Quick Quotes - Round Three

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Beans have been sent!

The next prompt for April is:

Sage advice:
You can't just keep collecting de dead. You gonna have to find a way to take what you got and work wit dat.
From: Toe to Toe by Deborah Leblanc
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From “The Starless Sea” by Erin Morgenstern:
We’re here to wander through other people’s stories, searching for our own.
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Sage advice:

"It's not risky. It's suicidal."

from Sweep in Peace by Ilona Andrews
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Aim higher in case you fall short.
From Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
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Don't take the high ground and assume you already know what you'll do.
From The Fiery Heart by Richelle Mead
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Beans are on the way!

The next prompt for April is:

A name for a cat
Chio
From: The Door by Lorilyn Roberts
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Boots
From Gregor and the Code of Claw by Suzanne Collins
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A name for a cat

"Of the Twilight the Darkness"

from Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett
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From “The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster:
Odious Wasp.
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Beans have been sent!

The last prompt for April is:

Words on the entrance sign to a haunted castle
Everyone has a nightmare...Maybe I want you to be mine.
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Supernova by Marissa Meyer
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Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.
From The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery
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From “Coraline” by Neil Gaiman:
We have teeth and we have tails
We have tails, we have eyes
We were here before you fell
You will be here when we rise.
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Beans have been sent!

Our first prompt for May is:
A question for the ages.

From Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb:
Is it the nature of the world that all things seek a rhythm, and in that rhythm a sort of peace?
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Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends?
From Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
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How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?
From Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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From “Spinning Silver” by Naomi Novik:
I’m not a fool, to take gifts from monsters. Where do you think its power comes from?
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A question for the ages.
Is life ever not "this moment"?
from Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle
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Beans have been sent!

Our next prompt is:
Something you would find on a signpost in a fantasy setting.

From The Innocent Mage by Karen Miller:
An elaborate cast-iron gate
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From “The Farthest-Away Mountain” by Lynne Reid Banks:
Three good heads are better than one,
Even though they be of stone.
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You shouldn't joke about fairies.
From What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
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