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46408c3 She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen. Zora Neale Hurston
ff03cf3 The Great Gatsby's my favorite book," he says. "F. Scott Fitzgerald dedicated it to Zelda." "His wife?" I say. "Yeah. His crazy-ass wife who he had no business loving that much," he says, giving me a loaded look. "You know what their joint epitaph says? It's a quote from the book... Their kid picked it for them." I shake my head. "What's it say?" His eyes close halfway as he recites, "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back cea.. Rick Yancey
1f72ce6 They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world. F. Scott Fitzgerald
a598c3a that voice was a deathless song. F. Scott Fitzgerald
8464d70 Not bad for a 'common soldier,' hmm?" I quietly asked, then resheathed my katana and headed back toward the chapel. I could feel his gaze on my back as I walked away, so I decided to play it up. I paused at the sanctuary door, then looked back over my shoulder and smiled vampishly through hooded eyes. "Coming?" Chloe Neill
d81a246 You don't have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing. John Piper
71464f3 Why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't even really know me? Stephen Chbosky
d3b1de2 The perfect song on the perfect drive to make you feel infinite. Stephen Chbosky
9aad89c I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way. I'd do anything to make it up to everyone. And to not have to see a psychiatrist, who explains to me about being "passive aggressive." Stephen Chbosky
1efc621 the juniors were acting different because they are now the seniors. They even had T-shirts made. I don't know who plans these things. Stephen Chbosky
a560fe6 When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. Nobody knows how he got there. Stephen Chbosky
00866a0 Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
314ff2f Okay, why don't we practice your talking with Marguerite? OUT LOUD. I'll be her." Julius stared at him blankly. "Now?" "No, I was thinking maybe next April. Then you could maybe give her a call, arrange a date..." He arched his eyebrow in question, and snapped, "Yes, NOW." julius Lynsay Sands
5b100c9 Pero los caminos de ella eran mas largos que todos los caminos que yo habia andado en mi vida y hasta se me ocurrio que nunca terminaria de quererla. Juan Rulfo
01fe05e The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world ," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free." Martin Luther King Jr.
52ae453 But things don't just fall apart. People break them. Robin Wasserman
cca5366 I am clever enough to know that I am clever. Mervyn Peake
96b5370 Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. wisdom Brian Tracy
6b3f0df Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that--at the moment--I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him. Charlaine Harris
44ce901 When we attach value to things that aren't love--the money, the car, the house, the prestige--we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Marianne Williamson
502fa4b Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city. Richard Peck
59d60c5 I hate you for all the years I 'll have to live without you. How can a heart hurt this much and still go on beating? How can I feel this bad without dying from it? I 've bruised my knees with praying to have you back. None of my prayers have been answered. I tried to send them up to heaven but they 're trapped here on earth, like bobwhites beneath the snow. I try to sleep and it's like I 'm suffocating. Where have you gone? Once you said th.. love-hurts Lisa Kleypas
a81b369 The look of experience suited him, especially because somewhere deep in those eyes, there still lurked a dangerous invitation to play. He had a quality of masculine confidence that was a thousand times more potent than mere handsomeness. Perfect goodlooks could leave you cold, but this kind of sexy charisma went straight to your knees. -Haven Travis handsome hardy sexy Lisa Kleypas
39b859a Aristotle taught that stars are made of a different matter than the four earthly elements-- a quintessence-- that also happens to be what the human psyche is made of. Which is why man's spirit corresponds to the stars. Perhaps that's not a very scientific view, but I do like the idea that there's a little starlight in each of us. human-spirit starlight Lisa Kleypas
20fdc18 Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you." Leo" truth Lisa Kleypas
5e54fb6 It might have been preferable," Eddis admitted, dryly, "if you had thrown off your chains of bondage solely for love of me. It would certainly have been more flattering." Standing so near to him, she was looking up into his face and watching it closely. "I am willing to accept, however, that we are real people, not characters in a play. We do not, all of us, need to be throwing inkwells. If we are compatible with one another, is that not su.. Megan Whalen Turner
b3d23b7 Lilies, I rule, heads, you do," he [the King] said, and threw the coin into the air. "Lilies, you rule, heads, you throw again," said Attolia. The coin dropped. Eugenides looked at it and then showed it to her. "No need," he said. The coin sat in his palm, obverse, showing the lilies of Attolia. He flipped it again and again and again. Each time it landed showing the lilies. ... (Relius) He wanted to dismiss the coin toss as slight of hand.. eugenides relius Megan Whalen Turner
251a4bf Is that what the wine is for? To help you think?" "Oh, the wine. The wine, Costis, is to help hide the truth. It doesn't work. It never has, but I try it every once in a while just in case something in the nature of the wine might have changed." Megan Whalen Turner
7e8894d We are taught to treat a practice sword with all the respect of a real weapon, so no thoughtless mistakes are made" "Oh... In Eddis, we learn to keep tack of the weapon we have in our hand." Megan Whalen Turner
73c204b History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us. Julian Barnes
feb4c4b We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn't hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be? Richard K. Morgan
58f7e6e Culture is like a smog. To live within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be contaminated. Richard K. Morgan
064f0f3 Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe. death gravestone science science-fiction stars universe Clifford D. Simak
45cd67c I also think he is given to disguises...Sometimes he wears spectacles and sometimes he does not. And twice he has worn an extremely peculiar hat. Inside. hat spying suspicious Julia Quinn
51e0a31 Ned was clad in a white linen doublet with the direwolf of Stark on the breast; his black wool cloak was fastened at the collar by his silver hand of office. Black and white and grey, all the shades of truth. George R.R. Martin
27743bf Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes. George R.R. Martin
72e20a0 Life isn't a romance novel. The truth is, the reason romance novels sell so well ---- the reason why everyone loves them ---- is because no one's life is actually like that. Everyone WANTS their life to be like that. Meg Cabot
c2c21f3 Jesse, this is Craig. Craig, Jesse. You two should get along. Jesse's dead, too. mediator meg-cabot suze-simon Meg Cabot
9539345 Have you tried this shrimp? It's freaking amazing. Would you get away from me? I hate you. You're so moody. Just because I kidnapped you and tried to force you to be my girlfriend. I thought you would be over that by now. Meg Cabot
ccc1b51 Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story..." "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise." Cressida Cowell
2e574a0 Aghast, Yasmeen gaped at her before looking to the duke. "It's worse than I thought. Not just the Horde, not just the police- you're keeping company with someone who has principles." rhys-trahaearn yasmeen Meljean Brook
7cc1d02 The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be derived, in the first instance, from the converted spy. Hence it is essential that the converted spy be treated with the utmost liberality. Sun Tzu
f9fde6a Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat. strategy war Sun Tzu
36df218 the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. enemy opportunity strategy war Sun Tzu