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I shall now display to you a quote.


Why must I unpack my heart with words?
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet

- flourish - Here ye go.

Allons-y,
Amber Shipp

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"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
~ Victor Hugo

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I said I wanted to face the gods; but how can they face us until we have faces?

~ C. S. Lewis, Until We Have Faces.

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"You need to think outside the box."

"I live outside the box."

~ Hill and Coulson, Marvel's Agents of SHIELD.

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All rightey, here we go. More Quote, Unquotes from Amber Shipp! First one in a few months, and I'm actually kind of excited.
So, as Annabelle knows, I have been gushing about Les Miserables by Victor Hugo lately (ahem, Annabelle, I still want you to read it/watch it/whatever it. In fact, I have the huge novel right at my elbow), and so I shall now present to you one of my favourite quotes.

"So be it," added Enjolras, "A word more. In executing that man, I obeyed necessity; but necessity is a monster of the old world, the name of necessity is Fatality. Now the law of progress is, that monsters disappear before angels, and that Fatality vanish before Fraternity. This is not a moment to pronounce the word love. No matter, I pronounce it, and I glorify it. Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood. As Satan shall be no more, so Michael shall be no more. In the future, no man shall slay his fellow, the earth shall be radiant, the human race shall love. It will come, citizens, that day when all shall be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it will come, and it is so that it may come that we are going to die."

~   Victor Hugo, Several Interrogation Points Concerning One Le Cabuc, Who Perhaps Was Not Le Cabuc, Les Miserables

Vive L' France, sweeties.

Amber Shipp

Samwise the Brave (Amber's Quote, Unquote)

As a huge Lord of the Rings geek, I shall commence to write down one of my favourite quotes. This may or may not be from the book, I do not, unfortunately, remember, but it's at a pivotal point in The Two Towers, the middle installment in Tolkien's famous three-part saga.

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow, even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines it'll shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something. That there's still some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

- Samwise Gamgee

And so I just wanted to share that.

Allons-y!

Amber