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bc41b20 This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need charity; they need justice." Isabel Allende
2564cf5 Scared?" Malfoy muttered, so that Lockhart couldn't hear him. "You wish." said Harry out of the corner of his mouth." harry-potter dueling taunt J.K. Rowling
7c10d92 Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert. J.K. Rowling
fcee1f8 She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues. love military Nicholas Sparks
b7effd9 How many times have I told you not to hit people in the face. You kick them in the body where it doesn't show. Janet Evanovich
213548e The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland. L.M. Montgomery
ca431bc larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life? Nicole Krauss
c8ebefb Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration. witch Paulo Coelho
68f3622 Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives. imagination Paulo Coelho
933d41f Because I wouldn't want to die alone," I said, and my voice wobbled as I looked at Tamlin again, forcing myself to meet his stare. "Because I'd want someone to hold my hand until the end, and awhile after that. That's something everyone deserves, human or faerie." tamilin feyre Sarah J. Maas
f7f51e3 She was still on the fall down. There was no getting up, because there was no bottom. Sarah J. Maas
f6b71d4 He removed her hand from his cheek to kiss the tips of her fingers. "I get scared, too," he murmured onto her skin. "You want to hear something ridiculous? Whenever I'm scared out of my wits, I tell myself: My name is Sam Cortland ... and I will not be afraid. I've been doing it for years." It was her turn to raise her brows. "And that actually works?" He laughed onto her fingers. "Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. But it usually mak.. sam-cortland Sarah J. Maas
c098d8b The truth is a bully we all pretend to like Gregory David Roberts
ce01ac4 Gods, I love it when you talk mathy to me. funny flirty Kresley Cole
6084d7d who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? Virginia Woolf
568052a American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough. Pat Conroy
ea2ad19 Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue. bell hooks
fd46223 The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him. Leo Tolstoy
462ccf6 I don't know that I've ever felt as happy as I did that day, but then again, it was always like that when we were together. I never wanted it to end. Nicholas Sparks
e0af63e The Prince found Buttercup waiting unhappily outside his chamber doors. It's my letter,' she began. 'I cannot make it right.' Come in, come in,' the Prince said gently. 'Maybe we can help you.' She sat down in the same chair as before. 'All right, I'll close my eyes and listen; read to me.' Westley, my passion, my sweet, my only my own. Come back, come back. I shall kill myself otherwise. Yours in torment, Buttercup.' She looked at Humperdi.. love William Goldman
aaa90d7 Love is like the little red toy wagon you get for your Christmas or your sixth birthday. It makes you deliriously happy and you just can't leave it alone. But sooner or later the wheels come off. Then you leave it in a corner and forget it. Falling in love is great. Being in love is a disaster Mario Puzo
125dab0 Love doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt. It just has to be. relationships life love inspirational David Levithan
2ba5195 It's so easy to be easy--if you let it. Charles Bukowski
8a698c5 It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet. Thomas Harris
20b6f8b That's funny, you're funny. I like you, I'm quite taken by you. Gail Carson Levine
1ee2908 You should name him Fezzik." "Inconceivable." Ilona Andrews
79e4100 When I'm with him, I can feel myself getting better. It's like he's picking up broken pieces of me and putting me back together, and I don't even know he's doing it. We never talk about it. We don't go to therapy. He just loves me and that's enough. magic-bleeds ilona-andrews pieces raphael Ilona Andrews
053ac17 For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds. William Shakespeare
3f9e987 And he didn't really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere, because you really have to go somewhere, don't you? Shel Silverstein
9a2dfa8 I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever." Kim Harrison
ce13942 Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? Edgar Allan Poe
4a40c4f October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content." endings happy-endings stories Neil Gaiman
b0995fd I am happy in my prison of passion Oscar Wilde
6f5f337 I dreamed of a green place once," he whispered. "A manor house and a little girl with red hair, and preparations for a wedding. If there are other worlds, then maybe there is one where I was a good brother and a good son." -- Cassandra Clare
fbc170f Because the world isn't divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extraordinary. As long as you have a soul and free will, you can be anything, do anything, choose anything. Cassandra Clare
568a43a Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate." "I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!" "Ragnor is not," Catarina said. "When he found out that you were feeding us guinea pigs, he hit you over the head with your plate. It broke." "So ended our love," Magnus said. "Ah, well. It would have never worked between me and the plate anyway." Cassandra Clare
c85ff47 If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it. faith science philosophy scientific-method Robert A. Heinlein
9e8e658 I thought of my dad telling me that the universe wants to be noticed but what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us as individuals. John Green
a094756 Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one. veronica-roth dystopian Veronica Roth
6f3e356 All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right. tobias-eaton four tobias veronica-roth Veronica Roth
da052ec All this riot and uproar, V... is this Anarchy? Is this the Land of Do-As-You-Please? No. This is only the land of take-what-you-want. Anarchy means "without leaders", not "without order". With anarchy comes an age or ordnung, of true order, which is to say voluntary order... this age of ordung will begin when the mad and incoherent cycle of verwirrung that these bulletins reveal has run its course... This is not anarchy, Eve. This is cha.. fix chaos Alan Moore
354a434 Leo cried, "Hold on! Let's have some manners here. Can I at least find out who has the honor of destroying me?" "I am Cal!" the ox grunted. He looked very proud of himself, like he'd taken a long time to memorize that sentence. "That's short for Calais," the love god said. "Sadly, my brother cannot say words with more than two syllables--" "Pizza! Hockey! Destroy!" Cal offered. "--which includes his own name," the love god finished. "I am C.. Rick Riordan
2d6b5b6 Sometimes, it takes us a while to appreciate something new, something that might change us for the better. Rick Riordan
28e38be You do know how to play pinochle?" Mr. D eyed me suspiciously. "I'm afraid not," I said. "I'm afraid not, sir," he said. "Well," he told me, "it is, along with gladiator fighting and Pac-Man, one of the greatest games ever invented by humans. I would expect all civilized young men to know the rules." -- percy-jackson dionysus gladiator pac-man pinochle Rick Riordan