Death is only frightening from the near side. - Jim Butcher

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For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it.

Jim Butcher

Death is only frightening from the near side.

Death, Dresden Files, Frightening, Side, Sides

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There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

Choice, Choices, Mean, Might, Options, Suck

Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better.

Fun, Good, Kiddo, Long, Run, Running

The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.

Avoid, Choices, Convenience, People, Place, Strong

Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

Growing, Growing Up, Hurt, Move, Moving

There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.

Baby, Conjure, Different, Magic, Tell

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Maybe he sees it on my face, that fraction of a second when I let my guard down, because in that moment his expression softens and his eyes go bright as flame and even though I barely see him move, suddenly he has closed the space between us and he’s wrapping his warm hands over my shoulders—fingers so warm and strong I almost cry out—and saying, “Lena. I like you, okay? That’s it. That’s all. I like you. ” His voice is so low and hypnotic it reminds me of a song. I think of predators dropping silently from trees: I think of enormous cats with glowing amber eyes, just like his.

Cry, Hes, I Like You, Move, Song, Strong

James Nasmyth

Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.

England, Foundries, Hammers, Introduced, Length, Russia

Edward Abbey

The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

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Marlon Brando

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

Acting, Away, Becomes, Faces, Inches, Your Face

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Aspiration, Blessing, Prayer, Spirit, Wish