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5ffdf22 I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime. Donald Miller
b156953 What do you do when it rains?" The captain answered frankly. "I get wet." Joseph Heller
d94a351 Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else. Michael Crichton
1d6993f We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. Ray Bradbury
01fad10 God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other. friends friendship influence Ray Bradbury
c5824eb And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die. Sylvia Plath
5402042 There is a charge For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart - It really goes. And there is a charge, a very large charge, For a word or a touch Or a bit of blood Or a piece of my hair or my clothes. Sylvia Plath
e264f40 Are you two you know?" Jacob pointed at us. " " I didn't get a chance to answer. Cam spun me around and kissed me, right there between the two buildings. It was no friendly peck on the lips. When our tongues touched, my bag slipped off my arm and hit the frosted ground. "Holy crap," Jacob muttered. "I think they're going to make babies." cam funny j-lynn jacob jacob-massen jennifer-l-armentrout lol wait-for-you Jennifer L. Armentrout
cade7b7 I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans. Henry Miller
a71efac even if we can't change the big picture, our choices can alter the details. That's how we rebel against destiny, Rick Riordan
b7efc61 It almost made me long for the flying pig. --Percy the-last-olympian Rick Riordan
a76feab Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone's advice, then bother to listen to it. humor life Sophie Kinsella
30251c0 But he also knew that there is an inflationary aspect to love, and that should his mother, or Rose, or any of those who loved him find out about each other, they would not be able to help but feel of lesser value. He knew that also means, , and also, ,and also, . He knew that it is, by love's definition, impossible to love two people. Jonathan Safran Foer
a0200d1 people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure. Milan Kundera
1080a4c Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you should not be afraid of destroying them. That's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries. freedom life limitations Haruki Murakami
4d87d5f Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other. Haruki Murakami
62a85c5 Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess. Haruki Murakami
48e9a2d Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions. common-sense m-m-kaye wisdom M.M. Kaye
bca0548 She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care. Steve Martin
1a5243b Steve Jobs: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Walter Isaacson
86b39dd Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn't care about so that I couldn't lose anything I really loved ever again. disappointment fear-of-commitment love relationships risks the-time-of-my-life Cecelia Ahern
ae63bf5 Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed. William Faulkner
623adb5 I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad. James Joyce
4a5da26 Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself. C.S. Lewis
80ee8ce All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before. C.S. Lewis
9f71dbe Sir, people never wanted me to make it to squire. They won't like it any better if I become a knight. I doubt I'll ever get to command a force larger than, well, just me.' Raoul shook his head. 'You're wrong.' As she started to protest, he raised a hand. 'Hear me out. I have some idea of what you've had to bear to get this far, and it won't get easier. But there are larger issues than your fitness for knighthood, issues that involve lives .. raoul squire Tamora Pierce
a1bac86 There are things that wait for us, patiently, in the dark corridors of our lives. We think we have moved on, put them out of mind, left them to desiccate and shrivel and blow away; but we are wrong. They have been waiting there in the darkness, working out, practicing their most vicious blows, their sharp hard thoughtless punches into the gut, killing time until we came back that way. Neil Gaiman
8c27784 Death's a funny thing. I used to think it was a big, sudden thing, like a huge owl that would swoop down out of the night and carry you off. I don't anymore. I think it's a slow thing. Like a thief who comes to your house day after day, taking a little thing here and a little thing there, and one day you walk round your house and there's nothing there to keep you, nothing to make you want to stay. And then you lie down and shut up forever. .. Neil Gaiman
f09f7e6 Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It's only when its ambitions become too grandiose that it must be opposed, disciplined, sometimes--if necessary--brought down for a time. Then it will rise again, as it must. evil Clive Barker
f31b34c I know there are monsters on this earth,' said Tessa. 'You cannot tell me otherwise. I have seen them. Cassandra Clare
cef5865 He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass. Cassandra Clare
186af4c Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do. goodbye will-herondale Cassandra Clare
695f8af Magnus gave Alec a sidelong look as they climbed the rickety stairs. Alec caught the glance, and his breathing quickened; his blue eyes were bright. Alec bit his lower lip, and Magnus stopped walking. It was only a momentary hesitation. But then Alec reached out and caught his arm, fingers tight above his elbow. 'Magnus', he said in a low voice. magnus-bane malec the-bane-chronicles the-course-of-true-love Cassandra Clare
44a80c7 Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do. the-bluest-eye toni-morrison Toni Morrison
9654b5b What I notice is that every adult or child I give a new set of Crayolas to goes a little funny. The kids smile, get a glazed look on their faces, pour the crayons out, and just look at them for a while....The adults always get the most wonderful kind of sheepish smile on their faces--a mixture of delight and nostalgia and silliness. And they immediately start telling you about all their experiences with Crayolas. Robert Fulghum
d96a3b4 All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one... Stephen King
64449b3 Standing in front of a line up of Lay's potato chips, Qhuinn looked overhead to the speaker inset into the ceiling tiles. Next to him John Matthew signed, qhuinn J.R. Ward
95ffc9e And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking. John Green
521f49a I don't think God gives a shit if we have a dog or if a woman wears shorts. I think He gives a shit whether you're a good person. John Green
ad7fc9c That's absolutely true, about the eight glasses a day. There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water. Most experts agree that unless there's something horribly wrong with you, you should just drink water whenever you're - get this - thirsty. John Green
9570cbe We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...It has no day. august charlatan july june september spring summer F. Scott Fitzgerald
6c02a44 some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be. Judy Blume
9c07446 They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unless you gave. And you had to give without wanting to get. T.H. White
1adc3a2 So, I looked up, and we were in this giant dome like a glass snowball, and Mark said that the amazing white stars were really only holes in the black glass of the dome, and when you went to heaven, the glass broke away, and there was nothing but a whole sheet of star white, which is brighter than anything but doesn't hurt your eyes. It was vast and open and thinly quiet, and I felt so small. Stephen Chbosky