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4e35fe1 They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist. Laurell K. Hamilton
fc889db We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; we were created for something much better. Rick Warren
b504c8b Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. education power tyranny Ayn Rand
e661775 I don't kick a man when he's down, unless I'm the one who put him down in the first place. I don't put him down unless he deserves it. And I don't break my word if I give it. So I'll give you my word. Nora Roberts
6f69117 Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time. Umberto Eco
36e5a56 I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck. Annie Dillard
cb15c70 I give her the only honest and true answer I have. "You're where I want to be." love lust Simone Elkeles
ff05d27 Realism can break a writer's heart. realism writing Salman Rushdie
1ac8afc It's not that you have to achieve anything, it's that you have to get away from where you are. Marguerite Duras
9bc7990 You know when you see a gorgeous boy on the street and you say to your friend, "Look at him!" and then your friend makes a face like, ugly? We all have such totally varied tastes that someone is going to look at you and think, yum-yum dee-lish, no matter what you think you look like. You just have to learn to see what they see. " Cecily von Ziegesar
b2a06c2 we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure. Charles Bukowski
ea2cbd8 Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. bogeyman dragon dragons fairy-tales inspirational G.K. Chesterton
03f2c16 Fuck the pack. I gave them fifteen years of my life. I fought for them, bled for them, and the moment my back was turned, they attacked my wife. I owe them nothing. humourous protectiveness Ilona Andrews
746fb30 Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. sorrow Leo Tolstoy
1abedc2 I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right. Charles Bukowski
df980f3 God is an experience of supreme love. Elizabeth Gilbert
075c51a I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man. personal-growth superiority women Arthur Schopenhauer
15be075 lD`yf hw lGb~ ldh~ l y`rf sr qwth Naguib Mahfouz
e4b9a9c It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. With his symbolic helmet numbered .. censorship fire Ray Bradbury
0495130 Don't be scared of Bambi" the demon said. "She's only curious and maybe a little bit hungry." The thing was named ? " Jennifer L. Armentrout
5707dcc If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon? Margaret Atwood
6979822 Often a Christian man or woman falls prey to that cruel and vexatious spirit, wondering how to find marriage, who, when, where? It is on God that we should wait, as a waiter waits--not for but on the customer--alert, watchful, attentive, with no agenda of his own, ready to do whatever is wanted. 'My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.' (Ps. 62:5 KJV) In Him alone lie our security, our confidence, our trust. A spir.. trust waiting wondering Elisabeth Elliot
56c5f82 It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined. Arundhati Roy
e0a72cd When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and get into the forests again, we shall shiver with cold and fright but things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in, and passion will make our bodies taut with power, we shall stamp our feet with new power and old things will fall down, institutions D.H. Lawrence
d332c17 It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life -- and herein lies its secret -- takes place in the immediate proximity of that border, even in direct contact with it; it is not miles away, but a fraction of an inch. Milan Kundera
83e8d2a That's the thing with the young these days, isn't it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile and a tear and a wave. Everyone has learned, found love, seen the error of their ways, discovered the joys of monogamy, or fatherhood, or filial duty, or life itself. In my day, people got shot at the end of films, after learning only that life is hollow, dismal, brutish, and short. Nick Hornby
41485c4 There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees. Haruki Murakami
6e72f17 In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek out a kind of fairness. Of course, that might take time and effort. And maybe it won't seem to be worth all that. It's up to each individual to decide whether or not it is. Haruki Murakami
391ce81 Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true. truth Jodi Picoult
927cc91 Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?" C.S. Lewis
d18ea9f Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant. Gabriel García Márquez
64b138a Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters. Gabriel García Márquez
80decdd I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the way. Obey all orders. Get killed on your own time. fantasy Tamora Pierce
0a30f6a I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped. gaiman neil Neil Gaiman
6e0eb68 Tell him that we fucking reprogrammed reality. Tell him that language is a virus and that religion is an operating system and that prayers are just so much fucking spam. Neil Gaiman
ab4f73e Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset. S.E. Hinton
93331e9 What happens in the demon realms stays in the demon realms," said Jace." Cassandra Clare
0b2e38b Indeed." Will let his cutlery clatter onto his plate. "The Consul? Breaking up our breakfast time? Whatever next? The Inquisitor over for tea? Picnics with the Silent Brothers?" "Duck pies in the park," said Jem under his breath, and he and Will smiled at each other, just a flash, before the door opened and the Consul swept it." will-herondale Cassandra Clare
5664114 And I behold London, a Human awful wonder of God' He (Will) stared out over the landscape. "Milton thought Hell was a city, you know. I think maybe he had it half-right. Perhaps London is just Hell's entrance, and we are th damned souls refusing to pass through, fearing that what we will find on the other side will be worse than the horror we already know." Cassandra Clare
a82b8da he's probably never met a six-foot tall hot elf-women in a fur bikini either. Cassandra Clare
3924fb5 So you speak French?" Isabelle sighed. "I wish I spoke another language. But Hodge never thought we needed to learn anything but ancient Greek and Latin, and nobody speaks those." "I also speak Russian and Italian. And some Romanian," Sebastian said with a modest smile. "I could teach you some phrases-" "Romanian? That's impressive," said Jace. "Not many people speak it." "Do you?" Sebastian asked with interest. "Not really," Jace said .. jace mortal-instruments romanian sebastian Cassandra Clare
976da32 As long as I can dream, I will dream of you. clary-fray dreaming jace love mortal-instruments Cassandra Clare
1b94447 You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar. music Stephen King
bf51d2f Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real. Stephen King