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    Priya Ardis
    “Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.
    He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.”
    ― Priya Ardis, Ever My Merlin
    tags: action, adventure, arthurian, arthurian-collection, camelot, coming-of-age, fairy-tales, fantasy, fiction, greek-mythology, history, love, magic, merlin, mermaid, mythology, novel, paranormal, paranormal-romance, poseidon, retellings, romance, sea-creatures, sword, sword-and-sorcery, teen, time-travel, urban-fantasy, wizards, women-s-fiction, ya, ya-fantasy, ya-paranormal, ya-romance, young-adult
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    Madeline Miller
    “He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
    tags: circe, greek-mythology, intimacy, love, odysseus, scars, vulnerability
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    Priya Ardis
    “Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.”
    Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.”
    ― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening
    tags: action, adventure, arthurian, arthurian-collection, camelot, coming-of-age, fairy-tales, fantasy, fiction, greek-mythology, history, love, magic, merlin, mermaid, mythology, novel, paranormal, paranormal-romance, poseidon, retellings, romance, sea-creatures, sword, sword-and-sorcery, teen, time-travel, urban-fantasy, wizards, women-s-fiction, ya, ya-fantasy, ya-paranormal, ya-romance, young-adult
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  • #4
    “Narcissistic personality disorder is named for Narcissus, from Greek mythology, who fell in love with his own reflection. Freud used the term to describe persons who were self-absorbed, and psychoanalysts have focused on the narcissist's need to bolster his or her self-esteem through grandiose fantasy, exaggerated ambition, exhibitionism, and feelings of entitlement.”
    ― Donald W. Black, DSM-5 Guidebook: The Essential Companion to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
    tags: entitlement, fantasy, grandiose, greek-mythology, mythology, narcissism, narcissist, narcissistic, narcissus, personality-disorder, self-absorbed
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    Rodney Dangerfield
    “Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.”
    ― Rodney Dangerfield
    tags: crime, funny, humour
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: fantasy, literature, philosophy
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: fantasy, fear, kvothe, man-s, name, patrick-rothfuss, wind, wise
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: fantasy
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    Criss Jami
    “Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
    ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
    tags: art, artist, artistic, contemplating, dreams, experience, fantasy, fun, imagination, life, perception, perspective, poetry, reading, reality, solitude, songwriting, thinking, thoughts, universe, vicarious, writing
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: dreams, fantasy, life, living, pain, suffering
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    P.C. Cast
    “Because you are the superhero fledgling. I’m just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions.”
    ― P.C. Cast, Untamed
    tags: aphrodite, fantasy, romance, young-adult, zoey
    549 likes



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