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| 511b1d1 | There's a writer for you," he said. "Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing." [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers--because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer--still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It's like actors, who try so pathetically not to .. | descriptions insider people perceptions writers | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| b0e093c | He snatched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast now for his burred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 7e0ce8d | I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life. | Judy Blume | ||
| 881ec25 | What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning? | Judy Blume | ||
| fdef17d | You give me thirty-two inches of folded steel and I'll take on anyone you want." -- Merit" | Chloe Neill | ||
| 50b2311 | He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis) | John Piper | ||
| 347c1ec | He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind. | fantasy kindness | T.H. White | |
| 5beba84 | Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my friend again. And that was enough for me. | sam stephen-chbosky the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 369c59a | My sister was the one who told me where babies come from. My sister was also the one who laughed when I immediately asked her where babies go to. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| ad854ad | Sam tapped her hand on the steering wheel. Patrick held his hand outside the car and made air waves. I just sat between them. After the song finished, I said something. 'I feel infinite.' And Sam and Patrick looked at me like I said the greatest thing they ever heard. Because the song was that great and because we all really paid attention to it. Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent, and we felt young in a good way. I have since boug.. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 7751dbc | I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike | bsc | Ann M. Martin | |
| 72e3eb8 | Dani," Decker said firmly. "Trust me, this is not a dream." "Why is it you men always say trust me before spitting out something completely unpalatable?" she asked, irritation flickering through her. "Vampires aren't supposed to be real. And how come you had to be a cute vampire? You should be a dog. All evil, vile people should look as ugly as they are inside." "We aren't ev--" Decker halted his denial, and then did something she hadn't ye.. | decker | Lynsay Sands | |
| 72983bb | See, you have to marry me. I seem to scare off all the help. | Lynsay Sands | ||
| ad312d0 | When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time. | Francine Pascal | ||
| d015158 | Martin Luther King, Jr.] concluded the learned discourse that came to be known as the 'loving your enemies' sermon this way: 'So this morning, as I look into your eyes and into the eyes of all my brothers in Alabama and all over America and over the world, I say to you,'I love you. I would rather die than hate you.'' Go ahead and reread that. That is hands down the most beautiful, strange, impossible, but most of all radical thing a human b.. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 856690c | If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you? | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 0e09bba | there are four rules for miraculous work creation: Be positive. Send love. Have fun. Kick ass. Amen. | inspirational-life | Marianne Williamson | |
| 4637bc5 | My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 8c19386 | You know what it is you smell on him, Haven? Testosterone. It's leaking out of his pores. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| c9a9837 | Dear Jack, I love you, too. And I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage-- just choose someone you can't live without. For me, that would be you. So if you insist on being traditional . . . Yes. --Ella | jack-travis | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 2c1ef05 | Sometimes a simple question could have a complicated answer. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 4b31f6f | What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting? | John Irving | ||
| 01a4d2c | We are formed by what we desire | John Irving | ||
| 5069e28 | Death, it seems," Garp wrote, "does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic." | John Irving | ||
| f6d4230 | The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view. Costis passed it, and then went back up the stairs to look again. There were only the roofs of the lower part of the palace and the town and the city walls. Beyond those were the hills on the far side of the Tustis Valley and the faded blue sky above them. It wasn't what the king saw that was import.. | eugenides homesickness the-king-of-attolia | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| a4a4257 | Garner knowledge, by any means possible | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 8a63487 | Wars come and go; politics endure. | war | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 8d82dd0 | What is fear but courage's shadow? | jacqueline-carey kushiel-s-avatar | Jacqueline Carey | |
| fdf99f1 | To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors. | Irving Stone | ||
| 5567344 | Though recognition's been delayed by its circuitous construction, now the pattern, long concealed, emerges into view. Is it not fine? Is it not simple, and elegant, and severe? How strange, after the long exacting toil of preparation, it takes only the slightest effort and less thought to send this brief, elaborate amusement on its breathless, hurtling race. The merest touch, no more, and everything falls into place. The pieces can't percei.. | Alan Moore | ||
| a860529 | Power resides where men it resides. No more and no less. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 127e557 | Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 2cf0d85 | When they finally broke apart, Ygritte was flushed. "You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first we'll live." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 0088f6d | Innocent or guilty, a Lannister pays his debts. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| fb5df3e | Looks can be deceiving. | Meg Cabot | ||
| e948c94 | When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well. | William Gibson | ||
| 76d4118 | Usually at least once in a person's childhood we lose an object that at the time is invaluable and irreplaceable to us, although it is worthless to others. Many people remember that lost article for the rest of their lives. Whether it was a lucky pocketknife, a transparent plastic bracelet given to you by your father, a toy you had longed for and never expected to receive, but there it was under the tree on Christmas... it makes no differen.. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| b1427fe | Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect. | Cressida Cowell | ||
| 2b1da81 | Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose. | strategy war | Sun Tzu | |
| 9db0a39 | It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start | life tears | Ron Rash | |
| c1b2956 | Listen to yourself You really expect me to believe that my brother is some kind of pixie with glitter dust and butterfly wings." "Don't be stupid " Rob said mildly. "You have no idea what you're talking about. You're thinking 'Tinker Bell' which is a typical human response to the word faery. The real fey aren't like that at all." | Julie Kagawa | ||
| e8e55e4 | This principle - that your spouse should be capable of becoming your best friend - is a game changer when you address the question of compatibility in a prospective spouse. If you think of marriage largely in terms of erotic love, then compatibility means sexual chemistry and appeal. If you think of marriage largely as a way to move into the kind of social status in life you desire, then compatibility means being part of the desired social .. | love marriage romance | Timothy Keller | |
| 846a52d | I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave | Charles Simic | ||
| 84a2836 | For her, choices were simple; either there was an action she could take to improve the situation, in which case she took it, or there was not, and everything else said on the subject was so much meaningless noise. | Christopher Paolini |