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b2d8798 For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. science Robert M. Pirsig
5bbe9fd A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east. sunset John Steinbeck
abd57bd Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head. They're all the time talkin' about it, but it's jus' in their head. heaven land John Steinbeck
fa0c02e There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,' returned the nephew. 'Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round--apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that--as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long ca.. holidays Charles Dickens
ddec0b4 That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up. Jeffrey Eugenides
5837430 we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I. Truman Capote
27045d2 Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity. Herman Melville
39b1ea4 A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end. money pursuit-of-happiness Albert Camus
e385d72 And you're worried, not because you're headed to meet a houseful of vampires, but because you think those vampires won't approve of you, correct?" "That's right," I answered immediately, hiding my surprise at his casual use of the word. He shook his head. "You're incredible." -- Stephenie Meyer
842ad90 They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea. Cormac McCarthy
e045241 Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull. honesty mask people Salman Rushdie
a8f1e8a What do you say to someone who is not the same and yet completely the same? Stephanie Perkins
f0fd1f7 And I realize ... it's okay. It's okay if St. Clair and I never become more than friends. His friendship alone has strengthened me in a way that no one else's ever has. He swept me from my room and showed me independence. In other words, he was exactly what I needed. I won't forget it. And I certainly don't want to lose it. anna-and-the-french-kiss etienne st-clair Stephanie Perkins
6a5ac0f If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking. Maya Angelou
e07f1c9 It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level. George Orwell
6d91c62 Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper t.. doubts self-doubt writing William Goldman
8445c44 Why fit in when you're born to stand out? Jerry Spinelli
1f8ab98 Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given. David Levithan
aa6de07 You're taking a nap? Come on, Kate, I need you for this fight. Stop lying around." "You must think you're funny." "Just saying, you have to pull your own weight. A hot body and flirting will only get you so far." "Everything I do, I learned from you, boy toy." "Boy toy?" Curran asked. "Would you prefer ?" kate-daniels Ilona Andrews
9029a07 to Foaly) Captain Short's life is in danger, so push the button before I climb that tower and push it with your face! Eoin Colfer
3ce0cb4 Kings are the slaves of history. Leo Tolstoy
a9ae499 Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Anonymous
8493f94 Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die . . . It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. death legacy soul Ray Bradbury
84cab47 Live or die, but don't poison everything. living Saul Bellow
3715ee3 I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists Sylvia Plath
624f83d Forever was something we all took for granted, but the problem with forever was that it really didn't exist. Jennifer L. Armentrout
cb0ae97 I've always avoided confrontation in the past, but this guy was flipping my bitch switch like nothing else. Jennifer L. Armentrout
45447df Shit. I'd felt her up, in my sleep. Jennifer L. Armentrout
cdcbed8 Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again. Alice Munro
31eeae3 Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable. Nick Hornby
f25fa5a But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now. Haruki Murakami
9535e1a I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you. trust Haruki Murakami
3003085 Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him', I wrote with more confidence. 'It can't be done. More important-don't let him try to change you. Diana Gabaldon
c1f7ea3 The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. James Joyce
362d4c9 Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential treatment. In fact, tequila probably has betrayed as many outlaws as has the central nervous system and dissatisfied wives. Tequila, scorpion honey, harsh dew of the doglands, essence of Aztec, crema de cacti; tequila, oily and thermal like the sun in solution; tequila, liquid geometry of passion; Tequila, the buzzard god who copulates in mid.. drinks tequila Tom Robbins
fa7f5b0 You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it. friends pity school schoolmates Christopher Hitchens
ac963b0 Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something. vegetarian vegetarianism Jonathan Safran Foer
e8ea11e CORALINE'S STORY THERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END. dance sossajes Neil Gaiman
2f1808e Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic. Carl Sagan
fcf4bab Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it. It is not selfish to think for oneself. A man who does not think for.. Oscar Wilde
7c9a649 We've been here before, haven't we? Last time you were starving, I gave you my blood. It was a little homoerotic, maybe, but I'm secure in my sexuality. simon-lewis Cassandra Clare
d4585bf Simon: 'You know men. We have delicate egos.' Clary: 'I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate.' Simon: 'No, Jace's is sort of the antiaircraft artillery tank of male egos. Cassandra Clare
257bf21 He strode to the wall and tore aside one of the velvet hangings. "You want to tell me what this is?" he demanded. "It's a door, Jace," said Clary." Cassandra Clare
2c3c470 Tessa, surprising herself, let out a gasp of laughter. Will looked at her, his mouth just beginning to quirk up in a grin. "I must be more amusing than I thought. Which would make me very amusing indeed." Cassandra Clare