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c07899e The sun has blessed you," Sarita used to say. "Look how he has left his kisses on your face for all to see and be jealous." "The sun loves you more," I said, rubbing my hands over her dry arms, the color of an aged wine gourd, and she laughed. But this is not India and we are not prized for our freckles here. The sun is not allowed to show his love." Libba Bray
5c3b3f7 But you've changed,' I whisper. 'Haven't you?' It is the scorpian's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot. Libba Bray
d5043a8 We're all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they'd like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance. Libba Bray
5410d2b When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear. Libba Bray
4fd8857 The face staring back at me isn't beautiful but she isn't something that would scare the horses, either. Libba Bray
96d3f07 It is a true saying, that what you fear you find. find Jeanette Winterson
2f5dbd3 You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer space, the incredible cold and quiet where your wife and kid wait. Silence, not heaven, would be reward enough. Chuck Palahniuk
2317a2a There's worse that people can steal from you than money. Chuck Palahniuk
16b4587 You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you. Chuck Palahniuk
271a64c After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy. enemy life time Chuck Palahniuk
b4d1b71 The people are immensely likable-- cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted, and unfailingly obliging. Their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water. They have a society that is prosperous, well ordered, and instinctively egalitarian. The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn't get much better than this. Bill Bryson
5db037d 99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us. Bill Bryson
927a4ec When cells are no longer needed, they die with what can only be called great dignity. They take down all the struts and buttresses that hold them together and quietly devour their component parts. The process is known as apoptosis or programmed cell death. Every day billions of your cells die for your benefit and billions of others clean up the mess. Cells can also die violently- for instance, when infected- but mostly they die because they.. Bill Bryson
e20f48f There must be a language that doesn't depend on words. Paulo Coelho
fdf54be To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are. Paulo Coelho
f184510 we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility. human-nature Paulo Coelho
d7dd5e2 Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. "Once upon a time" is how all the best children's stories begin, and "prostitute" is a word for adults. How can I start a book with this apparent contradiction? But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss, let's keep that beginning." Paulo Coelho
3661421 When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love. decide die existence hate hospital insane kill love menthal other pill suicidal Paulo Coelho
21abc81 YOU don't choose your life; it chooses you. There's no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them and carry on. Paulo Coelho
087b2b4 I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be able to meet your expectations, and that you had probably chosen the wrong candidate. At the same time, my heart was telling me that i was being rewarded because i hadn't given up and had fought to the end Paulo Coelho
d32660c And she already has her treasure: it's you. Paulo Coelho
e93de7c But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Paulo Coelho
ac3f6d9 I will never be yours, and you will never be mine; nevertheless, I can honestly say: I love you, I love you, I love you. Paulo Coelho
e139fdb The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about the future, and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity. Paulo Coelho
b25da22 They spent days, nights, weeks, and years talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice. Paulo Coelho
9868b6f Al atravesar un periodo dificil, recuerda: aunque hayas perdido grandes batallas, sobreviviste y estas ahi. Paulo Coelho
c58448f You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love... the love that speaks the Language of the World. the-alchemist Paulo Coelho
5f1ac2b Fashion may renew itself every six months but one thing remains the same: bouncers always wear black. the-winner-stands-alone Paulo Coelho
fefe07f I fell asleep and dreamed that life was only Happiness. I woke and discovered that life was Duty. I did my Duty and discovered that life was Happiness. Paulo Coelho
602746a The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children. less-than-zero parents Bret Easton Ellis
a9f031f to the soul, the most minute details and the most ordinary activities, carried out with mindfulness and art, have an effect far beyond their apparent insignificance. Thomas Moore
3977c85 Night falls; the traveler must pass down village streets, between the houses with yellow- lit windows, and on out into the darkness of the fields. Each alone, they go west or north, towards the mountains. They go on. They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible th.. Ursula K. Le Guin
8552cb3 Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable trust. Ursula K. Le Guin
5cd38e3 She'd... she'd... Well she'd kill him if he was dead. the-assassin-and-the-pirate-lord Sarah J. Maas
a07a8b5 No fair maiden should die alone" he said, putting a hand on hers. "Shall I read to you in your final moments? What story would you like?" Sarah J. Maas
34b9964 Let me give you a bit of advice.' the girl said bitterly, 'from one working girl to another; life isn't easy, no matter where you are. You'll make choices you think are right and then suffer for them.' Those remarkable eyes flickered. 'So if you're going to be miserable, you might as well go to Antica and be miserable in the shadow of the Torre Cesme. Sarah J. Maas
14d167e Why", he asked. "Why did you save her?" She dragged a hand through her hair. A white bandage around her upper arm peeked through her shirt with the movement. He hadn't even been conscious for that wound. He stifled the urge to demand to see it, assess the injury himself--and tug her close against him. "Because that golden-haired witch, Asterin...," Aelin said. "She screamed Manon's name the way I screamed yours." Rowan stilled. His queen ga.. manon-blackbeak pg508 rowan-whitethorn Sarah J. Maas
519eab8 This was not the end. This crack in him, this bottom, was not the end. He had one promise left. Sarah J. Maas
9360b12 And when Aelin lifted her head to survey the cheering crowd, when she smiled, Queen of Terrasen and the Faerie Queen of the West, she burned bright as a star. Sarah J. Maas
82ad611 Inside, inside I had become like that distant sea, relentlessly churning, tossed about by squalls that tore away any sense of where the surface might be. Sarah J. Maas
f8c2035 I think Nesta feels everything-- sees too much; sees and feels it all. And she burns with it. Keeping that wall up helps from being overwhelmed, from caring too greatly. nesta Sarah J. Maas
1793e2a I'm serious," Lucien said as I lifted the glass to my lips, my brows raised. "Remember the last time you ignored my warning?" He poked me in the neck, and I batted his hand away. "I also remember you telling me how witchberries were harmless, and the next thing I knew, I was half-delirious and falling all over myself," I said, recalling the afternoon from a few weeks ago. I'd had hallucinations for hours afterwards, and Lucien had laughed h.. Sarah J. Maas
c1eca24 That girl that had needed to be protected, who had craved stability and comfort . . . she had died Under the Mountain. I had died, and there had been no one to protect me from those horrors before my neck snapped. So I had done it myself. And I would not, could not, yield that part of me that had awoken and transformed Under the Mountain. feyre Sarah J. Maas
2b21a71 There is a better world out there. And I have seen it." Even the Thirteen looked toward her now. "I have seen witch and human and Fae dwell together in peace. And it is not a weakness to do so, but a strength. I have met kings and queens whose love for their kingdoms, their peoples, is so great that the self is secondary. Whose love for their people is so strong that even in the face of unthinkable odds, they do the impossible." Sarah J. Maas