"Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening."

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Source : Jim C. Hines (2013). “Libriomancer”, p.112, Random House

Jim C. Hines

#Memories Quotes #Book Quotes #Kissing Quotes

“Spiritual balance is to be straight with yourself.”
“Time and circumstance made me into this Manson guy, Satan. Society wanted to buy this evil, mass-murdering-devil-fiend. I'm nobody. I'm the hobo in line. Give me a bottle of wine and put me on a train. I don't fit into the world you guys live in, so I live over there in the shadows of it.”
“I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude that most people had children by accident, or because they drink too much on a certain night, or because birth control isn't one hundred percent, or for a thousand other reasons that really aren't very flattering.”
“Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.”
“A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon.”

Source : Joseph Alleine (1816). “An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners, in a Serious Treatise”, p.107
“It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.”
“And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because youâ€™re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer, with a tiny spark hidden somewhere inside you which cannot die, which even you cannot kill or quench and which tortures you horribly because all the odds are against its continual burning. In the midst of the foulest decay and putrid savagery, this spark speaks to you of beauty, of human warmth and kindness, of goodness, of greatness, of heroism, of martyrdom, and it speaks to you of love.”
“I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.”

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