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Breaking things is a specialty of everyone in Fairy Tail
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Hiro Mashima (Fairy Tail, Vol. 12 (Fairy Tail, #12))
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All I need is the power to be able to protect my comrades. So long as I can have the strength to do that, I don't care if I'm weaker than everyone in the world.
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Hiro Mashima (Fairy Tail, Vol. 01)
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If it's to protect our family, be it the Kingdom or the entire world... We would make anyone our enemy! That's what it means to be Fairy Tail!!
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Hiro Mashima
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None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.
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Laurie Halse Anderson (Wintergirls)
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A flower can't choose the place where it blooms, and a child can't choose the parents she's born to
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Hiro Mashima
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Fear is not evil. It tells you what you weakness is. And once you know your weakness, you can become stronger as well as kinder.
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Gildarts in Fairy tail
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Do fairies really have tails? Do they even exist... Like them this place as eternal mystery... A never ending adventure
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Makarov Dreyar Hiro mashima
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Being alive is sign of strength!
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Hiro Mashima (ใใงใขใชใผใใคใซ 31 ่ฌ่ซ็คพใญใฃใฉใฏใฟใผใบA [Fearฤซ Teiru 31 Special Edition DVD Bundle] (Fairy Tail, #31))
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Are we prepared to make an enemy out of the Kingdom? The question is, are you bastards prepared to make an enemy out of Fairy Tail?
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Hiro Mashima
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The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they don't wish to see anyone else suffer the way they did.
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Jellal Fernandes
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Such beautiful scarlet hair....Why don't we call you 'Erza Scarlet'? It's the color of your hair, that way, I won't forget it!"
-Jellal Fernandes
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Hiro Mashima
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That is our Fairy Tail!! We don't live like we have already died, like you do!! We live with our lives on the lines, you bastard!! If you don't have the courage to change things then you might as well just die!!!
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Hiro Mashima
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It's not the goodbyes that hurt, its the flashbacks that hurts
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Gray Fullbuster
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It's for my friends! For seven years...all that time...they waited for us! It was hard on them... They had sad times... They got humiliated, but they just endured it... And kept protecting the guild... It's for my friends! I want to show them...that Fairy Tail will live on!! That's why I gotta move forward!!
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Natsu Dragneel
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Mages of Fairy Tail, specialise in property damage
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Natsu of fairy tail
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Don't feel insecure just because you lost!! We are Fairy Tail! We're from the guild that doesn't know when to stop! We won't survive unless we keep running!
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Hiro Mashima
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I was once weak, I was always afraid, I hidden my tears, but I kept on going, I kept on believing, I followed my heart, I found my courage, and I realised if I hadn't believed in myself, then I wouldn't have become the person I am today
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Erza Scarlet
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I will never give up... I will never give up! As long I'm still breathing in this world... As long I'm still standing, I will never give up!!!
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Hiro Mashima
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If that monster is your Darkness, then I have reason to fight it.
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Ur
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There's nothing happy about having your fate decided for you! You have to grab your own happiness!
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Hiro Mashima
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I am already used to taking on the same sins. For a Fairy Tail Mage, the true sin is averting one's eyes... and no longer being able to believe in anyone!
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Hiro Mashima
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This is a classic story of the friendship between humans and cats. Yes. I got in a lie right from the start!
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Hiro Mashima (Fairy Tail, Vol. 01)
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Whoever looks down upon our guild, I'll shut him up!!! I will show the power of Fairy Tail!!!
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Hiro Mashima
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Is that your reason for fighting?! We're different!!! We fight for the sake of our injured friends!!! No matter if our opponents are humans, demons, or even gods!!!
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Hiro Mashima
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Come on, Jellal! You can't let yourself get taken away from you! For Erza's sake! So come here! We'll be with you too! We're on the same team, right?! Jellal!
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Hiro Mashima (ใใงใขใชใผใใคใซ 20 [Fearฤซ Teiru 20] (Fairy Tail, #20))
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When we're all alone, it might be to frightening to bear... but we're all right beside each other. We've got our friends close by! Now, there's nothing to fear! Because we're not alone!!!
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Hiro Mashima
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This is my sin for giving in to my own weaknesses. My heart just couldn't keep up with the gigantic gap between dreams and reality. -Jellal Fernandes
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Hiro Mashima
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And I realized that some things just don't work that way. Life isn't a fairy tail. And the person you fall in love with doesn't always love you back. But that's ok, because at the very least it makes you stronger. And brings you to a place where you can fall in love with yourself. And that to me is more important than finding someone that only makes you complete when they are around, It's really about Finding the person that will teach you ALL the lessons you need to know ...so that you feel complete all by yourself.ย
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Bethany Brookbank (Write like no one is reading)
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Dream tonight of peacock tails,
Diamond fields and spouter whales.
Ills are many, blessings few,
But dreams tonight will shelter you.
Let the vampire's creaking wing
Hide the stars while banshees sing;
Let the ghouls gorge all night long;
Dreams will keep you safe and strong.
Skeletons with poison teeth,
Risen from the world beneath,
Ogre, troll, and loup-garou,
Bloody wraith who looks like you,
Shadow on the window shade,
Harpies in a midnight raid,
Goblins seeking tender prey,
Dreams will chase them all away.
Dreams are like a magic cloak
Woven by the fairy folk,
Covering from top to toe,
Keeping you from winds and woe.
And should the Angel come this night
To fetch your soul away from light,
Cross yourself, and face the wall:
Dreams will help you not at all.
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Thomas Pynchon
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We'll stop it, even if my body crumbles to bits I'll stop it with my soul!
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Hiro Mashima
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I don't want...to run away by myself... because no matter what...I'd rather be together with everyone...
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Hiro Mashima
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So you're gonna end this by dying, huh? Stop running away!
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Hiro Mashima
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If you are a guild, take care of your friends. That is all I have to say.
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Hiro Mashima
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Though our paths may have diverged, you must continue to live out your life with all your might, you must never consider your own life to be something insignificant, and you must never forget about your friends for as long as you live.
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Hiro Mashima
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My comrades are alive right now!! The Exceeds are alive too!! Whether they've got magic or not, the important thing is that they're alive! These are lives, dammit!
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Hiro Mashima
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As she sustained wound after wound...the fairy should have fallen, but instead, she danced. This was Titania, the Fairy Queen.
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Hiro Mashima
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It's not a sin! Caring for your friends feelings is not a sin! If you disappear, then Aries, myself, and everyone here will be filled with sadness! You won't be repenting your sin that way!
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Hiro Mashima
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You don't die for your friends, you live for them.
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Erza Scarlet
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I am as you say a "skeleton" and i have been for quite a while
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SkullDuggery Pleasant
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Miracles do not belong to religions. Miracles belong to the desperate, which is why every religion, every philosophy, and most importantly, every fairy tale always has a moment of salvation, a eureka, an enlightenment. We are all chasing and chasing tails, running and running in circles, until a wolf or the witch or the stepmother jumps out and trips us, and we fall flat, splat, and we lie bare and bleeding and breathless and finally, finally look and see whatever it is---salvation or eureka or enlightenment or a hunter or prince or a glass slipper---in front of us. And that's what miracles are. Not solutions, but catalysts. Not answers, but chances.
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Amy Zhang (This Is Where the World Ends)
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I may not be able to see you, there may be hundreds of miles between us but I'll always be looking your way. I'll be watching over you forever.
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Makarov Dreyar Hiro mashima
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I remembered... It was the colour of your hair. Farewell...Erza. ~I'm Jellal Fernandez. What about you, Erza?(I'm Erza. Just Erza.) Well, that's kind of sad. Ohh!(Hey...What are you doing?!)It's such a pretty scarlet colour...I know! We'll give you the last name of Scarlet!(Erza...Scarlet) It's the colour of you hair! Nobody will ever forget that!~(Jellal...)
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Hiro Mashima (ใใงใขใชใผใใคใซ 20 [Fearฤซ Teiru 20] (Fairy Tail, #20))
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He flipped his spiked tail straight into the air in what could only be interpreted as an obscene gesture.
Rexi duplicated it in human form. โRight back atcha.
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Betsy Schow (Spelled (The Storymakers, #1))
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My Heart is Bounding! I can fly anywhere as long as I'm with the Nakama I Love!!!"
~Leevy
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Hiro Mashima (ใใงใขใชใผใใคใซ 15 [Fearฤซ Teiru 15] (Fairy Tail, #15))
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But they feel pain! They have feelings! And yet you call yourself a Celestial Spirit Mage?
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Hiro Mashima
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Tears are how our heart speaks when your lips cannot describe how much we've been hurt.
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Jellal Fernandes
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You
see, I came into this world just like Iโm assuming
you didโfull of excitement and
promise. I wanted to do so much good work,
help so many people, and give as much as I
could to those who needed me. But then I
learned a very harsh lessonโthe world
doesnโt always give back. I am not a tragic case of the world; I am
the worldโcruel, unfair, and not a fairy tale.
People are not born heroes or villains;
theyโre created by the people around them.
And one day when your bright-eyed and
bushy-tailed view of life gets its first taste of
reality, when bitterness and anger first run
through your veins, youโll discover that you
are just like meโand itโll scare you to death.
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Chris Colfer (The Enchantress Returns (The Land of Stories, #2))
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Moving on doesn't mean you have to forget about things. It just means you have to accept what happened and continue living.
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Erza Scarlet
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Hurt me with the truth. But never comfort me with a lie.
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Erza Scarlet
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Well now, lookie here? Some pretty strong lookin' dudes all lined up for us... Now that's what I call hospitality.
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Hiro Mashima
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Do fairies have tails? More than that, do fairies even exist? Nobody knows for sure. So this guild is like them, an eternal mystery, an eternal adventure.
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Hiro Mashima (Fairy Tail, Vol. 01)
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Even if you lose everything, something remains.
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Lucy Heartfilia
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Possibilities
I prefer movies.
I prefer cats.
I prefer the oaks along the Warta.
I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky.
I prefer myself liking people
to myself loving mankind.
I prefer keeping a needle and thread on hand, just in case.
I prefer the color green.
I prefer not to maintain
that reason is to blame for everything.
I prefer exceptions.
I prefer to leave early.
I prefer talking to doctors about something else.
I prefer the old fine-lined illustrations.
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems.
I prefer, where love's concerned, nonspecific anniversaries
that can be celebrated every day.
I prefer moralists
who promise me nothing.
I prefer cunning kindness to the over-trustful kind.
I prefer the earth in civvies.
I prefer conquered to conquering countries.
I prefer having some reservations.
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
I prefer Grimms' fairy tales to the newspapers' front pages.
I prefer leaves without flowers to flowers without leaves.
I prefer dogs with uncropped tails.
I prefer light eyes, since mine are dark.
I prefer desk drawers.
I prefer many things that I haven't mentioned here
to many things I've also left unsaid.
I prefer zeroes on the loose
to those lined up behind a cipher.
I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars.
I prefer to knock on wood.
I prefer not to ask how much longer and when.
I prefer keeping in mind even the possibility
that existence has its own reason for being.
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Wisลawa Szymborska
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Someone who could shed tears for their friends... could never be rejected from Fairy Tail!
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Hiro Mashima
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Love was a magic fairy spell. Didn't the girls in my books hunt after love like it was a deer with a white tail? Didn't love wake the dead? Didn't that lady love the beast so hard he turned into a good-looking white fellow? That was what love did. It turned you into something else.
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Catherynne M. Valente (Six-Gun Snow White)
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Don't give up, the beginning is always the hardest, so let's keep on going till the very end.
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Natsu Dragneel
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The kitten was six weeks old. It was enchanting, a delicate fairy-tale cat, whose Siamese genes showed in the shape of the face, ears, tail, and the subtle lines of its body. [...] She sat, a tiny thing, in the middle of a yellow carpet, surrounded by five worshipppers, not at all afraid of us. Then she stalked around that floor of the house, inspecting every inch of it, climbed up on to my bed, crept under the fold of a sheet, and was at home.
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Doris Lessing (On Cats)
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Natsu: This is my personal Fairy Tail style send-off party. People who leave Fairy Tail must understand three rules. One: Never release information that gives a disadvantage to Fairy Tail to anyone. Two: What was it again?
Mystgun: Never meet a previous costumer for personal gain.
Natsu: Right, right. Three: even if our paths differ, you must live life, as long as you are still strong. Never look at your life as something insignificant, never forget...
Mystgun: Those friends of yours that you loved...
Natsu: Did it reach you? If you have the spirit of the guild with you, there's nothing you can't do! I hope we can meet again, Mystgun.
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Hiro Mashima (ใใงใขใชใผใใคใซ 22 [Fearฤซ Teiru 22] (Fairy Tail, #22))
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People cry, not because they're weak. Its because they've been strong for too long.
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Mirajane Strauss
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There's no need to change the past. Because of the past we are who we are now. Every second, every action from then is linked to us here and now.
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Gray Fullbuster
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I don't care where I get hurt, as long as my injuries are visible
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Gray Fullbuster
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I will not wear a tulle-tailed dunce cap for anyone or for any reason.
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Chautona Havig (Princess Paisley (Not-So-Fairy Tales))
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Fear is not evil, it tells you what your weakness is." - Gildarts in Fairy Tail
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Bravery
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they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men...
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Alina Radoi
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I'm with you.
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Hiro Mashima
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If you're a guild, treat your comrades right. That's all I wanted to say.
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Hiro Mashima
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You must live life as long as you are still strong. Never look at your life as something insignificant.
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Natsu Dragneel
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And if that hadn't been enough, the castle cat, obviously female and obviously in heat, had sashayed in, tail straight up and perkily curved at the tip, and wound her furry little self sinuously around Adam's ankles, purring herself into a state of drooling, slanty-eyed bliss. Mr. Black, my ass, she'd wanted to snap (and she liked cats, really she did; she'd certainly never wanted to kick one before, but pleaseโ even cats?), he's a fairy and I found him, so that makes him my fairy. Back off.
-Gabby's thought on Adam
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Karen Marie Moning (The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6))
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Take it, that courage you have locked in your heart. Awaken it, wipe your tears, be strong and use that courage.
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Erza Scarlet
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What I want isn't money or pretty dresses, but a place that recognizes me as who I am. Fairy Tail is my other family, and it is a far more warming family than here!
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Lucy Heartfilia
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The air smelled like a fairy tail, glitter and green things and blood.
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Melissa Albert (The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2))
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I won't run, I will stand and look ahead to what I must do, I must face the fear, I won't let it control me anymore, I will use my heart that holds my courage and my bravery to move me forward to what I must do.
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Gray Fullbuster
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The reason we're here.....is for our friends!The ones who waited for us....for all the years we were gone.They fought through the pain......with a heartache! But even so.....they stayed strong ! And kept our guild together! We're doing this for all of them!And I'm gonna make sure that everyone here knows.......THAT THE FAIRY TAIL GUILD NEVER GAVE UP!!SO THERE'S NO WAY I'M GONNA GIVE UP NOW!!!!!!!
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Natsu Dragneel
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Erza was crying, her voice was shaking, and she was giving up. I don't want to see Erza like that. Erza should always be strong and courageous, that's why... I'LL FIGHT!!!
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Natsu Dragneel
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We don't have to know what tomorrow holds! That's why we can live for everything we're worth today!
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Natsu Dragneel
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Do you understand the sorrow of a star that cannot return to the heavens?
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Loke
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If you're so empty now, then why don't you start doing fun things? Fill yourself up with that? 'Cause the thing is, you ain't all alone, are you?
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Kyouta Shibano (ใใงใขใชใผใใคใซ ๅคไผ ๅฃๅฌใฎๅ็ซ 1 [Fearฤซ Teiru Gaiden Seibฤtลซsu no Sลryลซ 1] (Fairy Tail Gaiden, #1: The Twin Dragons of Sabertooth))
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You look so much like a cat, it occurred to me. Do you have a tail?โ Severin dropped his silverware and stared at Elle in horror. โItโs a natural, scientific inquiry,
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K.M. Shea (Beauty and the Beast (Timeless Fairy Tales, #1))
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I am not alone. I can hear them... I can hear everyone's voices... I can sense everyone's feelings... I am not alone... everyone's feelings... they support me... they are what give me the will to stand and fight!
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Natsu Dragneel
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The tail of some creature has nothing to do with it! I donโt even know what a fairy is. How could I be afraid of its tail?
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Donald Swan
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The moment you think of giving up, think of the reason why you held on so long.
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Hiro Mashima
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It is the role of a parent to stand in front of their children, and protect them even if their legs were to give out at any moment - Master Makarov
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Hiro Mashima
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Fairy, where are you going
I will gather all the light and shine it on your tomorrow
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Snow Fairy
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Everyone exists for a reason. As small as it can be. I'm sure you have a meaning too.
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Mirajane Strauss
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Comrade isn't simply a word. Comrades are about heart. It's the unconditional trust in your partners. Please, feel free to lean on me.... And I, too, will lean on you as well.
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Mavis Vermillion
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Take this drink as a token of
my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining golden bright in whatever heavy delirious weave you wish to make.
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Initially NO (Wolfing it down)
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Don't ever judge anyone , because you don't know their real story
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fairy tail
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A certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples. These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone. The king became very angry at this, and ordered the gardener to keep watch all night under the tree. The gardener set his eldest son to watch; but about twelve o'clock he fell asleep, and in the morning another of the apples was missing. Then the second son was ordered to watch; and at midnight he too fell asleep, and in the morning another apple was gone. Then the third son offered to keep watch; but the gardener at first would not let him, for fear some harm should come to him: however, at last he consented, and the young man laid himself under the tree to watch. As the clock struck twelve he heard a rustling noise in the air, and a bird came flying that was of pure gold; and as it was snapping at one of the apples with its beak, the gardener's son jumped up and shot an arrow at it. But the arrow did the bird no harm; only it dropped a golden feather from its tail, and then flew away. The golden feather was brought to the king in the morning, and all the council was called together. Everyone agreed that it was worth more than all the wealth of the kingdom: but the king said, 'One feather is of no use to me, I must have the whole bird.
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Jacob Grimm (The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales)
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Fear is not evil, it tells you what your weakness is.
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Gildarts in Fairy tail
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If you run out of strength today, borrow some from tomorrow
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Hiro Mashima
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It is love that can make us strong, but it is also love that can make us weak.
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Makarov Dreyar
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All living things eventually die. It's unavoidable. But as long as you remember, it will live on in your heart forever.
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Lisanna Strauss
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The real sin is averting your eyes and failing to believe in anyone.
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Natsu Dragneel
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room, where the golden bird sits in a wooden cage; close by it stands a beautiful golden cage; but do not try to take the bird out of the shabby cage and put it into the handsome one, otherwise you will repent it.' Then the fox stretched out his tail again, and the young man sat himself down, and away
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Jacob Grimm (Grimm's Fairy Tales)
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Now, what's my name?" says he.
"What, is that Bill?" says she.
"Noo, that ain't," says he, and he twirled his tail.
"Is that Ned?" says she.
"Noo, that ain't," says he, and he twirled his tail.
"Well, is that Mark?" says she.
"Noo, that ain't," says he.
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Joseph Jacobs (English Fairy Tales)
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When we were little, Scarlett and I were utterly convinced that we'd originally been one person in our mother's belly. We believed that somehow, half of us wanted to be born and half wanted to stay. So our heart had to be broken in two so that Scarlett could be born first, and then I finally braved the outside world a few years later. It made sense, in our pig-tailed heads--it explained why, when we ran through grass or danced or spun in circle long enough, we would lose track of who was who and it started to feel as if there were some organic, elegant link between us, our single heart holding the same tempo and pumping the same blood. That was before the attack, though. Now our hearts link only when we're hunting, when Scarlett looks at me with a sort of beautiful excitement that's more powerful than her scars and then tears after a Fenris as though her life depends on its death. I follow, always, because it's the only time when our hearts beat in perfect harmony, the only time when I'm certain, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we are one person broken in two.
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Jackson Pearce (Sisters Red (Fairytale Retellings, #1))
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Ow! Thatโฆโ A little ball of fur chewed on my slippers, not caring that my feet were still inside. Iโd never seen another creature like it. It had the auburn- colored body of a lion cub, but it also had nubby horns, wings, and a dragonโs tail. Its little black talons scratched at my leg; then it stared at me with accusa-tory ice- water blue eyes.
โNo pixing way! Prince Kato?
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Betsy Schow (Spelled (The Storymakers, #1))
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I lay there wrapped up in my corner of the blanket. I was content. I became a part of something big, something of many arms and legs, something warm and chatty. I was probably its tail or paw, or maybe even a bone. Any movement made my head spin, but still I couldnโt remember the last time when Iโd felt so comfortable. If, that morning, someone had told me that I was going to be spending the night like this, mellow and happy, drinking and listening to stories, would I have believed it? Probably not. Stories. Fairy tales. In the dark, complete with harmless dragons, basilisks, and stupid, stupid snowmen...
I almost cried from all the empathy for my packmates that was now flooding me, but managed to stop myself. Those would have been the wrong tears, drunken and maudlin.
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Mariam Petrosyan (ะะพะผ, ะฒ ะบะพัะพัะพะผ...)
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Someties it is hard to criticize, one wants only to chronicle. The good and mediocre books come in from week to week, and I put them aside and read them and think of what to say; but the "worthless" books come in day after day, like the cries and truck sounds from the street, and there is nothing that anyone could think of that is good enough for them.
In the bad type of thin pamphlets, in hand-set lines on imported paper, people's hard lives and hopeless ambitions have expressed themselves more directly and heartbreakingly than they have ever expressed in any work of art:. it is as if the writers had sent you their ripped-out arms and legs, with "This is a poem" scrawled on them in lipstick. After a while one is embarrassed not so much for them as for poetry, which is for these poor poets one more of the openings against which everyone in the end beats his brains out; and one finds it unbearable that poetry should be so hard to write - a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey in which there is for most of the players no tail, no donkey, not even a booby prize. If there were only some mechanism (like Seurat's proposed system of painting, or the projected Universal Algebra that Gรถdel believes Leibnitz to have perfected and mislaid) for reasonably and systematically converting into poetry what we see and feel and are!
When one reads the verse of people who cannot write poems - people who sometimes have more intelligence, sensibility, and moral discrimination than most of the poets - it is hard not to regard the Muse as a sort of fairy godmother who says to the poet, after her colleagues have showered on him the most disconcerting and ambiguous gifts, "Well, never mind. You're still the only one that can write poetry.
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Randall Jarrell (Kipling, Auden and Co.: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964)
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There were twenty-three females on the Keltar estate--not counting Gwen, Chloe, herself, or the cat--Gabby knew, because shortly after Adam had become visible last night, she'd met each and every one, from tiniest tot to tottering ancient.
It had begun with a plump, thirtyish maid popping in to pull the drapes for the evening and inquire if the MacKeltars "were wishing aught else?" The moment her bespectacled gaze had fallen on Adam, she'd begun stammering and tripping over her own feet. It had taken her a few moments to regain a semblance of coordination, but she'd managed to stumble from the library, nearly upsetting a lamp and a small end table in her haste.
Apparently it had been haste to alert the forces, for a veritable parade had ensued: a blushing curvaceous maid had come offering a warm-up of tear (they'd not been having any), followed by a giggling maid seeking a forgotten dust cloth (which--was anyone surprised?--was nowhere to be found), then a third one looking for a waylaid broom (yeah, right--they swept castles at midnight in Scotland--who believed that?), then a fourth, fifth, and sixth inquiring if the Crystal Chamber would do for Mr. Black (no one seemed to care what chamber might do for her; she half-expected to end up in an outbuilding somewhere). A seventh, eighth, and ninth had come to announce that his chamber was ready would he like an escort? A bath drawn? Help undressing? (Well, okay, maybe they hadn't actually asked the last, but their eyes certainly had.)
Then a half-dozen more had popped in at varying intervals to say the same things over again, and to stress that they were there to provide "aught, aught at all Mr. Black might desire."
The sixteenth had come to extract two tiny girls from Adam's lap over their wailing protests (and had stayed out of his lap herself only because Adam had hastily stood), the twenty-third and final one had been old enough to be someone's great-great-grandmother, and even she'd flirted shamelessly with the "braw Mr. Black," batting nonexistent lashes above nests of wrinkles, smoothing thin white hair with a blue-veined, age-spotted hand.
And if that hadn't been enough, the castle cat, obviously female and obviously in heat, had sashayed in, tail straight up and perkily curved at the tip, and would her furry little self sinuously around Adam's ankles, purring herself into a state of drooling, slanty-eyed bliss.
Mr. Black, my ass, she'd wanted to snap (and she liked cats, really she did; she'd certainly never wanted to kick one before, but please--even cats?), he's a fairy and I found him, so that him my fairy. Back off.
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Karen Marie Moning (The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6))