Quick Quotes Round Two

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Beans have been sent!

Our last prompt for February is:

Step 5 in my evil plan to take over the world

For example:
The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions.
From: Willfully Ignorant by Pat Miller
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Step 5 in my evil plan to take over the world

From Madam, Will You Talk? by Mary Stewart
"Let's go and have lunch."
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Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.
--- Dragon Blood by Patricia Briggs
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Tell the truth as much as you can, and if you have to lie, make it obvious. That makes it easier to slip the important lies past people.
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Beans have been awarded for the previous prompt. :)

Our first for March is....
the moral of the story is....

For example:
In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
from the Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.
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the moral of the story is....

From Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
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What you have to do with your mind when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.
From A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
--- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
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No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.
L. Frank Baum, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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Beans have gone out!

This weeks (belated) prompt is...
Part of a toast

For example:
may your shadow never grow bulkier!
From Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers.
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Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.
Lemony Snicket, "The Austere Academy
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Part of a toast

from Divine interventions: true stories of mystery and miracles that change lives by Dan Millman
Live according to your highest light, and more light shall be given.
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Just because something seems impossible doesn’t make it untrue.
--- A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
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For when the world was darkest, I remembered you.
From The Enchanted Sonata by Heather Dixon Wallwork
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Beans have been sent out for the last prompt!

Our next one is....
Something you'd be surprised to find in a coat pocket

For instance....
A slim goblet of beaten gold raised upon a long stem set with small rubies, arranged so that a red glow wrapped the cup above and the circular foot below, which was also rimmed with rubies or tiny chips of ruby.
From Clariel by Garth Nix
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No human metal had gone into the forging of that blade. It was alive with moonlight, translucent, a shard of crystal so thin that it seemed to almost vanish when seen edge-on.
From: A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
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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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CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.
--- Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
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”Nobody knows what a boggart looks like when he is alone, but when I let him out, he will immediately become whatever each of us most fears.”
J.K. Rowling, "Prisoner of Azkaban
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Beans have been sent out!

Our last prompt for March is....
The words that bring an end to an argument

For example....
Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary
- Lady Knight by Tamora Pierce
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I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.
--- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
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