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Yes, I'm sorry you won't be coming with us," Chloe said to Alex. "But please don't worry. I'm certain The Lord has another plan for you." She glanced at me. "For both of you." "Oh, I can assure you,"said a new, deeply masculine voice from behind me. I turned to see John sitting, tall and dark and disapproving, on the back of his horse, Alastor. "He does." "Chloe wasn't talking about you," I said to John, leaning my elbows against the rough..
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They say it's always darkest until right before the dawn. I've worked on enough projects to know how true this saying really is.
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But I'm living proof you don't have to spend a lot in order to look great.
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And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.
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You know it gets me hot when you're mad. What are you wearing right now under your stethoscope?' 'You're not funny.' 'Oh, come on. I'm a little funny.
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I can command the Royal Genovian Air Force," Grandmere supposedly replied. "As well as the Royal Genovian Navy. But the one thing in the world I have no control over, Helen, is your womb. Now come along."
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Saturday, December 12, 8 p.m., the Loft I WILL PASS ALGEBRA THIS SEMESTER, and NOTHING IS GOING TO DISTRACT ME FROM STUDYING FOR THE FINAL!!!!!!!!!!! Saturday, December 12, 9 p.m., the Loft I just had to go out and see the part where Bruce Willis throws the explosives down the elevator shaft, but now I am back to work.
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mia-thermopolis
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Roses are red, violets are blue. You may not know it, but someone loves you.
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Why did we come back this way instead of popping up somewhere less...cramped?" I asked, substituting the word for I was trying not to feel weirded out that I was in my boyfriend's crypt. It was only a building, after all. A very unpleasant one. "This is a portal," he said, as if that explained everything. "A what?" "A portal," John whispered. "A direct link from here to the Underworld. That's why you don't feel dizzy this time." I hadn'..
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Actually, it's scary. Scarier than Freddy Kruger and Jason put together.
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But I guess that's just a reflection of how the educational system today, being so overcrowded and impersonal, makes it so hard for adolescents to break through the preconceived notions of one another, and get to know the real person underneath the label they're given, be it Princess, Brainiac, Drama Geek, Jock, Cheerleader, or Guy Who Hates It When They Put Corn in the Chili.
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And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too and not just girls. But the voices Joan heard were real. There's clear and substantiated proof they were real.
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Lilly: Mia, when I recognize a human soul crying out for self-actualization, I am powerless to stop myself. I must do what I can to see that that person's dream is realized. [Gee, I haven't noticed Lilly doing all that much to help me realize my dream of French-kissing her brother. But on the other hand, I have not exactly made that dream known to her.]
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mia-thermopolis
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Wow," he said, his voice as sarcastic as before. "I had no idea I was related to such an accomplished detective. Is that where you were the past couple of days? Doing undercover work? Tell me, Detective Oliviera, what else did you and your CSI team learn during your amazing investigation?" "She learned," Mr. Liu said, taking a menacing step forward, "that boys who smart off to ladies often get slapped."
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Hiding out in some cheap motel with a boy? Did my parents really think I would do something that immature and, I'm sorry, completely
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But who cooks it?" I asked, imaging an underground kitchen staffed by tiny, invisible chefs. "Who serves it?" "I don't know," he said, with a disinterested shrug. I couldn't help laughing. "John, food magically appears here three times a day, and you don't know where it comes from? You've been here for almost two hundred years. Haven't you ever tried to find out?" He shot me a sarcastic look of his own. "Of course. I have theories. I think ..
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I'm not going to tell anybody, not even Lilly. Lilly would NOT understand. NOBODY would understand. Because nobody I know has ever been in this situation before. Nobody ever went to bed one night as one person and then woke up the next morning to find out that she was somebody completely different.
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As if I would EVER give birth. I suppose a well-mannered little six-year-old would be all right, but they simply don't COME that way. You have to TRAIN them. Too tiresome. I can understand your anguish.
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Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job's got to get done and they're the only ones left to do it
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It's just that the times I'm wrong don't register in your memory with as much clarity as the times I'm right.
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I'm not scared, though. Norman has kind of thick glasses, and I bet he couldn't actually hit anything, even with a machine-gun, which even a lunatic like Norman is allowed to buy in this country thanks to our totally unrestrictive gun laws, which Michael Moscovitz says in his webzine will ultimately result in the demise of democracy as we know it.
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I'm not some shy virginal college student who only owns one shirt.
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But Grandmere is just like all those other women who go around wanting the same rights as men, but don't want to call themselves feminists. Because that isn't "feminine." --
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In everyday life, we're given a choice. Do the right thing, do nothing, or do the wrong thing. All too often, people choose to do nothing. And that's all right. It's easier. Sometimes it's difficult to know what's right and what's wrong. But every so often, a few people choose to go out of their way to do the right thing
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Once in a while you regret the road not taken Start giving up on the plans you made Once in a while you feel so forsaken Wondering why so many took, not gave Once in a while you ask, how could this happen? How did I end up in these shoes? But once in a while you meet a special someone Someone who chose the same path as you And suddenly it stops feeling so lonely Out on that road that you had to choose And that's when you know it all was wor..
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Friend Tim shakes hands with Perfect Specimen of Mankind. Will never wash right hand again.
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No one wants to pursue anything creative anymore, because that's too risky. They may not get the kind of return on the financial investment they've made in their education that they think they should.
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Z transatlantickych hovorov ma ide rozhodit, lebo v pozadi pocujem sum oceanu a som cela nervozna, ze nas pocuvaju ryby alebo co.
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Why doesn't the CIA hire your grandmother to interrogate terror suspects? She does a much better job than they do of getting classified information.
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I thought if you wore that, no matter what face you saw every morning in the mirror," he said in his deep voice, "you'll never forget who you really are." My eyes filling with tear, I held my hand out across the tabletop. He grasped my fingers, his grip strong and reassuring. "As if I ever could," I said, my voice clogged with emotion, "with you around to remind me."
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I've dug this grave myself. I guess I have no choice but to lie down in it.
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On those trains you'll be taking across Europe. A book light always comes in handy.
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This year, everything is going to be different. No one in Fischer Hall is going to die this year. Not even accidentally." "How are you going to manage that?" Coop asks, gnawing on a Chinese sparerib. "Bubble wrap all your residents?"
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Is everything all right? Is everything all right? Hmm, hold on a minute, let me see . . . my mom is going out with my Algebra teacher, a subject I'm flunking, by the way; my best friend hates me; I'm fourteen years old and I've never been asked out; I don't have any breasts; and oh, I just found out I'm the princess of Genovia.
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But who wants to hang aroundfrat guys ? I want to be with guys who have more on their minds than where the next keg party is. I want to be with guys who care about making this world a better place--the way Andrew does. I want to be with guys who know that what's important isn't the size of a girl's waistband but the size of her heart--like Andrew. I want to be with guys who are able to see past a girl's outward appearance, and into her soul..
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You're like the little mentally retarded sister I never had
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Write this letter or we'll put you in a home, grandma.
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So I guess I shouldn't have been surprised when I was applying for campus housing and overheard Andy telling my mother that the only way I was going to be safe from all the sexual assaults he'd heard about on National Public Radio was if I lived in an all-girl dorm. Never mind that I have been kicking the butts of the undead since I was in elementary school, and that almost the entire time I resided under Andy's roof, I had a hot undead guy..
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Okay, let me state right now that I am not a coward. I'm really not. But I'm not a fool, either. I think if you recognize that you are up against a force greater than your own, it is perfectly okay to run. It's not okay to leave others behind, though.
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suze-simon
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hope springs eternal, even in the heart of a fat girl.
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Beneath it was a photo of me-my most recent school photo. "Oh, no." My heart filling with dread, I took the paper from Mr. Smith's hands. "Couldn't they have found a better picture?" Mr. Smith looked at me sharply. "Miss Oliviera," he said, his gray eyebrows lowered. "I realize it's all the rage with you young people today to toss off flippant one-liners so you can get your own reality television shows. But I highly doubt MTV will be coming..
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In the meantime, there are all books..." I'd seen his books. Almost all of them had been written before his birth, which had been more than a century and a half before mine. Many of them were books of love poems. He'd tried to read to me from one of them the night before, in order to cheer me up. It hadn't worked. I thought it more polite to say "Thank you, John," than "Do you have any books that aren't about love? And young couples expre..
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Susannah, I love you, but you are the most frustrating woman in the world. For once in your life, don't argue. Just do it.
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What was I thinking, anyway? It would never work out between the two of us. I mean, I'm a mediator. His dad's a vampire. His uncle's a killer. What if we got married? Think how our kids would turn out...
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