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| ce1a135 | That's what I've always found so pathetic about . They weep when they have a live glimpse of you, frame the fork you touched. Yet they're impervious to anything with that inspiration, like enriching their own lives. It drove Stanny-boy crazy. He used to say to me, ' '--it was his nickname for me--' , they see the films five times, write me fan letters, but the underlying meaning is lost on them. They take nothing away. Not heroism. Not c.. | would-be-literary-inspiration | Marisha Pessl | |
| 0797a69 | I saw very little as it truly was. But that was what Martha taught me. We swear we see each other, but all we are ever able to make out is a tiny porthole view of an ocean. We think we remember the past as it was, but our memories are as fantastic and flimsy as dreams. It's so easy to hate the pretty one, worship the genius, love the rock star, trust the good girl. That's never their only story. We are all anthologies. We are each thousands.. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 2f453d0 | Freak the ferocious out. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| d9c3069 | Grab the work when it comes, my man. Your competition is now a fourteen-year-old in pajamas with the username Truth-ninja-12 who believes fact-checking a story is reading his subject's Twitter feed. Be afraid. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 1a5f72b | What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere? | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 0d5a677 | You must be a terrible burden to your mother. I am feeling so sorry for her not to have a proper daughter." Mrs. Apusenja - To the Nines" | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 03b2908 | We want you to break into the Smithsonian." "Always a pleasure," Nick said. Kate raised an eyebrow at Nick. "You've done it before?" Nick shrugged. "Nobody goes to D.C. without visiting the Smithsonian." "Most people go when it's open." "I don't like crowds." -- | smithsonian | Janet Evanovich | |
| 5760910 | Life is about survival of the fittest, and Jersey is producing the master race. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 191bbb6 | I have your gun" I pulled the Ruger out of my bag and gave it to Ranger. He held the gun flat in his hand and looked at it. "It smells like orange blossoms." "I washed it and sprayed it with air freshener" "You washed it?" "I wore rubber gloves and scrubbed it with my vegetable brush. It was.. icky" He yanked open the driver's side door, pulled me out of the car, and kissed me. The kiss involved tongue, and a hand on my ass, and made my nip.. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| f4ee546 | If I could just get Broom to cooperate, we could fly, Glo said. Then we wouldn't have to worry about traffic. Harry Potter didn't have to worry about traffic. You relize Harry Potter isn't real, right? Of course, but he could be. I mean, maybe not Harry Potter, but someone like him. Who's to say? | harry-potter humor | Janet Evanovich | |
| b416e8f | You know what this is?" Lula said. "This here's plane rage." Plane rage isn't allowed. It got taken off the allowed activities list along with eating. If you make a scene they'll hual you off in leg irons." Stephanie said. I'm tired of being stapped in here, too," Lula said. "This seat belt's too tight and it's giving me gas." Anything else?" There's no movie." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 1386d43 | Was a fast easy reading, Good to take your mind off of anything serious for a while | Janet Evanovich | ||
| a092d64 | Did you bring the charms?" Wulf asked Diesel. Diesel took the charms from his pocket and held them in his palm so Wulf could see. "They have an excellent selection of baby carriages at Target," I whispered to Diesel. "Not now," Diesel said. "Get a grip." "Was I bad? DO I need to get punished? Maybe I need a good paddling." Wulf looked like he was thinking about rolling his eyes, and Diesel wrapped an arm around my shoulders and dragged.. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 1999546 | I hate shopping for clothes," Kate said. "I liked when I was in the military and all I needed was camouflage gear." "Shopping can be fun. Especially when it's for a con. It's the first step in creating a character. Isn't there anything you enjoy buying? Lingerie? Shoes? Jewelry?" "Shoes are okay. I don't have to take my clothes off to try them on." "You don't like to take your clothes off?" "It's the lighting in the dressing rooms. It makes.. | janet-evanovich kate-o-hare lee-goldberg nick-fox stating-fact | Janet Evanovich | |
| 2f74613 | I like my nuts," Mooner said. "I don't want them cut off. I'd be, like, nutless then." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| cce968e | Yeah, I'm a thief." "Honey, that's such a turn-on." He reached for her, and she jumped away. "Stand down," Kate said. "My hands are lethal weapons." Nick backed her against the wall and leaned into her. "I've go a better lethal weapon than you do," he said. "Wanna see it?" "No!" Good lord, she could feel his lethal weapon pressing against her belly. It was big and hard. And as much as she hated to admit it, his big, hard weapon was exactly .. | kate-o-hare lee-goldberg lethal-weapon nick-fox | Janet Evanovich | |
| d3319e9 | When Grandma Mazur is talking about the reason for the improved play of her 91-year-old bowling teammate, she said: "She's doing better now that we got her the longer tubing to her oxygen tank." | humorous | Janet Evanovich | |
| bc4f6ae | Amen" Lula said and she made the sign of the cross. "I thought you were Baptist." "Yeah, but we don't got any hand signals for an occasion like this." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 02a4a12 | You sure you don't want to go?" Grandma Mazur asked my mother. "I didn't know Moogey Bues," my mother told her. "I've got better things to do than to go to a viewing of a perfect stranger." "I wouldn't go either," Grandma Mazur said, "but I'm helping Stephanie with this here manhunt. Maybe Kenny Mancuso will show up, and Stephanie will need some extra muscle. I was watching Television, and I saw how you stick your fingers in a person's eyes.. | grandma-mazur humor stephanie-plum stephanie-s-mom sticking-fingers-in-eyes | Janet Evanovich | |
| 914015c | I always know it's Sunday because I wake up feeling apologetic. That's one of the cool things about being a Catholic . . . it's a multifaceted experience. If you lose the faith, chances are you'll keep the guilt, so it isn't as if you've been skunked altogether. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 1e0709a | Be still my heart. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 269a499 | Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 1cb2338 | You only live once--but if you work it right, once is enough. --JOE E. LEWIS | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| bfdd391 | Remember, no matter what life throws at us, we can always bake a cake! | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 1accea2 | Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. --MELODY BEATTIE | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 3cedaeb | tqsym l`ml `hd ly lnth bkl jmy` lmhm tqryb ,ky ytmkn ldhkwr mn tkrys nfshm blkml llbd@ lmtbdl@ | Eduardo Galeano | ||
| 95642ac | Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him - thirsting, hungering, seeking! And the great sinners came closer to Him than the proud intellectuals! Pride swells and inflates the ego; gross sinners are depressed, deflated and empty. They, therefore, have room for God. God prefers a loving sinner to a loveless 'saint'. Love can be trained; pride cannot. The man who thinks that he knows .. | humility intellectuals sinners | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| e54304d | The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| afa47b3 | Those who deny guilt and sin are like the Pharisees of old who thought our Saviour had a "guilt complex" because He accused them of being whited sepulchers--outside clean, inside full of dead men's bones. Those who admit that they are guilty are like the public sinners and the publicans of whom Our Lord said, "Amen, I say to you, that the publicans and the harlots shall go into the Kingdom of God before you" (Matt. 21:31). Those who think t.. | guilt healing | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 6195d82 | Divinely wise souls often infuriate the worldly-wise because they always see things from the Divine point of view. The worldly are willing to let anyone believe in God if he pleases, but only on condition that a belief in God will mean no more than belief in anything else. They will allow God, provided that God does not matter. But taking God seriously is precisely what makes the saint. As St. Teresa put it, "What is not God to me is nothin.. | wisdom | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 2210691 | Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals. | selfishness war | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| ae1de7b | El desarrollo es un viaje con mas naufragos que navegantes. | Eduardo Galeano | ||
| fce6f86 | En alguna pared de Rio de Janeiro, otra mano escribio: "Si los hombres parieran, el aborto seria legal"." | Eduardo Galeano | ||
| 2daf5a9 | There is nothing more orderly than a cemetery. | Eduardo Galeano | ||
| 3fdae95 | Me gusta la gente sentipensante, que no separa la razon del corazon. Que siente y piensa a la vez. | feelings feelings-of-love gente people sentir | Eduardo Galeano | |
| 9561842 | lm 'qtl shkhSan mTlqan, hdh SHyH w lkn bsbb `dm twfr lshj`@ w lwqt, w lys bsbb `dm twfr lrGbh | Eduardo Hughes Galeano | ||
| f2c77cb | nh `Sr lHrb: l 'Hd `lm lnsny@ bqdr m `lmth tlk lmkhlwqh lmtwD`h | Eduardo Hughes Galeano | ||
| a2f549d | Ahora yo no se si vas a poder leer esta carta, pero igual siento como una necesidad de decirte que yo contigo he sido mas feliz de lo que los libros dicen que se puede. Perdoname si tantas veces me anduve quejando por bobadas. Un dia me dijiste que yo tenia cara de mujer a la que siempre se vuelve y yo te espero ahora o cuando sea y donde sea y como sea. Quiero que sepas. | Eduardo Galeano | ||
| 902451d | Here," an old sugar worker told me, "the people have a great love for martyrs--but only after they're dead. Before, there's nothing but complaints." | Eduardo Hughes Galeano | ||
| 19150af | The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors. They all need to go on safari together. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 3094df5 | Men grant and withdraw their love according to their whims, but fear is a hand that rests on their shoulders in a way they can never shake. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| cf791a2 | In one of the earlier Sherlock Holmes mysteries, Arthur Conan Doyle (not yet a Sir) made an observation on logical deduction. When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. There is, however, a specific flaw in that maxim. It assumes people can recognize the difference between what is impossible and what they believe is impossible. | Peter Clines | ||
| 971b736 | As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson. | sherlock-holmes sir-arthur-conan-doyle | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| ead58d3 | Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen. | the-giver | Lois Lowry |