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Vera Nazarian (born 1966 in Moscow, Russia) is an Armenian-Russian (by ethnicity) American writer of fantasy, science fiction and other "wonder fiction" including Mythpunk, an artist, and the publisher of Norilana Books. She is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and the author of ten novels, including Dreams of the Compass Rose, a "collage" novel structured as a series of related and interlinked stories similar in arabesque flavor to The One Thousand and One Nights, Lords of Rainbow, a standalone epic fantasy about a world without color, the Cobweb Bride trilogy, and the Atlantis Grail books.

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Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

Education, Inspirational, Opens, Read, Reading, World

You cannot be fair to others without first being fair to yourself. Know that a well-honed sense of justice is a measure of personal experience, and all experience is a measure of self. Know that the highest expression of justice is mercy. Thus, as the supreme judge in your own court, you must have compassion for yourself. Otherwise, cede your gavel.

Compassion, Expression, Justice, Self, Sense

What is it about wearing a tuxedo or that little black dress, that makes us feel confident, beautiful, splendid, even invincible? We put on formal wear and suddenly we become extraordinary. On the days when you feel low and invisible, why not try this on for size: imagine you are wearing a fantastic tailored tuxedo or a stunning formal gown. And then proceed with your day.

Beautiful, Black, Day, Size, Tailored, Trying

It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world. We all save it every day, and we all destroy it -- in our own small ways -- by every choice we make and every tiniest action resulting from that choice. The next time you feel useless and impotent, remember what you are in fact doing in this very moment. And then observe your tiny, seemingly meaningless acts and choices coalesce and cascade together into a powerful positive whole. The world -- if it could -- will thank you for it. And if it does not. . . well, a true heroine or hero does not require it.

Choices, Coalesce, Hero, Make, Positive, Powerful

One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of a holy child. He was the Fourth to follow the Star. His gift was a secret. The rest of his journey is unknown.

Children, Glimpsing, King, Kings, Reins, Stars

My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a meta-layer of existence beyond the real world.

Brand, Devoid, Magic, Real, See, World

Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.

Course, Dessert, Eating, People

Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time -- 'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town!

Blessing, May, Report, Sent, Time, Towns

Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.

Bathroom, Desire, Fog, Like, Mirrors

I relished the sweet sense of keeping a unique secret in my mind - a wonderful magical universe that I could go to any time, any place, and no one had to know. It was my personal place, better than any I've read about in any other book. And when I wrote, I was in the process of pulling that personal universe out of nothing and into the cold reality of the greater world.

Book, Read, Reality, Sweet, Unique

Q: Why do I love thee, O Night? A: Because you know I will never answer.

Answer, Answers, Love, Night, Quiet, Thee

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

Bloom, Forth, Hurt, Riot, Smile

Strange dreams are better than no dreams at all.

Dream, Dreams, Strange, Strange Dreams

The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.

Arizona, Desert, Desiccate, Dust

If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.

Ignorant, Mind, Wish

The Gingerbread House has four walls, a roof, a door, a window, and a chimney. It is decorated with many sweet culinary delights on the outside. But on the inside there is nothing-only the bare gingerbread walls. It is not a real house-not until you decide to add a Gingerbread Room. That's when the stories can move in. They will stay in residence for as long as you abstain from taking the first gingerbread bite.

Bare, Move, Real, Stories, Sweet, Wall

Incidentally, the world is magical. Magic is simply what's off our human scale. . . at the moment.

Human, Magic, Moment, Moments, Simply, World

At some point, sitting in the school library, during reading period, I looked up from my leopard print hardcover composition notebook where I was scribbling a derivative [John Ronald Reuel ] Tolkien epic full of purple prose in tiny handwriting and thought to myself, "Damn! I am a writer! How did that happen?".

Full, Library, Notebook, Reading, School, Writer

Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead. Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.

Balance, Elegant, Life, Opposites, Passion, Two

Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self. Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean.

Circulates, Ocean, Reservoir, Self, Water

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