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| ddb9691 | I realized that my eyes were closed and opened them. Augustus was staring at me, his blue eyes closer to me than they'd ever been, and behind them, a crowd of people three deep had sort of circled around us. They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father. I pulled away from Augustus, and he snuck a peck onto my forehead as I stared d.. | John Green | ||
| 848c429 | When was the last good kiss you had? | gus hazel-grace-lancaster john-green hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| 6b69623 | Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel. | John Green | ||
| 5d08aaa | With a sigh, he grabbed hold of his chair and lifted himself out of it, then wrote on the blackboard: How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering? - A.Y. 'I'm going to leave that up for the rest of the semester,' he said. 'Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I don't want us to forget Alaska, and.. | suffering living maze rotten-life labyrinth tradition lost | John Green | |
| bcb2b35 | You are somebody's something, but you are also your you. | turtles-all-the-way-down | John Green | |
| 8123d05 | She didn't understand why it was happening," he said. "I had to tell her she would die. Her social worker said I had to tell her. I had to tell her she would die, so I told her she was going to heaven. She asked if I would be there, and I said that I would not, not yet. But eventually, she said, and I promised that yes, of course, very soon. And I told her that in the meantime we had great family up there that would take care of her. And sh.. | peter-van-houten hazel-grace-lancaster john-green the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| e56a1f6 | You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person, and why. | John Green | ||
| 82f6f28 | And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers. | John Green | ||
| 6baf897 | The Holy Spirit showed me that when I put up walls to keep others out I also wall myself into solitary place of confinement. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 7621b6a | He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 047b952 | For life today in America is based on the premise of ever-widening circles of contact and communication. It involves not only family demands, but community demands, national demands, international demands on the good citizen, through social and cultural pressures, through newspapers, magazines, radio programs, political drives, charitable appeals, and so on. My mind reels in it, What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. It .. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| a59cae4 | I silently told him. he asked. , I said frankly. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 9ece242 | Once upon a time, I tried to have dinner with my best friend, and the apocalypse happened. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 264abf5 | I arched an eyebrow at her. She made an awful sound. "God, you're already Mrs. Sullivan." | Chloe Neill | ||
| f2e853b | Lily," Mom said, "we need to talk." I don't think I'm ruining the surprise by pointing out that nothing good happens when someone starts a speech like that." | Chloe Neill | ||
| bbc7273 | You're thinking about him naked, aren't you?" "Unfortunately." She patted my arm. "And to think--I was actually hesitant about dating him. Oh, and speaking of which. Chaps. Enough said." | Chloe Neill | ||
| 9694c9a | Food that good deserved undisturbed digestion | Chloe Neill | ||
| 530777d | Meanwhile, every corner of this city is laced with memories of us together. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| 9d49af8 | The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is. | kindness christianity treasure god life purpose christ | John Piper | |
| 383bf49 | Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway. | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 4701744 | I don't think things ought to be done because you are to do them. I think they should be done because you to do them. | T.H. White | ||
| 97fc1e8 | About half a mile from the tunnel, Sam stopped the car, and I climbed in back. Patrick played the radio really loud so I could hear it, and as we were approaching the tunnel, I listened to the music and tought about all the things that people have said to me over the past year. I thought about Bill telling me I was special. And my sister saying she loved me. And my mom, too. And even my dad and brother when I was in the hospital. I thought .. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 1596266 | It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things." "Like what?" I asked. My mouth was dry. "I don't know. Like take t.. | personality relationships strength being-yourself being-confident being-in-love being-strong how-to-get-a-girl how-to-get-a-guy nice-guy-syndrome | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 542b103 | I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if she really isn't like what she was at the beginning, I wish she could have just said so. | wishful-thinking | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 2a7d705 | Tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them. | self-worth | James Fenimore Cooper | |
| 89e29e2 | Mr. Sourpuss Pants God I love her Nicholas " Thomas crowed. When he noticed that neither Nicholas nor Inez looked impressed by the words he added quickly "In a totally sister-in-law type fashion of course." | Lynsay Sands | ||
| b3a500d | Que hare ahora con mis labios sin su boca para llenarlos? ?Que hare de mis adoloridos labios? | melancholy | Juan Rulfo | |
| 5189863 | Aquello esta sobre las brasas de la tierra, en la mera boca del infierno. Con decirle que muchos de los que alli se mueren al llegar al infierno regresan por su cobija. | humor hell | Juan Rulfo | |
| 5b1d6db | Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Many of our inner conflicts are rooted in hate. This is why the psychiatrists say, "Love or perish." Hate is too great a burden to bear." | Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| 88af4d7 | Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil. | nonviolence | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| b42091d | Something to remember, that: cats for missiles. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 921a11d | A year ago,' I said, 'you wouldn't have asked this of me.' 'A year ago,' he answered, 'you wouldn't have hesitated to drink.' I crossed to the desk and tossed it down. | sookie-stackhouse werewolf vampire urban-fantasy | Charlaine Harris | |
| fd7fcb4 | How is Eric?' 'Very tightly wound. Plus, a lot of stuff happened that he'll tell you about.' 'Thanks for the warning. I'll go to the house now. You're my favorite breather.' 'Oh. Well ... great.' She hung up. | pam sookie-stackhouse vampires | Charlaine Harris | |
| 020a308 | I love you," Bill said helplessly, as if he wished those magic words would heal me. But he knew they wouldn't. "That's what you all keep saying," I answered. "But it doesn't seem to get me any happier." | sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| 4bd687c | I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| d084c2c | My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn't accept it and kept trying to tell my folks I was reading their body language and was very observant, so I had good reason to imagine I heard people's thoughts. Of course, she couldn't admit I was literally hearing people's thoughts because that just didn't fit into her world. | personality individuality outside-comfort-zone | Charlaine Harris | |
| 3047738 | As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 89ce687 | And since I'm going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy? | svm true-blood sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| 23c2da6 | I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad. | dead-and-gone sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| d48ff7a | The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only way to spread one's influence wide to learn how to go deep. The world we want for ourselves and our children will not emerge from electronic speed but rather from a spiritual stillness that takes root in our souls. Then, and only then, will we create a world that reflects the heart instead of shattering it. | spirit peace technology | Marianne Williamson | |
| 9d945f5 | Dear God, I surrender this relationship to you," means, "Dear God, let me see this person through your eyes." In accepting the Atonement, we are asking to see as God sees, think as God thinks, love as God loves. We are asking for help in seeing someone's innocence." | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 8f0d1b1 | The anthropologist Margaret Mead concluded in 1948, after observing seven different ethnic groups in the Pacific Islands, that different cultures made different forms of female sexual experience seem normal and desirable. The capacity for orgasm in women, she found, is a learned response, which a given culture can help or can fail to help its women to develop. Mead believed that a woman's sexual fulfillment, and the positive meaning of her .. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 20f423e | Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete. | equality feminism beauty body-image cosmetic-surgery diet-industry fashion-industry mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery cosmetics images marketing pornography society culture double-standards magazines sexuality eating-disorders self-esteem aging | Naomi Wolf | |
| 06e49cd | I've never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he's just ruined | romance | Lisa Kleypas |