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ea14601 Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly." Milan Kundera
95a62e4 I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before. Ernest Hemingway
c3fab14 I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know. humor Albert Camus
9d69de6 Angry grizzly bears are going to look tame next to what is waiting for you at home." I snapped the phone shut and placed it in her waiting hand. "I'm done." rage edward-cullen twilight-saga threat Stephenie Meyer
53653d7 I think about you. But I don't say it anymore. lost-love Marguerite Duras
e0a6d9b So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is--other people!" people Jean-Paul Sartre
92b545d Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts. Jean-Paul Sartre
5ba3ca0 People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone. Chuck Palahniuk
990fb8f To love is to lose control. Paulo Coelho
79b3514 You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes. J.D. Salinger
6e8967a May God bless and keep you always, May your wishes all come true, May you always do for others And let others do for you. May you build a ladder to the stars Bob Dylan
f10e495 His debtors always assumed he'd demand their firstborn. Like I'm fucking Rumpelstiltskin? What would Lothaire do with countless squalling babes? Raise them in a kennel? vampire paranormal-romance Kresley Cole
ff3a6b9 Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life. Norton Juster
172161d They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,' he said. relationships women James Salter
d23ec89 Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick? life Markus Zusak
353ad10 Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of other people have read those books before. And listened to those songs. I wonder how they feel tonight. Stephen Chbosky
b629834 Sieges weathered, fight together, friends forever. Maria V. Snyder
45afd0c Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you . They'll put off the moment of murder like another .. samuel-vimes Terry Pratchett
6b8423f Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go. death friendship life love inspirational wwii-fiction tear-jerker holocaust John Boyne
0596f1b Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. inspirational Benjamin Franklin
155fc4e Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world. hope inspirational advice encouragement Alfred Lord Tennyson
3258cd4 That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet. inspirational sky Jandy Nelson
df329b3 Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. Italo Calvino
e102a2a Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them. Haruki Murakami
8bcdbf4 She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted. comfort death life inspirational nice Cecelia Ahern
900ed76 Oh, Adam's sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good! C.S. Lewis
36fe18c I am [in your world].' said Aslan. 'But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there. C.S. Lewis
c5a1e00 Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. Albert Camus
3801e36 Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. Cormac McCarthy
28d00da Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper. Arthur Golden
6c48bf4 The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick. drinking humor Douglas Adams
75b5800 You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it. runner tourist Khaled Hosseini
0e7d19e Are you happy here?" I said at last. He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either." -- richard Donna Tartt
1bab682 Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters! Anne Frank
bc8cd0b This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind. Laurie Halse Anderson
b96629b People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy. James Baldwin
9ee75db Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, .. criticism religion truth Charlotte Brontë
c2f2691 From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success.... I'm just here to cash in. Bill Watterson
568585a The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering. Jonathan Safran Foer
7d50245 Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive. sookie-eric Charlaine Harris
bd026fe To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul. life truth spiritual-development soul Oscar Wilde
fa23f50 We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can't stop pissing on fire hydrants...I am an animal like any other. Hazel is different. she walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. She knows the truth: We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either. Pe.. heroism the-fault-in-our-stars depth hero intimacy John Green
578e209 His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life. tris-prior allegiant-quotes veronica-roth Veronica Roth
8332b30 I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say. (....) He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me. "Say it again." "Tobias," I say, "I love you." family love tobias-and-tris insurgent tobias-eaton four veronica-roth Veronica Roth