Finish the Quote - Take Two

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Re: Finish the Quote - Take Two

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”The key is to never let someone else tell you..”

"to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else."
from The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

Ending up with
The key is to never let someone else tell you to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.
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Re: Finish the Quote - Take Two

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Finishing: “that dragons can be beaten.”
From Coraline by Neil Gaiman

New quote: "The key is to never let someone else tell you that dragons can be beaten."
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Re: Finish the Quote - Take Two

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New Quote: “The snozberries taste like snozberries!” — Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Completed Quote:
The key is to never let someone else tell you the snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Beans have been sent!

Our next prompt for November is:

“You asked about my tale of suffering and I wanted you to see that…”
From: The Second Life of Mirielle West by Amanda Skenandore

Finishing the Quote:
“ Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”
From The Child Thief by Gerald Brom

Ending with:
“You asked about my tale of suffering and I wanted you to see that men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”
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Re: Finish the Quote - Take Two

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Finishing the Quote : - "People learned to live with the most unimaginable things. " From "And the Mountains Echoed" , by Khaled Hosseini.

Ending With: - "You asked about my tale of suffering and I wanted you to see that people learned to live with the most unimaginable things. " .
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New Quote: “You know when you’ve stepped across the line into evil, and it’s your life’s challenge to try and stay on the right side of that line.” — Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Completed Quote:
You asked about my tale of suffering and I wanted you to see that you know when you’ve stepped across the line into evil, and it’s your life’s challenge to try and stay on the right side of that line.
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“You asked about my tale of suffering and I wanted you to see that…”

" ... life finds a way."
from Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Ending with
You asked about my tale of suffering and I wanted you to see that life finds a way.
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Beans have been sent!

Our last quote for November is:

“It’s no use going back to yesterday because…’
From Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Finishing the quote:
“ perhaps fantasies are only meant to come true for a moment.”
FromThe Sea Witch by Sarah Henning

Ending with:
“It’s no use going back to yesterday because perhaps fantasies are only meant to come true for a moment.”
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“It’s no use going back to yesterday because…’

"Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?"
from A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

Ending up with

It’s no use going back to yesterday because nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?
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New Quote: “…as you can see, the chaos of the world has an underlying order.” — Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

Completed Quote:
It’s no use going back to yesterday because, as you can see, the chaos of the world has an underlying order.
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Re: Finish the Quote - Take Two

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Finishing: “it was the worst of times”
From A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens

New quote: "It’s no use going back to yesterday because it was the worst of times"
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Beans have been sent out. :)

Our first quote for December is:
And, as always happens, and happens far too soon,…
– Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett

Matched with:
people make their own future through the balance of each day's little kindnesses and cruelties.
- The Bone Doll's Twin by Lynn Flewelling

Resulting in:
And, as always happens, and happens far too soon,… people make their own future through the balance of each day's little kindnesses and cruelties.
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"And, as always happens, and happens far too soon,..."

"...by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby." - Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

"And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby."
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And, as always happens, and happens far too soon,..."

Adding:
“… in our scrabbling for food, in the washing of our bodies and warming of them, in our small daily battles -- we can forget our souls. ”
From: Corrag by Susan Fletcher

Finishing with:
“ And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, in our scrabbling for food, in the washing of our bodies and warming of them, in our small daily battles -- we can forget our souls. ”
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Finishing: “you will go out and let stories happen to you
From Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

New quote: "And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, you will go out and let stories happen to you"
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Adding:
They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.
From “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” by Ocean Vuong

Resulting in:
And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, they say nothing lasts forever by they’re scared it will last longer than they can love it.
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And, as always happens, and happens far too soon,…


"... there was a gust of wind, and they were gone."
from A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine l'Engle

Ending with
And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, there was a gust of wind, and they were gone.
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New Quote: “I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.” — Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Completed Quote:
And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.
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Re: Finish the Quote - Take Two

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Beans should be winging their way to people now.

This week we have....
He devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligence to…
– If Only They Could Talk by James Herriot

Matched with:
…following little birdies.
– First Test by Tamora Pierce

It gives us:
He devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligence to following little birdies.
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“ He devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligence to…”

Adding:
“… lessons in magic from a mysterious boy who belonged to a hidden Ferisher court called the Wild.”
From Corsets & Clockwork by Ann Maguirre

Finishing with:
“He devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligent to lessons in magic from a mysterious boy who belonged to a hidden Ferisher court called the Wild.”
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