Quotes from Shift

“I am weird, and you know what? That's OK. So are most interesting people.”
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“I believe in grey...Some things aren't straightforward. Not everything is true or false, real or imaginary, black or white. It's not that simple.”
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“Imitation is the highest from of flattery. Until it isn't.”
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“One more piece of sky in the jigsaw puzzle of our school.”
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“... it looked at me as it passed, smiling in that crazy-happy way that dogs do. And I started laughing. I mean, how can you not laugh at a dog running on the beach? But I was also kind of crying, too. Laughing and crying simultaneously hurts. It hurts and it's confusing.”
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“As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel.”
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“The ocean is not to be trusted. It's dark and cold with a treacherous current that pulls you whichever way it wants. It can drown you or it refuse to drown you.”
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“She was the whisper of a shadow.”
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“Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Until it isn't.”
― quote from Shift

Popular quotes

“I can pick this... My governess used to shut me in the airing cupboard when I wouldn't do my sums. But I was resourceful! - Ariadne”
― Sophie Cleverly, quote from The Lost Twin

“Then Lu Wing entered, no longer in chauffeur’s uniform but wearing a high-buttoned, deep blue silk tunic, an entourage of smooth, modern men of south China at his heels, ready, I heard him say, to do any further work required of them. The conversation turned to a more distant moment when his father died and he would claim the crown of the Wing emirates, to rule over a subcontinent and its colonies again. Sending his men off, he said, upon their errands and to visit their many relatives in Limehouse, Lu Wing leaned against the bar, as relaxed as he had probably been during his student days at Oxford.”
― Michael Moorcock, quote from The Whispering Swarm

“Yes, exactly. I heard he’s a sort of savage — lives in a hut on the school grounds and every now and then he gets drunk, tries to do magic, and ends up setting fire to his bed.” “I think he’s brilliant,” said Harry coldly.”
― J.K. Rowling, quote from Harry Potter: The Complete Series

“Like all tales, it takes on the attributes that make it most appealing to those who tell it.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from The World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones

“Expectations are dangerous things. They've probably killed more people than any creature or cryptid you care to name.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok

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