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• You married Elora?” “Yes, briefly.” Oren emphasized how fleeting it had been. “We were wed because we thought it would be a good way to combine our respective kingdoms. Vittra and Trylle have had their disagreements over the years, and we wanted to create peace. Unfortunately, your mother is the most impossible, irrational, horrible woman on the planet.” He smiled at me. “Well, you know. You’ve met her.

  Amanda Hocking

  Mother, Years, Would Be

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• If I wanted to honor you, I´d let you retire. I am planing to make you run the kingdom and fight the wars while I eat and drink

  George R. R. Martin

  Running, War, Fighting

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.52, Bantam

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• The kingdoms' people were at the mercy of the natures of those who rose to be their rulers. It was a gamble, and the current generation did not make for a winning hand.

  Kristin Cashore

  Winning, Hands, People

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Marry me, princess. I'll give you my kingdom—small potatoes that it is.

  Cindy Gerard

  Princess, Giving, Potatoes

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• Finn always called it Enna's Stream. He tended to refer to most anything as belonging to her--Enna's Meadow, Enna's Mountain. When he referred to Yasid as Enna's Kingdom, she said, "Isn't that your heart?" Finn smiled and kissed her hand. Isi rolled her eyes. "Oh you two are impossible." Enna laughed. "This coming from the girl who calls her husband 'sweet little bunny boy'?" Isi blushed. "That was just once.

  Shannon Hale

  Girl, Sweet, Husband

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• Men sometimes speak as if humility and meekness would rob us of what is noble and bold and manlike. O that all would believe that this is the nobility of the kingdom of heaven, that this is the royal spirit that the King of heaven displayed, that this is Godlike, to humble oneself, to become the servant of all!

  Andrew Murray

  Kings, Believe, Humility

  Andrew Murray (2005). “Humility and Absolute Surrender”, p.20, Hendrickson Publishers

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• I am Cersei of House Lannister, a lion of the Rock, the rightful queen of these Seven Kingdoms, trueborn daughter of Tywin Lannister. And hair grows back.

  George R. R. Martin

  Daughter, Queens, Hair

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.3877, Bantam

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• When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Play, Justice

  William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.147, Cambridge University Press

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• Also not the kind of place to hide a server." "Is that another pun?" She asked. "No! I swear! I didn't mean that one." ~Shell Game, Kingdom Keepers #5

  Ridley Pearson

  Mean, Games, Kind

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• I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Children, Sea, Heaven

  "Annabel Lee" l. 7 (1849)

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• He likes you, too." Finn repeated. "And don't tell me to shut up." "Shut up!" -Kingdom Keepers, Shell Game

  Ridley Pearson

  Games, Shells, Likes

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• An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in them of mental states of great strangeness ... a wordless and irrational feeling of ecstasy; or a breath of psychic pain; a sense of being spoken to from afar, from the sky or the sea; an agonizingly developed sense of hearing which can cause one to wince at the murmuring of unseen atoms; an irrational staring into the heart of some closed kingdom suddenly and briefly revealed.

  Knut Hamsun

  Pain, Heart, Sea

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• The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there. No, it is for a larger, homelier, less self-conscious caste of people who understand they are sinners because they have experienced the yaw and pitch of moral struggle.

  Brennan Manning

  Struggle, Self, People

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• It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of paradox, where through the ugly defeat of a cross, a holy God is utterly glorified. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self.

  Charles Colson

  Healing, Self, Achievement

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.25, Zondervan

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• Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in this world as a point of contact between heaven and earth, a kind of Jacob’s ladder by which the angels of God may ascend from and descend into human life. Thus the disciple stands as an envoy or a receiver by which the kingdom of God is conveyed into every quarter of human affairs.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Angel, Heaven

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• Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever is was commanders did in wartime. She resented his competence at something so tragic and senseless. She wished he, or somebody, would throw down his sword and say, 'Enough! This is a silly way to decide who's in charge!' And it seemed to her, as the beds in the healing room filled and emptied and filled, that these battles didn't leave much to be in charge of. The kingdom was already broken, and this war was tearing the broken pieces smaller.

  Kristin Cashore

  War, Silly, Healing

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.250, Penguin

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• Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?

  J. D. Salinger

  Jesus, Stupid, Heaven

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the chagrin of a lot of males, some of whom were still failing to make the grade at thirty-two.

  Jasper Fforde

  Maturity, Unique, Two

  Jasper Fforde (2010). “The Last Dragonslayer: Last Dragonslayer”, p.54, Hachette UK

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• The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become - the more we realize that everything in life is a gift. The tenor of our lives becomes one of humble and joyful thanksgiving. Awareness of our poverty and ineptitude causes us to rejoice in the gift of being called out of darkness into wondrous light and translated into the kingdom of God's beloved Son.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Humble, Son

  Brennan Manning, Michael W. Smith (2000). “The ragamuffin Gospel”, Multnomah

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• We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.

  Steve Almond

  Wise, True Friend, Book

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• She made a sound of regret. ‘We come second, you and I, Luc-ien,’ she said. ‘Our allegiance is always to our kingdoms. Without that allegiance, our people would fall.’ She placed her head back against his chest and he felt her tears. ‘This is not our time.’ ‘But that will never mean I love you less,’ he said.

  Melina Marchetta

  Regret, Fall, Love You

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• I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.

  Anais Nin

  Understanding, World, Terror

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• You were never able to break her. She is the stone of this kingdom.

  Melina Marchetta

  Stones, Able, Break

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• Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Reality, Essence

  "The Hollow Men" l. 95 (1925)

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• If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But to the love of those who are clear joy, Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist – Do not go in the direction of darkness – I tell you: suns exist.

  Rumi

  Real, Heart, Giving

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