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How come when mortals want things, their only option is to make a deal with Hell and sell their soul? Why can’t they make deals with God in exchange for good behavior?" It was another of those rare moments when I’d surprised Carter. I waited for the glib answer I’d mentioned to Seth, something along the lines of goodness being its own reward. The angel considered for several seconds. "Humans make those deals all the time," he said finally. "They just don’t make them with God." "Then who are they making them with?" I exclaimed. "Themselves. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#fiction #georgina #god #paranormal #romance

All the best, Sydney P.S. "The Red Hurricane" is what I named the car. P.P.S. Just because I like you, it doesn't mean I still don't think you're an evil creature of the night. You are. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#richelle-mead #rose-hathaway #vampire-academy #vampire-academy-series #evil

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#exists #fashion #happening #ideas #live

He was trying to tell me something.' Derek snorted. 'Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#derek #ghosts #necromancer #supernatural #urban-fantasy

When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out. ↗

— John Green

#idea

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#opinions #idea

Libraries were full of ideas–perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons. ↗

— Sarah J. Maas

#libraries #sarah-j-maas #throne-of-glass #idea

Sometimes I feel so- I don’t know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer space with no idea where I’m going’ Like a little lost Sputnik?’ I guess so. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#idea

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#on-writing #idea

The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#idea