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92e6066 Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted. Isabel Allende
3bf3393 Mi Popo decia que el amor nos vuelve buenos. No importa a quien amemos, tampoco importa ser correspondidos o si la relacion es duradera. Basta la experiencia de amar, eso nos transforma. Isabel Allende
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527fbe0 You only have one life, but if you live it well, that's enough. The only reality is now, today. What are you waiting for to be happy? Isabel Allende
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ad5c8ce It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing strong women like you and me humiliated. They cannot forgive us that we triumphed where so many others fail...Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat and destroy us. Isabel Allende
4513f0e I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory. Yann Martel
7a1bcf2 I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek. Yann Martel
2e099b7 know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. Yann Martel
0a26201 A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real. Yann Martel
f2b1816 The Hallows, the Hallows. A desperate man's dream! J.K. Rowling
c3b09bb Ginny, listen . . . I can't be involved with you anymore. We've got to stop seeing each other. We can't be together." "It's for some stupid, noble reason, isn't it?" humor noble J.K. Rowling
978c426 A chilly breeze that seemed to emanate from the heart of the forest lifted the hair at Harry's brow. He knew that they would not tell him to go, that it would have to be his decision. "You'll stay with me?" "Until the very end," said James." J.K. Rowling
d6ddaf2 You mean the won't print it because Fudge won't let them," said Hermione irritably. Rita gave Hermione a long, hard look. Then, leaning forward across the table toward her, she said in a businesslike tone, "All right, Fudge is leaning on the Prophet, but it comes to the same thing. They won't print a story that shows Harry in a good light. Nobody wants to read it. It's against the public mood. This last Azkaban breakout has got people qui.. J. K. Rowling
1a545aa That old berk," muttered Aberforth, taking another swig of mead. "Thought the sun shone out of my brother's every orifice, he did." J.K. Rowling
e212d9d SCORPIUS: The what? The where? Look, I am as excited as you are to be a rebel for the first time in my life -- yay -- train roof -- fun -- but now -- oh. J.K. Rowling
4e3195c Fats was starting to think that if you flipped every bit of received wisdom on its head you would have the truth. He wanted to journey through dark labyrinths and wrestle with the strangeness that lurked within; he wanted to crack open piety and expose hypocrisy; he wanted to break taboos and squeeze wisdom from their bloody hearts; he wanted to achieve a state of amoral grace, and be baptised backwards into ignorance and simplicity. wisdom J.K. Rowling
6c5ae78 Imperio!" Moody jerked his wand, and the spider rose onto two of its hind legs and went into what was unmistakably a tap dance. Everyone was laughing -- everyone except Moody. "Think it's funny, do you?" he growled. "You'd like it, would you, if I did it to you?" The laughter died away almost instantly." mad-eye-moody spells spiders tap-dance J.K. Rowling
f58558a Training for the ballet, Potter?" yelled Malfoy." J.K. Rowling
840c65a He didn't know what he was going to -- but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind. J.K. Rowling
2fb1a5f The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister. J.K. Rowling
078d656 Where do vanished objects go?" "Into nonbeing, which is to say, everything," replied Professor McGonagall. "Nicely phrased," replied the eagle door knocker, and the door swung open." J.K. Rowling
d22ed1d He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everything he had seen that night seemed to fall in upon him as Mrs. Weasley held him to her. His mother's face, his father's voice, the sight of Cedric, dead on the ground all started spinning in his head until he could hardly bear it, until he was screwing up his face against the howl of misery fighting to get out of him. J.K. Rowling
517a91c They don't need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they're trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks - Lupin J.K. Rowling
8ccb2b2 Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're thinking. It is like being in a room with a one-way mirror in a spy film. Mark Haddon
c6037e0 He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory where Uncle Terry works. The factory is a bakery and he operates the slicing machines. And sometimes a slicer is not working fast enough but the bread keeps coming and there is a blockage. I sometimes think of my mind as a machine, but not always as a bread-slicing machine. It makes it easier to explain to other p.. Mark Haddon
4b7e0b2 It was just a normal day, a day like any other. But most of all it was a day in which everything was exactly the way it should be. Nicholas Sparks
107ef07 I love you, Katie. You might not be ready to say those words now, and maybe you'll never be able to say them, but that doesn't change how I feel about you. Nicholas Sparks
9e2e92c That life isn't fair?" Yeah, that, of course. But I also learned that it's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief... lessens." Nicholas Sparks
5c04c07 Just an ordinary in a world that loves the extra ordinary. Nicholas Sparks
593e1b3 Life doesn't often turn out the way we think it will, does it? nicholas sparks
8369d94 You were spying on us?" "It was kind of hard not to. You were right there by the workshop with Will. it looked like he was practically squishing you to death." "He wasn't," Ronnie assured him. "I'm just saying how it looked." She smiled. You'll understand when you're a little older." Nicholas Sparks
8604300 Doesn't surprise me," Nana snorted. "I wouldn't put anything past your late husband." "He's not dead, Nana." Nana sighed. "Hope springs eternal." Nicholas Sparks
ab17cf3 I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles. heathcliff longing wal-mart wuthering-heights Marisha Pessl
f8caf50 He reached out, opened the glove compartment, and took out a gun. It was a Smith & Wesson .38 five-shot special. It looked a lot like my gun. "I stopped by your apartment this morning and picked this up for you," Ranger said. "I found it in the cookie jar." "Tough guys always keep their gun in the cookie jar." "Name one." "Rockford." Ranger grinned. "I stand corrected." Janet Evanovich
c57911f Stephanie] "This won't be so bad," I said to her, making an effort at convincing myself. "How about your blanket? We could wrap him up in the blanket. Then we could pick him up without actually touching him." "I suppose that'd be all right," Lula said. "We could give it a try" I spread the blanket on the ground beside Elliot Harp, took a deep breath, hooked my fingers around his belt and rolled him onto the blanket. I jumped back, squeeze.. stephanie-plum Janet Evanovich
6ac86fd Ranger declined the butterscotch pudding, not wanting to disrupt the consistency of his blood sugar level. I had two puddings and coffee, choosing to keep my pancreas at peak performance. Use it or lose it is my philosophy. Janet Evanovich
6c811ca Joe" I said. "It's Stephanie." "Does this involve death?" "Not yet." "Does this involve sex?" "Not yet." "I can't imagine why else you'd be calling me." stephanie Janet Evanovich
87857d7 I pulled into the Grand Union parking lot and drove to the end of the mall where the bank was located. I parked at a safe distance from other cars, exited the BMW, and set the alarm. You want me to stay with the car in case someone's riding around with a bomb in his backseat looking for a place to put it?" Lula asked. janet evanovich
4834f29 Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right. p364 tolerance wisdom Fulton J. Sheen
2281e22 Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others. Lois Lowry
89508a3 He said that there were no traces upon the ground round the body. He did not observe any. but I did - some little distance off, but fresh and clear" "Footprints?" "A man's or a woman's?" Dr. Mortimer looked strangely at us for an instant, and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered: "Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of s gigantic hound!" -- Arthur Conan Doyle
0bfd736 I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. laziness london watson Arthur Conan Doyle
7acce7e Perhaps sex isn't of the body at all. Perhaps it is a function of language. Zadie Smith