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                                    “Refusing to talk about something wouldn’t make it go away. If it was there, it was there, and no amount of verbal acrobatics could make it go away.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
                                
                                
                                    “...most people need to believe in something. There are a few who don't, but they're a bit unusual.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
                                
                                
                                    “You’d think that the people who worshiped the real true God would have better sense.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
                                
                                
                                    “Degrur, that doesn’t make any sense at all.” “I just woke up,”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
                                
                                
                                    “Just because I love her, it doesn't mean that I love you less.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
                                
                                
 
                                
                                
                                    “Some stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Other stories never end, maybe because they’re alive.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
                                
                                
                                    “doesn’t make any sense,” he said. It was all he could do, however, to keep from throwing the dreadful sheet into”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
                                
                                
                                    “Bheid and Leitha, but he didn’t say anything.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
                                
                                
                                    “You’d think that the people who worshiped the real true God would have better sense.' ~Althalus”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
                                
                                
                                “I houseclean my books every spring and throw out those I'm never going to read again like I throw out clothes I'm never going to wear again.”
                                
                                
                                    ― Helene Hanff, quote from 84, Charing Cross Road
                                
                            
                                “I read once about a kind of fungus that grows in trees. The fungus begins to encroach on the systems that carry water and nutrients up from the roots to the branches. It disables them one by one―it crowds them out. Soon, the fungus―and only the fungus―is carrying the water, and the chemicals, and everything else the tree needs to survive. At the same time it is decaying the tree slowly from within, turning it minute by minute to rot.
That is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.
It is hard and deep and angular, a system of blockades. It is everything and total.”
                                
                                
                                    ― Lauren Oliver, quote from Pandemonium
                                
                            
                                “This is the truth: we all desire to conquer the comely one, because it affirms our own worth. Speaking for the men of the world, we want to own the beauty of the woman we're fucking. We want to grasp that beauty, tightly in our greedy little fingers, to well and truly possess it, to make it ours. We want to do this as the woman shines her way through an orgasm. That's perfection. And while I can't speak for women, I imagine that they-whether they admit it or not-want the same thing: to possess the man, to own his rough handsomeness, if only for a few seconds.”
                                
                                
                                    ― Andrew Davidson, quote from The Gargoyle
                                
                            
                                “People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.”
                                
                                
                                    ― Stephen R. Covey, quote from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
                                
                            
                                “You make pictures, not take them?
Yes. At least that's how I think of it. That's the difference between Sunday snapshooters and someone who does it for a living... I don't just take things as given, I try to make them into something that reflects my personal consciousness, my spirit. I try to find the poetry in the image.”
                                
                                
                                    ― Robert James Waller, quote from The Bridges of Madison County
                                
                            
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