• Americans: That character can't die, they're the main character!
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“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”

—Stephen King (via cosive)

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“I couldn’t live where there were no trees — something vital in me would starve.”

L.M Montgomery (via seabois)

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“There’s nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you’ve read only once can’t.”

—Gail Carson Levine, Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly (via kerryquotesquotes)

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“Why was it, I wondered, that I was most passionate talking about books I had loved? In the dream it was easy. Those books honored me; those books changed me. Alone, the greatest writers would sit with me and, in their own voices, tell me everything there was to know about the world.”

—Tom Wingo in The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy (via prettybooks)

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