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"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't."
"Looking backwards it's a poor form of memory that only works backwards." - Lewis Carroll
"Happy families are all happy in the same way; unhappy families are all unhappy in different ways." - Leo Tolstoy
"Eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, has to be the truth." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words can be." - Saffie Hadley, Noughts and Crosses
"It's better to reign in Hell than serve in heaven."
"True courage is about knowing not when to take a life but when to spare one." - Gandalf
"I'm so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. But I'm so lonely." - Little Women
"The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?"
"To destroy the beauty from which one came." - Sean Carter, better known as Jay-Z
"Something wicked this way comes." - Cletus Cassidy
"By the pricking of my thumb, something wicked this way comes."
"Tho much is taken much abides and tho we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven that which we are we are one equal temper of heroic."
"This is a secret service altogether, my credentials and memoranda are all comprehended in the one line: 'Recalled to life'."
"These are the best of times and these are the worst of times." - Michael Sharp
"Victorian science would have left the world hard and clean and bare like a landscape on the moon. But this science is in truth but a little light in the darkness." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"Observe the plans within plans within plans." - The Baron
"The past is never dead. It is not even really past."
"Fair and foul are near of kin, and fair needs foul." - W.B. Yeats
"These violent delights will have violent ends."
"It is a far, far better thing that I do now than I have ever done. It is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
"The only duty we owe to history is to rewrite it, rewrite it, rewrite it." - Oscar Wilde
""Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!–I have as much soul as you,–and full as much heart!"
"The greatest gift we have is to bear their pain without breaking, Charles."
"What is the quote that they would like the most for this person they want to reach out? 'I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world as me.'" - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams." - Dawn Delilo
"The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves."
"There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind does never blow on England."
"Nothing warms a heart quite like romance." - Eric Foss
"I charge you to be brave, to be just, to defend the innocent." - Jaime
"Every happy family is the same and every unhappy family is unhappy in their own way."
"Keep your secrets. Go back to the shadow. You cannot pass." — Gandalf
"The past is never dead, it's not even the past."
"You shall see and you shall confess that I do not lie," said Morgoth.
"Though this be madness, yet there is a method in it."
"The past is never dead," William Faulkner wrote. "It is not even past."
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." - Charles Dickens
"A labyrinth with no exits, a maze with no prize." - Henry
"Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!"
"Do not go gently into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
"It will have blood they say blood will have blood..."
"Jack London once said, 'It's not always the ability to play a good hand but the ability to play a poor hand well.'"
"All the world's a stage." - William Shakespeare
"Violence is the last Refuge of the incompetence."
"What makes the desert beautiful," the little prince said, "is that it hides a well somewhere."
"My love for Edgar is like the leaves on the trees, I'm sure time will change it. But my love for Heathcliff is like the rocks in the ground, necessary and unchanging. He's always, always in my heart."
"I shall have no rest till I do, but I don't like the carving-knife, Mr. Hindley," I answered. "It has been cutting red herrings. I'd rather be shot if you please."
"You play The Game of Thrones, you win or you die."
"We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present anyway. We know when it's too late." - Stephen King
"We're going there and back again."
"To live! I want to live!" he said to himself.
"Comfort yourself," said Sir Lancelot, "for we shall win for ourselves great honor, much more if we die in this wise than in any other since die we must."
"You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.
"But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight—Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!"
"A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet."
"That is not dead which can eternal lie."
"It does not seem to have done you any harm," said Aragorn. "Indeed, you look in the bloom of your health."
"Strange songs have been sung of the drafts of Fangorn," said Legolas.
"What will you decide, Yasna? She who loves Alethkar?"
"The world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies."
"True opener of mine eyes, prime Angel blest, Much better seems this Vision, and more hope Of peaceful dayes portends, then those two past…"
"Had the years so unmanned you that you tremble at the shadow of an unborn child?"
"And when your tears have drowned you, the valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you."
"I am more an antique Roman than a Dane."
"Betrayal hurts because it never comes from enemies but from the people we love the most," said Thor.
"Oh brave new worlds, that have such people in them!"
"Time, Captain," Quarrel came out from the beach.
"There's none so discreet and wise as thou art."
"We defy augury: there is a special Providence in the fall of a sparrow."
"Fear no more the heat o' the sun / Nor the furious winter's rages."
"Never send to ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
"The war is everywhere," Sirius replied.
"'Listen, the children of the night. What sweet music they make.'"
"Promise you'll wear it into the arena, Katniss?" "Promise."