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ffbc285 Let's go. We're supposed to rendezvous with the Captain at the lake. Oh, and try to keep the noise down. You sound like a panicked moose crashing through the woods," the smarter man chided. "Oh yeah. Like you could hear me over your specially trained 'woodland-animal footsteps,'" Rough Voice countered. "It was like listening to two deer humping each other." Maria V. Snyder
e3993b8 Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived? Stefan Zweig
e8a12d9 EASTER HAS BEEN CANCELED - THEY FOUND THE BODY easter jim-butcher harry-dresden Jim Butcher
1ac81c6 I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers gratitude death life love inspirational oliver-sacks thinking Oliver Sacks
6ff3924 My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection. lovers romance inspiration inspirational-quotes love inspirational psychoanalysis psychiatry psychology Sigmund Freud
2be1e6a We all can be only who we are, no more, no less. kahlan philosophical inspirational Terry Goodkind
ed1faaf Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional. 37-days inspirational-quotes inspirational Patti Smith
d3e8704 When I try, I fail inspirational Corrie ten Boom
593b409 Man jadda wajad inspirational Ahmad Fuadi
8a7055e While we may judge things as good or bad, karma doesn't. It's a simple case of like gets like, the ultimate balancing act, nothing more, nothing less. And if you're deteremined to fix every situation you deem as bad, or difficult, or somehow unsavory, then you rob the person of their own chance to fix it, learn from it, or even grow from it. Some things, no matter how painful, happen for a reason. A reason you or I may not be able to grasp .. inspirational thought-provoking Alyson Noel
6807140 What if she's all I give you in this life of ours, my love?" she asked quietly finnickin isaboe death love inspirational finn Melina Marchetta
31ec5f7 I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge and follow this comment with words of praise, self-acceptance, and love. inspirational don Miguel Ruiz
cba091a Scenery without solace is meaningless. Mitch Albom
7005c84 Live steady. Don't fuck around. Give anything weird a wide berth -- including people. It's not worth it. I learned this the hard way, through brutal overindulgence. ...Back to Chicago; it's never dull out there. You never know exactly what kind of terrible shit is going to come down on you in that town, but you can always count on *something*. Every time I go to Chicago I come away with scars. Hunter S. Thompson
5b01008 I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the hell? Anybody who wanders around the world saying, "Hell yes, I'm from Texas," deserves whatever happens to him." texas Hunter S. Thompson
11c7b64 Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends. understanding time friends friendship reflection Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
5685845 I nodded, wondering how one person could single-handedly ruin everything within a minute. It was a talent. Jennifer L. Armentrout
2e2f11c The little ball went up, then down, then up in his palm. My inner golden retriever couldn't look away. Jennifer L. Armentrout
459143d Daemon was suddenly in front of me. I took an involuntary step back. "Do you think I didn't enjoy kissing you? That I haven't thought about it every second since then? And I know you have. Just admit it." In the pit of my stomach, tight coils thrummed. "What is the point of this?" "Have you?" "Oh, for crap's sake, yes, I have. I do! Do you want me to write it down for you? Send you an e-mail or a text? Will that make you feel better?" Daemo.. onyx jennifer-l-armentrout lux katy-and-daemon katy-swartz Jennifer L. Armentrout
7926133 Katy I always had this plan for the off chance I was around for the end of the world. I'd climb up on my roof top, turn up the radio, blast R.E.M.'s It's The End of The World, and watch it all go down from my lofty perch. Except real life rarely turned out that cool. And it was really happening--it was the end of the world as we knew it, and I sure as hell didn't feel fine. Everything had changed and we had been the catalyst for it all. Jennifer L. Armentrout
8f77422 Sometimes you have to know when to let hope go. Jennifer L. Armentrout
e7f39be In that moment, she reminded me of a fairy princess. Or maybe a cracked-out Tinker Bell Jennifer L. Armentrout
c4a5f5c It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world. Darren Shan
d33e708 Nyx's quasar eyes burned. "Of course not. I would not let my horses eat you, any more than I would let Akhlys kill you. Such fine prizes, I will kill myself!" Annabeth didn't feel particularly witty or courageous, but her instincts told her to take the initiative, or this would be a very short conversation. "Oh, don't kill yourself!" she cried. "We're not scary." The goddess lowered her whip. "What? No, I didn't mean--" "Well, I hope not!.. nyx percy-jackson Rick Riordan
9ac1cb5 We ran, plowing through another pile of peppers. [No, I didn't pick a peck of them, Sadie - just shut up.] Rick Riordan
a4911c4 One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own. John O'Donohue
f5e4eca The heart is the inner face of your life. The human journey strives to make this inner face beautiful. It is here that love gathers within you. Love is absolutely vital for a human life. For love alone can awaken what is divine within you. In love, you grow and come home to your self. When you learn to love and let yourself be loved, you come home to the hearth of your own spirit. You are warm and sheltered. John O'Donohue
1837f33 She is like the wind, open and free. If I cage the wind, would it die? -Then don't cage it, Mikhail. Trust it to stay beside you. die-trust wind Christine Feehan
1a5955c Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces of his. He made her feel as though the world belonged to them- as though it lay before them like an opened frog on a dissecting table, begging to be examined. Arundhati Roy
2f2ec43 Anyway. I'm not allowed to watch TV, although I am allowed to rent documentaries that are approved for me, and I can read anything I want. My favorite book is A Brief History of Time, even though I haven't actually finished it, because the math is incredibly hard and Mom isn't good at helping me. One of my favorite parts is the beginning of the first chapter, where Stephen Hawking tells about a famous scientist who was giving a lecture abou.. Jonathan Safran Foer
9a3347c there are only some many times you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt." Jonathan Safran Foer
65e5b72 People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. life Haruki Murakami
caf4df5 Once you pass a certain age, life becomes nothing more than a process of continual loss. Things that are important to your life begin to slip out of your grasp, one after another, like a come losing teeth. And the only things that come to take their place are worthless imitations. Your physical strength, your hopes, your dreams, your ideals, your convictions, all meaning, or then again, the people you love: one by one, they fade away. Some .. Haruki Murakami
24aeb22 I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you." "Why not me?" war Charles Frazier
4578556 Aslan's instructions always work; there are no exceptions. C.S. Lewis
5e0ed0f The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. books-reading Ray Bradbury
6be8f77 First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. october magical halloween Ray Bradbury
02d5ae2 I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone. Sylvia Plath
e4534bc What is it my dear?" Ah, how can we bear it?" Bear what?" This. For so short a time. How can we sleep this time away?" We can be quiet together, and pretend - since it is only the beginning - that we have all the time in the world." And every day we shall have less. And then none." Would you rather, therefore, have had nothing at all?" No. This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this wi.. A.S. Byatt
bb1ba34 Love. Is it just a word that boys use to manipulate girls? Simone Elkeles
2e1bbc4 Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison. Salman Rushdie
027b640 it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance drinking William Shakespeare
9afb3c1 Steve turned to us again, looking so dang enthusastic that I wondered how much coffee he'd had this morning. "So, you kids want to be big stars, eh?" God, no!" I said spewing crumbs. "No way!" Oddly, this seemed to throw a petite wrench into the convo." James Patterson
1fbff42 Don't let the man bring you down. Maya Angelou