Quick Quotes Round Two

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Love is a great beautifier.
From Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who’s going to stop me.”
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Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
David Mitchell, "Cloud Atlas"
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Succinct and sweet
I have never felt sleepy after eating lettuces;
The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies
- Beatrix Potter
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Beans have been given out. ^_^

January 2022 Quick Quotes Round Two is wrapped up with:

Food, wonderful food

From Madam, Will You Talk? by Mary Stewart
The dinner that I had dreamed up proved to be every bit as good as the dream. We began with iced melon, which was followed by the famous brandade truffée, a delicious concoction of fish cooked with truffles. We could quite contentedly have stopped there, but the next course--some small bird like a quail, simmered in wine and served on a bed of green grapes--would have tempted an anchorite to break his penance. Then crêpes Suzette, and, finally, coffee and armagnac.
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Post your quotes for the prompt below. Please be sure to make sure that the quotes you post (and the books they come from) are HOL-appropriate. Thank you.
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Whipped cream isn’t whipped cream at all if it hasn’t been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn’t poached eggs unless it’s been stolen in the dead of the night.
Roald Dahl, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
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And the children... Chocolate curls, white buttons with colored vermicelli, pain d'épices with gilded edging, marzipan fruits in their nests of ruffled paper, peanut brittle, clusters, cracknells, assorted misshapes in half-kilo boxes... I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crash-crash-crashing among the hazels and nougatines...
From Chocolat by Joanne Harris
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Food, Wonderful Food
Hallo! A great deal of steam! The pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook’s next door to each other, with a laundress’s next door to that! That was the pudding! In half a minute Mrs Cratchit entered — flushed by smiling proudly — with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.
From: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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And when they had finished the fish, Mrs Beaver brought unexpectedly out of the oven a great and gloriously sticky marmalade roll, steaming hot, and at the same time moved the kettle onto the fire, so that when they had finished the marmalade roll the tea was made and ready to be poured out.
--- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
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Beans have been sent!

Our first Quick Quote for February is:

Part of a fortune teller's prophecy

For Example:
Daughter of the Erl-King and the Elfen Queen, that’s who you are.
From Witch Child by Celia Rees

*****Post your quotes for the prompt below. Please be sure to make sure that the quotes you post (and the books they come from) are HOL-appropriate. Thank you.*****
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Part of a fortune teller's prophecy

from Illusions II The Adventures of a Reluctant Student by Richard Bach
Love is real. All else, dreams.
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I have read for countless people on innumerable subjects and the most difficult thing to understand within the cards is always the timing. I knew that, and still it surprised me. How long I was willing to wait for something that was only a possibility. I always thought it was just a matter of time but I was wrong.
Erin Morgenstern, "The Night Circus

Feel like I’m stretching here, but this is the quote in my soul for the prompt. <3
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A double-edged sword
One side destroys
One releases
I am your Gordian knot
Will you release or destroy me?
--- Burned by P.C. and Kristin Cast
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Beans have been sent!

Our next prompt for February is:

The meaning of life is…

For Example:
The existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.
From: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

*****Post your quotes for the prompt below. Please be sure to make sure that the quotes you post (and the books they come from) are HOL-appropriate. Thank you.*****
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We're not alone, you know, children. All through the universe, it's being fought. All through the cosmos. And my, but it's a grand and exciting battle! I know it's hard for you to understand about size, how there's very little difference in the size of the tiniest microbe and the greatest galaxy. Maybe it won't seem strange to you that some of our very best fighters have come right from your own planet. And it's a little planet, dears, out on the edge of a little galaxy. You can be proud that it's done so well.
Madeleine L'Engle, "A Wrinkle in Time

I love this quote and use it here and there/think of it regularly. While it was the first thing that came to mind, I was initially about to search for something different when a memory popped up on my social media with the same quote I’d posted there four years ago today. Seemed like a nudge to go for it.
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The meaning of life is…

from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.”

More of the quote, for those who haven't read that in a while or ever ...

“O Deep Thought computer," he said, "the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to tell us...." he paused, "The Answer."
"The Answer?" said Deep Thought. "The Answer to what?"
"Life!" urged Fook.
"The Universe!" said Lunkwill.
"Everything!" they said in chorus.
[Seven and a half million years later.... Fook and Lunkwill are long gone, but their descendents continue what they started]
"Good Morning," said Deep Thought at last.
"Er..good morning, O Deep Thought" said Loonquawl nervously, "do you have...er, that is..."
"An Answer for you?" interrupted Deep Thought majestically. "Yes, I have."
The two men shivered with expectancy. Their waiting had not been in vain.
"There really is one?" breathed Phouchg.
"There really is one," confirmed Deep Thought.
"To Everything? To the great Question of Life, the Universe and everything?"
"Yes."
Both of the men had been trained for this moment, their lives had been a preparation for it, they had been selected at birth as those who would witness the answer, but even so they found themselves gasping and squirming like excited children.
"And you're ready to give it to us?" urged Loonsuawl.
"I am."
"Now?"
"Now," said Deep Thought.
They both licked their dry lips.
"Though I don't think," added Deep Thought. "that you're going to like it."
"Doesn't matter!" said Phouchg. "We must know it! Now!"
"Now?" inquired Deep Thought.
"Yes! Now..."
"All right," said the computer, and settled into silence again. The two men fidgeted. The tension was unbearable.
"You're really not going to like it," observed Deep Thought.
"Tell us!"
"All right," said Deep Thought. "The Answer to the Great Question..."
"Yes..!"
"Of Life, the Universe and Everything..." said Deep Thought.
"Yes...!"
"Is..." said Deep Thought, and paused.
"Yes...!"
"Is..."
"Yes...!!!...?"
"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.”
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Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.
--- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
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Beans have been sent!

Our next prompt for February is:

A message in a bottle

For example:
Do not be silent. Raise your voice. Be a light in the dark.
From Cinderella is Dead by Kalyan Bayron

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Curiosity is, after all, the way we answer when intuition whispers, “There’s something there.”
Gavin de Becker, "The Gift of Fear
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It is late now, I am a bit tired; the sky is irritated by stars. And I love you, I love you, I love you – and perhaps this is how the whole enormous world, shining all over, can be created – out of five vowels and three consonants.
--- Letters to Vera by Vladimir Nabokov
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A message in a bottle

From 'Travels with Puff' by Richard Bach
Don't worry what we're supposed to learn this time around. Follow what we most love in all the world, and we'll learn it.
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