It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.
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However unlikely it may seem, it is the truth and, therefore, one hundred percent likely.
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Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad.
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The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.
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Anything is a poem if you say it often enough.
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Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying.
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What happens to the West happens to Snow White, which is to say they both turn into jokes.
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Sweet as cherries, bright as berries, light of my moony sky.
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Rich girls aren't criminals, don't you know? They're just troubled, poor things.
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It's Survival of Them Who's Best at Nicking Things, girl!
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Never give up your voice for a man, you fucking guppy.
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War must always be done out of sight, it shocks people and they stop immediately.
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I'm an extra in your story. Well, you're an extra in mine, boy.
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And that's how you begin to win over a child. People who share a secret share a heart.
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All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory.
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When you can change something just by saying a word, that is magic.
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What mirrors we are, set to face each other, reflecting desire.
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Who knows what wild things Sleeping Beauty dreamt of while waiting to awake?
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Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.
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When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.
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