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| e93754a | Even his highly emotional Italian mother didn't believe that true love could blossom overnight. Like his brothers and sisters-in-law, she wanted nothing more for him than to marry and start a family, but if he showed up at her doorstep and said that he'd met someone two days ago and knew she was the one for him, his mother would smack him with a broom, curse in Italian, and drag him to church, sure that he had some serious sins that needed .. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| a0d4eb1 | At Times, even he admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it, and in moments of painful honesty, he sometimes believed he was a failure in all what was important | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 0be23f6 | I know you've only ever known your father and me. And I love Jack, because he is your father. But there's another kind of love, Amanda. One that gives you the courage to be better than you are, not less than you are. One that makes you feel that anything is possible. I want you to know that you could have that. I want you to hold out for it. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 5f24c8b | But wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition, and | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 5409e8a | She knew it was wrong. her life didn't allow for that kind of desire; society didn't condone it, either. She could try to dismiss her feelings as temporary, a by-product of other factors in her life. But she knew that wasn't true. Dawson wasn't some stranger that she happened to rendezvous with; he was he first and only true love, the most enduring of all. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 121f04d | My story can't be summed up in two or three sentences; it can't be packaged into something neat and simple that people would immediately understand. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 118da8a | I suspect that most people harbor a lingering sense of What if I'd followed my heart?, | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 4f9efd6 | provided a road map for how a real man was supposed to lead his life. Get married. Love your wife and treat her with respect. Have children, and teach them the value of hard work. Do your job. Don't complain. Remember that family--unlike most of those people you might meet in life--will always be around. Fix what can be fixed or get rid of it. Be a good neighbor. Love your grandchildren. Do the right thing. Good | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| b629a21 | You've always lived here, right?" Sarah asked. "Except for the years I went to college." "Didn't you ever want to move away? To experience something new?" "Like bistros?" She nudged him playfully with her elbow. "No, not just that. Cities have a vibrancy, a sense of excitement that you can't find in a small town." "I don't doubt it. But to be honest, I've never been interested in things like that. I don't need those things to make me happy... | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3dc568e | Can I have a Happy Meal?" "don't you think you're getting a little old for that?" "I'm only seven, Dad." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 7914d17 | The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this good-bye is both a good-bye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come. When I look at you, I see your beauty and grace and.. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3864912 | You kissed me yes, But it was not just goodnight even then I could feel the promise in it. The promise that you could kiss me like that forever. | kiss nicholas-sparks promise the-longest-ride | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 0840850 | Although you may call me a dreamer, a fool, or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 93af021 | Love requires sacrifice, but it's worth it | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| dd5df18 | Kept talking about how she's studying every holy book she can get her hands on, aiming to understand God's word. I quoted St. Augustine to her. 'If you understand it, it isn't God.' Gave her a cup of chamomile tea. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 60c836b | The day had a strange but comforting feel to it, like a rest between the end of one time and the beginning of another. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 2a4a4d3 | Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least a few people would survive and had wanted them to remember her city and the treasure it held, the treasure that was most valuable of all - herself, her family, and all of the generations of people who had lived in that secret place, their purpose, though they didn't know it, to make sure that human beings did not vanish fr.. | inspirational survival | Jeanne DuPrau | |
| de2eec6 | She started back down the trail. If no dogs find the food, she thought, maybe squirrels will. Or that white bear. Or if no one finds it, then it can all be for God. Only not for the Prophet's God, her mean, picky God who dislikes so many things. It's for my God, the god of dogs and snakes and dust mites and albino bears and Siamese twins, the god of stars and starships and other dimensions, the god who loves everyone and who makes everythin.. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 106647c | Have you the world lately, McGrath? The cruelty, the lack of connection? If you're an artist, I'm sure you can't help but wonder what it's all for. We're living longer, we social network alone with our , and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool, then a thimble of water, then a . | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 746282f | They should really tack that on to the marriage ceremony: 'Do you promise to love, honor, obey me, and also to kill me when I can no longer stand in a shower? | Marisha Pessl | ||
| d5c0beb | The days shuffled by like bland schoolgirls. I didn't notice their individual faces, only their basic uniform: day and night, day and night. I had no patience for showers or balanced meals. I did a lot of lying on floors -- childish certainly, but when one can lie on floors without anyone seeing one, trust me, one will lie on a floor. I discovered, too, the fleeting yet discernible joy of biting into a Whitman's chocolate and throwing the r.. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| a0da770 | It sounds like something out of a night film. Not real life. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 62fdb99 | You'll find that great artists don't love, live, fuck or even die like ordinary people. Because they always have their art. It nourishes them more than any connection to people. Whatever human tragedy befalls them, they're never too gutted, because they need only to pour the tragedy into their vat, stir in the other lurid ingredients, blast it over a fire. What emerges will be even more magnificent than if the tragedy had never occurred. | artists tragedy | Marisha Pessl | |
| 320b0a7 | I remembered what Dad said once, that some people have all of life's answers worked out the day they're born and there's no use trying to teach them anything new. 'They're closed for business even though, somewhat confusingly, their doors open at eleven, Monday through Friday,' Dad said. And the trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain, the hope they'll come to see your side of things, it was exhausting, because it never mad.. | assured father frustrating life life-answers life-s-questions no-use teach | Marisha Pessl | |
| 94986ee | Could something be real when all evidence of it was gone? Was something categorically true if it lived on only in your head, same as your dreams? | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 55afc57 | Dad's romances could last anywhere between a platypus egg incubation (19-21 days) and a squirrel pregnancy (24-45 days). | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 51a19f3 | If all histories have a period known as The Golden Age, somewhere between The Beginning and The End, I suppose those Sundays during Fall Semester at Hannah's were just that, or, to quote one of Dad's treasured characters of cinema, the illustrious Norma Desmond as she recalled the lost era of silent film: "We didn't need dialogue. We had faces." | Marisha Pessl | ||
| e91b123 | She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain. She was always demanding of herself, Do I dare? Do I dare disturb the universe? From Prufrock. Her dad revered the poem, I guess, and the entire family lived in answer to it. They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring .. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| efbe14e | the Boston Tea Party was the work of 1777-era frat boys) | Marisha Pessl | ||
| efef80e | Love? Dopamine released in the brain, which gets depleted over time, leaving contempt. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| f57563b | Everyone has a Cordova story, whether they like it or not. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| f735dac | The shelf life of any great love is fifteen years. After that you need a serious preservative, which can seriously harm your health. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 758d544 | Magic was all fun and games until you had the H-bomb of spell materials on the bottom of your shoes. | night-film witchcraft | Marisha Pessl | |
| a91792b | He smiled when he saw me . . . and it was the nice smile that included his eyes. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 47b9c1b | And then it gets so hot that they keep the supermarkets too cold. Hot, cold. Hot, cold. It gives me the runs." Mr. Landowsky" | Janet Evanovich | ||
| a907e7d | Connie drove a silver Camry with rosary beads hanging from her rearview mirror and a Smith& Wesson stuck under the seat. No matter whatwent down, Connie was covered. | preparedness | Janet Evanovich | |
| 1e40e57 | So you need an alarm system because you gonna be in bad neighborhoods?" "Actually, I sort of stole a car, and I'm afraid the owner will try to get it back." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| e7a253f | We gotta be professional about this," Lula said, aiming us toward Route 1. "We need a plan. How about we get the nail polish first, then we get the guy?" | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 8ff0493 | I think I got a bruise from landing on you. I hear bacon is real good for healing a bruise. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| e0a6ddb | Men!" "At least we don't fake it." "Listen, it was your uncle. And we were late, remember? So I made the sacrifice and got us there in time for dessert. You should be thanking me." Morelli's mouth was open slightly and his face was registering a mixture of astonished disbelief and wounded, pissed-off male pride. Okay, it wasn't that much of a sacrifice at the time, and I knew he shouldn't be thanking me, but give me a break here... this was.. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| f81953a | Eleanor Krautz pushed her way through the crowd and stage-whispered to Grandma, "Who's the hottie with your granddaughter?" "That's Ranger," Grandma stage-whispered back at Eleanor. "I don't think Stephanie knows what to do with him." "I'd know what to do with him," Eleanor said. "Jeez Louise," I said. "We can hear this conversation." Ranger looked down at me. "I could make suggestions if you're really in the dark." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| d0d44ee | No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| ba963d6 | Babe," Ranger said, "you need to make some decisions." "I made decisions. I'm just having a hard time sticking to them." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| d0d01bc | Mr. Landowsky was eighty-two and somehow his chest had shrunk over the years, and now he was forced to hike his pants up under his armpits. "Oi," he said. "This heat! I can't breathe. Somebody should do something." I assumed he was talking about God. "That weatherman on the morning news. He should be shot. How can I go out in weather like this? And then when it gets so hot they keep the supermarkets too cold. Hot, cold. Hot, cold. It give.. | Janet Evanovich |