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d18c930 Sorry, it's such a mess." He shoves his hands into his pockets. "I cleared off the bed, though, and the sheets are clean." My eyebrows practically hit my hairline. "To sit on." His accusation is made jokingly, but his skin turns melon pink. "Nice shoes, by the way." I'm wearing flats. "Nice deflection, by the way." Stephanie Perkins
a0da5f0 Some kinds of misery make you hate the world, but some kinds make you hate yourself, Stephanie Perkins
c59cb13 Thanks to Josh, I am taking risks. I've learned that if I never leave those areas of my life that feel comfortable, I'll never have a chance at a greater happiness. Stephanie Perkins
f127a53 The senses have their limits, and we can never know how short they fall in revealing to us the truth of a vision, a scent, a sound. Stephanie Perkins
fa2c99c Zeke doesn't talk," said Lena. "Why not?" asked Arlo. Lena shrugged. "He never said." She pointed to the front of the crowd. "Brice is about to start." -- Stephanie Perkins
125252f Habia una vez, una chica que hablaba con la luna. Y ella era misteriosa y perfecta, de la forma en que lo son las chicas que hablan con la luna. En la casa de al lado, vivia un chico. Y el chico observaba a la chica volverse mas y mas perfecta, y mas y mas hermosa con cada ano que pasaba. El la veia observar la luna. Y comenzo a preguntarse si la luna le ayudaria a desentranar el misterio de la hermosa chica. Asi que el chico miro hacia el .. Stephanie Perkins
c2a82a6 Cricket: I love you. I didn't say it so you'd say it back. Please don't say it if you don't mean it. I can wait. Lola: Cricket Bell, I have been in love with you for my entire life. Stephanie Perkins
29c55b0 Lola: You know that thing you said about someone being perfect for someone else? Cricket: Yeah? Lola: I think you're perfect, too. Perfect for me. And ... you look amazing tonight. You always do. Cricket: Did I black out? Because I've daydreamed those words a thousand times, but I never thought you'd actually say them. Stephanie Perkins
a8aadb7 Makani peered over her grandmother's shoulder and out the large window that looked across their front lawn. She scanned the yards for the boogeyman, the Babadook, Ted Bundy. The street was empty. Stephanie Perkins
5f966c4 Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough. Stephanie Perkins
259472f Mademoiselle Oliphant. It translates to 'Point zero of the roads of France.' In other words, it's the point from which all other distances in France are measured." St. Clair clears his throat. "It's the beginning of everything." I look back up. He's smiling. "Welcome to Paris, Anna. I'm glad you've come." Stephanie Perkins
9706182 North whipped around to stare at her. For a moment, his expression was ureadable. And then... he smiled. It was warm-unexpectedly warm-and it made Marigold feel the teensiest bit calmer. Stephanie Perkins
dd7dc29 and I've clearly freaked you out, and I'm totally mortified, and now I'm going to stop talking," she said. And now I'm going to die." Stephanie Perkins
62f6b59 You know what's the strangest thing about tonight? Tonight, being an astoundingly strange night?" "What's that?" "That you still don't realize I'm willing to do anything, anything"--he gestured in a full circle around them--"to stay in your company. You don't need to pay me." Stephanie Perkins
bec515f He punished the naughty and rewarded the nice. Just like someone else who wore a lot of red. Scramble the letters in S-A-N-T-A and you get S-A-T-A-N. Stephanie Perkins
09c4278 Summoning those memories was like touching a burning pot. She could do it only briefly before she had to pull away. Stephanie Perkins
6ecc8e3 Shame leads to secrets, and secrets lead to lies, and lies ruin everything. Especially friendships. Stephanie Perkins
56a4e3b The door opens with a rusted jingle, and an animatronic Santa insults my moral virtue three times. Ho, ho, ho. Stephanie Perkins
faf3927 There were no glimmering moments where their looks hooked on to each other and grew hot, and no catching sight of one of the boys in a ray of sun and thinking, I wonder what his skin tastes like. Stephanie Perkins
893d845 Por que no nos fijamos en las personas adecuadas? ?Por que la gente tiene tanto miedo a romper una relacion, aunque no sea buena? Stephanie Perkins
9c244d9 And then we're laughing. And then I'm in his arms, and we're kissing, st first quickly - to make up for lost time -- and then slowly, because we have all the time in the world. And his lips are soft and honey sweet, and the careful, passionate way he moves them against my own says that he savors the way I taste, too. And in between kisses, I tell him I love him. Again and again and again. Stephanie Perkins
75839b1 This restless searching is what's behind the 'me-first' attitude that has characterized recent decades, and it's affecting everyone, from Wall Street to street gangs." She" James Redfield
04b19a9 because blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility. James Redfield
df84897 It is not just about being thankful, it is to make eating a holy experience, so the energy from the food can enter your body. James Redfield
ffa3839 What we don't realize is that this sense of feeling better costs the other person. It is their energy that we have stolen. Most people go through their lives in a constant hunt for someone else's energy. James Redfield
4105a29 We're already living in the information age. Everyone will have to educate themselves the best they can, become an expert in some niche, so that they can be in the right place to advise someone else or perform some other service. The more technical the automation becomes, and the more quickly the world changes, the more we need information from just the right person arriving in our lives at just the right time. You don't need a formal educa.. James Redfield
2f02b67 We're cutting corners, maximizing short-term profits James Redfield
f686f2b why humans treat each other so violently. We've always known that this violence comes from the urge humans feel to control and dominate one another, but only recently have we studied this phenomenon from the inside, from the point of view of the individual's consciousness. We have asked what happens inside a human being that makes him want to control someone else. We have found that when an individual walks up to another person and engages .. James Redfield
2739241 Only individual opinions are fixed and dogmatic. James Redfield
5f57b4d That humans are stuck in a kind of competition for each other's energy. When we can get others to acquiesce to our view, they identify with us and that pulls their energy into us and we feel stronger. James Redfield
8d99727 With that, everything was suddenly thrown into greater relief, a kind of super three-dimensionality that enhanced the presence and realness of everything in my perceptual field, from the small insects close to my face all the way to the galaxy of stars behind the moon. I was looking at everything from the larger perspective of the entire Universe. James Redfield
c391f84 Fear lowers one's vibration tremendously. James Redfield
e0a0653 The problem was that our focused, obsessive drive to conquer nature and make ourselves more comfortable had left the natural systems of the planet polluted and on the verge of collapse. We James Redfield
69ac7b2 Working to establish a more comfortable style of survival has grown to feel complete in and of itself as a reason to live, and we've gradually, methodically, forgotten our original question ... We've forgotten that we still don't know what we're surviving for.' Out James Redfield
b30c500 After a while, the conversations became almost cordial. James Redfield
d4afadf When you fully integrate this view of your life, you will have achieved what the Manuscript calls a clear awareness of your spiritual path. According to the Manuscript we all must spend as much time as necessary going through this process of clearing our past. Most of us have a control drama we have to transcend but once we do, we can comprehend the higher meaning for why we were born to our particular parents, and what all the twists and t.. James Redfield
1694b04 that horrible acts are caused, in part, by our very tendency to assume that some people are naturally evil. James Redfield
bd00f90 In the Christian tradition, for example, the only model for faith is Jesus of Nazareth. His proclamation, one observes in the New Testament, was not particularly religious: he spoke of God, certainly, but only in relation to ordinary human life with its quotidian struggle and suffering. Nor did he speak or preach in especially religious or secretarian terms; in fact, it maybe be said that Jesus came to set the world free from enslavement to.. Donald Spoto
e377144 Centuries later, it is often presumed that such a pious tone and environment would create boredom, cynicism, and even open rebellion among any militia. But in an era when faith was a fact of life, prayer was ubiquitous, ritual respected, and the presence of clergymen taken seriously, the result was a fresh discipline and respect - even a chivalric courtliness - among many of the troops. Joan herself was so obviously and sincerely devout tha.. Donald Spoto
4230404 getting six woman to agree on something is like getting Dr. Laura to agree with Howard Stern. Laura Jensen Walker
442ec25 He's wearing a dog tag. His name is Henry Webb. His unit is called BLM." "What does it mean?" "Black Like Me. A solidarity movement, I suppose." James Patterson
a6a505f I had questioned God. I had thought that I was so special, I could hold God to account. And why? I had never been promised, ever, that life would be safe and have a happy ending for myself and those I knew and loved, if only I had faith in Him. A James Patterson
3e87b7a You know. "I only know that I've lost my faith in You." The "voice" resonated in my mind. I haven't lost mine in you." James Patterson
8602d8c A small, weak part that just wanted to be a little girl again, with a family that wasn't sick and broken. But that sure wasn't going to happen, was it? James Patterson