April 2012
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March 2011
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Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of...
– Rosemarie Urquico (via kblitz)
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Rosemarie no longer has an active blog, but she can be found on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=585211028 To see the post about how she was found, please go here. Thanks to Jonathan for searching!
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January 2011
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—the principal aim of the society to be longevity...
“I used to think the most ingenious part of the whole system was how colour and mandate were interwoven. The Rules dictate every aspect of our lives, but our devotion to the Spectrum gives them credibility and relevance. But then i got to thinking that perhaps it was all much, much simpler, and that the complexity of the Rules and the strict Chromatic Hierarchy were there to serve a greater...
December 2010
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We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies...
– Neil Gaiman in his Newbery Medal Acceptance Speech, The Graveyard Book. (via incandenza)
November 2010
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When I say I love you, it's not because I want...
Buffy We were never close. You just wanted me because I was… unattainable. Spike You think that’s all that was? Buffy Please, let’s not go over the past. Spike Oh, no, no! Oh, let’s hold on here! I’ve hummed along to your pity ditty. I think I should have the mic for a bit. Buffy Fine. The stage is yours. Cheer me up. Spike You’re insufferable. Buffy ...
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Because I come close, thus, to him
“I know not if what he said is true. I should take Gwenhwyfar and be gone from here, before it becomes a scandal to all the courts of the world, that I love the wife of my king and yet… yet it is Arthur I cannot leave… I know not but what I love her only because I come close, thus, to him.”
Lancelet of the Lake Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
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A time or place for true love
“There is never,” Kristy said adamantly, “a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
Kristy Palmetto The Truth About Forever, Sarrah Dessen