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“A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Target Market #Target #Boundaries
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“Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Mistake #Way #Sometimes
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“Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Love Is #Luxury #People
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“I prefer a cluttered workspace.”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Clutter #Workspace
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“I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Praying
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“Sometimes you meet someone and you know that your life will be different from then on.”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Different #Sometimes
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“And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Art #Dirty #Book
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“First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather, to encourage cliché, to uphold the virtues of average. You hand over the need to be understood and, in return, you get a bar of Normal soap. And you can wash in it and be daily reborn to a safe world of modest, enduring love or, at least, mild, well-mannered bonding.”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Love #Average #Hands
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“People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts-if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren't natural.”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Heart #Differences #People
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“But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.”
-- Julianna Baggott
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“Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Years #Stronger #Fans
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“It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Children #Ideas #Profound
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“When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual”
-- Julianna Baggott
#World #Obsession #Mutual
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“Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Lying #Omission #Sin
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“Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Giving Up #Past #Weakness
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“She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Demand #Let Him Go #Release
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“Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Fall #Love Is #Giving
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“I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Running #Believe #Men
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“Beauty, you can find it here if you look hard enough.”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Looks #Enough
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“She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the worst kind of whisper, the kind that draws you in, gives you hope.”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Lying #Real #Giving
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“She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if she's already gone, as if he's practicing sorrow.”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Grandfather #Sorrow #Doe
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“Our stories are what we have,†Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Mother #Giving #Stories
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“Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Want
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“Memories are like water.”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Memories #Water
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“I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Too Much #Feels
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“I prefer true over happy now.”
-- Julianna Baggott
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“Our love is our burden.”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Love Is #Our Love #Burden
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“So far, I should be calm and more specifically not like that...Anything else? Would you like to do surgery on my personality? How about open-heart surgery? I´ve got some tools”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Heart #Personality #Tools
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“Are there books about us or something?†This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive.”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Real #Book #Ideas
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“I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to have some idea of the shape of the novel, where its headed, so that I can proceed with confidence. But the truth is my characters start doing and saying things I don't expect.”
-- Julianna Baggott
#Art #Writing #Character
