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Here's a summary of the top 2 most popular quotes taken from the most popular fantasy titles as reported by Kindle readers...
1) Weirdly, strangely—wonderfully—he knew this was the moment he was touching the bottom, and he understood that from now on, however gradually, he would begin to heal.
2) He closed his eyes. When he opened them, he was not any less sad, but he felt free.
Midnight Crossroad
- Charlaine Harris
1) At some point during all those nights I’d spent with her, I’d become hers.
2) She was the most beautiful to behold—not because her appearance drew me in above and beyond the others. No. She was beautiful because, at a time when she had every right to be terrified, she managed to show comfort to another person who needed it.
A Shade of Vampire
- Bella Forest
1) Courage isn’t the absence of fear, Owen. Courage is moving forward even when you’re afraid.
2) The reason most people don’t arrive at a destination is they never embark. They think of all the reasons why they can’t do it, so they don’t even try
The Queen's Poisoner
- Jeff Wheeler
1) Never expect anything less than devotion from someone who has claim on your heart.
2) People say time machines don’t exist, but they do. They’re your friends, and being around them takes you right back to that place in time you had long since put away.
Seven
- Dannika Dark
1) It was all the choices you made in your life that determined who you were, not some abstract notion you made up in your mind, with motivations and feelings filtering out the ugly.
2) People believed what they wanted. Most of the time it’s the things they find most beneficial to their situation, and they do all sorts of mental gymnastics to make it fit neatly into their reality.
The Wilds
- Donna Augustine
1) For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary. It is all. It is undying. And it is enough.
2) We have nothing now between us, save—respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies.
Outlander
- Diana Gabaldon
1) Family isn’t who you share blood with but who will bleed for you. It’s the people who love you through your tragedies and stick around
2) A father isn’t a man who’s willing to start a war for his child, but a man who’s willing to stop one.
One Second
- Dannika Dark
1) After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
2) to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- J. K. Rowling
1) It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
2) Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- J. K. Rowling
1) Never forget that when thirteen dine together, the first to rise will be the first to die!”
2) Non-magic people (more commonly known as Muggles) were particularly afraid of magic in medieval times, but not very good at recognizing it. On the rare occasion that they did catch a real witch or wizard, burning had no effect whatsoever. The witch or wizard would perform a basic Flame-Freezing Charm and then pretend to shriek with pain while enjoying a gentle, tickling sensation. Indeed, Wendelin the Weird enjoyed being burned so much that she allowed herself to be caught no less than forty-seven times in various disguises.
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban
- J. K. Rowling
1) If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
2) You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fires
- J. K. Rowling
1) Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young
2) Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- J. K. Rowling
1) It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
2) Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right,
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
- J. K. Rowling
1) Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love.
2) Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- J. K. Rowling
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