What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the rules give you a right to exist provided you do what the real ones or brutes say. What makes you into me or Charles Morgan is that the rules allow all the girls to be better than me and all the boys better than Charles Morgan.

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Mots clés bullying childhood-is-terrible

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Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

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Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest

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Mots clés planets

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So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?"

"Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

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Mots clés humor bravery cowardice

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Charles realized that if he were going to apologize to Chrestomanci, he had better do it at once. He turned around to say it. But the folds had already rippled flat and nothing was the same anymore....

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It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.

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Mots clés howl-pendragon

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I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.

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Mots clés star sophie

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Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then dismissed him from his presence. Death was too embarrassed to return until many years later- Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances

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Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World. - Ka'a Ort'o, Gnomic Utterances, Civ

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It's just as I thought," she said. "I prefer you to every single one of these. Some of these look far too proud of themselves, and some look selfish and cruel. You are unassuming and kind. I intend to ask my father to marry me to you, instead of to the Prince in Ochinstan. Would you mind?

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Mots clés flower-in-the-night

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