want to be a saint. No, I want to be a legend. No, I want to be a person who is actually useful."
— A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Geniusby J. K. Rowling