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27458e2 A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship. friendship loneliness J. R. R. Tolkien
40998ca A box without hinges, key, or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid. riddle J.R.R. Tolkien
f756327 I want you, and I want you forever. One lifetime is simply not enough for me. breaking-dawn twilight-quote Stephenie Meyer
bece361 Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we personally are needed. Others would meet the case equally well, if not better. To all mankind they were addressed, those cries for help still ringing in our ears! But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one t.. identity Samuel Beckett
4580041 It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object. heart love Nathaniel Hawthorne
d647be2 Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom." prayer spirituality Anne Lamott
6ffc711 I've lived out my melancholy youth. I don't give a fuck anymore what's behind me, or what's ahead of me. I'm healthy. Incurably healthy. No sorrows, no regrets. No past, no future. The present is enough for me. Day by day. Today! Henry Miller
7a8b94e He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful." ... Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important." last-words Mario Puzo
17c3b75 Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you love-hurts Cecily von Ziegesar
828d999 Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff." David Mitchell
03e39e7 I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes. nature restless restlessness Charlotte Brontë
64a37c6 Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me." "Do you mean you want a secretary or something?" "No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool." humor marriage proposal relationships Daphne du Maurier
7c6f3db The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. Elizabeth Gilbert
8ee7543 Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others. inspirational life-lessons things-to-do-before-death Mitch Albom
d0c85c1 I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets. Jeannette Walls
d306d04 I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that. live-life Ray Bradbury
a0a87a6 When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you. Nora Ephron
1832b8a If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. anticipation friend happy visit Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
ed168db It's the way he had a cup of tea waiting for me when I woke up. It's the way he turned on his laptop especially for me to look up all my Internet horoscopes and helped me choose the best one. He knows all the crappy, embarrassing bits about me that I normally try to hide from any man for as long as possible... and he loves me anyway. Sophie Kinsella
f14189e Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes. Margaret Atwood
b5e0f36 You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go. despair fingernails manicure nails Ian McEwan
fde0417 Always winter but never Christmas. C.S. Lewis
46eb3ad Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it? Ken Kesey
0c70c42 To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. Tom Robbins
be27ee1 You are a terrifying creature," the Voice told her solemnly. "You do not take your place in your father's tent, letting men make your decisions for you. You ride as a man, you fight as a man, and you think as a man --" "I think as a human being," she retorted hotly. "Men don't think any differently from women -- they just make more fuss about being able to." Tamora Pierce
bd85c09 I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats. Bram Stoker
5d0fd3f Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete. Sara Zarr
3e9d9ac I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids. humor parents Stephen King
8fd5f6f In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy. Arthur C. Clarke
4551ddf If drunk were cookies, I'd be Famous Amos John Green
8236f08 Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go. F. Scott Fitzgerald
3a4c945 When people dis fantasy--mainstream readers and SF readers alike--they are almost always talking about one sub-genre of fantastic literature. They are talking about , and Tolkien's innumerable heirs. Call it 'epic', or 'high', or 'genre' fantasy, this is what fantasy has come to mean. Which is misleading as well as unfortunate. Tolkien is the wen on the arse of fantasy literature. His oeuvre is massive and contagious--you can't ignore it, .. clichés fantasy-fiction j-r-r-tolkien literature China Miéville
d1d57f9 Who am I, that you should love me?" "You are My Queen," said Eugenides. She sat perfectly still, looking at him without moving as his words dropped like water into dry earth. "Do you believe me?" he asked. "Yes," she answered. "Do you love me?" "Yes." "I love you." And she believed him." Megan Whalen Turner
2e5450a Desperation can make a person do surprising things. surprise Veronica Roth
9876c2a Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them. inoffensiveness politeness Diane Setterfield
cc913ed You were already in a prison. You've been in a prison all your life. Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all. Your lover lived in the penitentiary that we are all born into, and was forced to rake the dregs of that world for his living. He knew affection and tenderness but only briefly. Eventually, one of the other inmates stabbed him with a cutlass and he drowned upon his own blood. Is that it, Evey? Is t.. Alan Moore
b76b8c3 Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining. freedom rights Alan Moore
9d49e5b The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves. Anaïs Nin
71458c1 OPEN WITH CARE. TRIPPLE G RANCH IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR PROPERTY DAMAGE, MAIMING, OR EXCRUCIATINGLY PAINFUL DEATHS. Rick Riordan
8a2cd61 I seriously needed an extra-strength magic pillow, because my ba refused to stay put. [And no, Sadie, I don't think wrapping my head in duct tape would've worked either.] Rick Riordan
c94d82d Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?" Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his words turning the question into something like a compliment. "No" I say, glad to be annoyed back into the present. "Tell me." "I can't." hideous-beauty love romance Holly Black
d5a4a3a Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to. Holly Black
68a344f I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision. Allen Ginsberg
543d54e Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough. Terry Pratchett