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You’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes,” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals

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My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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Adults Book Groups
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I’ve just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
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Book Forgiving Habit
We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
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Ignorance Neglect Rulers
I recognize that on paper, you can’t really tell that I’m a fan or a nerd.
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Fans Nerd Paper Trouble
Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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Advice Seriously Writing
The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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Learning Nonstop Process Wonderment
The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.
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Hero Real Sidekicks Villian
I’ve only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read ‘The Long Walk,’ one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read ‘The Dark Half,’ which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read ’11/22/63.’
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Book Dark Kings Pseudonymous
I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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East Tribe Way
Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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Careful Catch Hunts Lest
Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?” “Oh, absolutely,” Quentin said. “Maybe even more.
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Hate Parent Promise
Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
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Enthcuse Intelligent Tree
Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else.
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Doors Real Secret Stop Waiting
Maybe there’s a sense that technology isn’t necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world – a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.
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Feelings Real Technology
The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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Good Make Stories
His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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Jokes Personality Whole

You’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes,” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals

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You’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes,” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals

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