Jennifer Donnelly - A Northern Light (2003)

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I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

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For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.

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There is an advantage to be found in most everything that happens to you, even if it is not immediately apparent.

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It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot...It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope.

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Make them care, Mattie,' she said softly. 'And don't you ever be sorry.' -Emily Wilcox

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What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched from floor to ceiling and lined the entire room. I turned around and around in a slow circle, feeling as if I'd just stumbled into Ali Baba's cave. I was breathless, close to tears, and positively dizzy with greed.

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They leave things behind sometimes, the guests. A bottle of scent. A crumpled handkerchief. A pearl button that fell off a dress and rolled under a bed. And sometimes they leave other sorts of things. Things you can't see. A sigh trapped in a corner. Memories tangled in the curtains. A sob fluttering against the windowpane like a bird that flew in and can't get back out. I can feel these things. They dart and crouch and whisper.

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A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.

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Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.

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