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| fa2e003 | We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up liquor stores, blow up meth labs, give birth to crack babies, commit suicide, or make donkey porn. If Little Timmy had just had more meatloaf, he might not have grown up to fill chest freezers with Cub Scout parts. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 8708727 | Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally... | little-women louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 39d753e | I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands." "They're not empty now." | little-women love romance | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 04671a8 | Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Eowyn! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 043280c | Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its jagged edges. | Herman Melville | ||
| 4334e12 | Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 99f33e0 | I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 4a096e8 | And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt. | inspirational | Jodi Picoult | |
| a9cfd3a | Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You. | loneliness love | Anne Rice | |
| 25c8bb4 | I've called in the oracles and they were communing with the Fates. But you know how they are. I'm sure it'll come back as 'When the sky is green,m and the earth turns black, the Daimons will give you lots of flack. To kill the great awful one you seek, you'll have to find something unique.' Or some bullshit like that. I really hate Oracles. If I wanted to play mind games, I'd buy a Rubik's Cube. (Acheron) I don't know, Ash, you're pretty go.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 85ee4cf | Then what is magic for?" Prince Lir demanded wildly. "What use is wizardry if it cannot save a unicorn?" He gripped the magician's shoulder hard, to keep from falling. Schmedrick did not turn his head. With a touch of sad mockery in his voice, he said, "That's what heroes are for." | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 06e6741 | The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits. | Albert Camus | ||
| b4f322b | The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others | dystopia greed indictment morality nihilistic | Iain M. Banks | |
| 656a3ef | I'm exactly right for you, Bella. It would have been effortless for us -- comfortable, easy as breathing. I was the natural path your life would have taken... If the world was the way it was supposed to be, if there were no monsters and no magic | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| bb8248c | No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever. | marriage | Stephenie Meyer | |
| e8f9ebd | What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them? | new-york-city temptation | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| bb133d1 | And just so you know for the future, I like my double-chocolate chip cookies warm and soft in the middle...and without magnets glued to them." "Me, too. When you decide to bake me some, let me know." | alex brittany carlos carlos-fuentes fuentes kiara kiara-westford perfect-chemistry rules-of-attraction simone-elkeles | Simone Elkeles | |
| e0f87e0 | I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw -- the sky. I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and time time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and said to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who .. | Arthur Miller | ||
| d31f8c5 | Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know. | William Shakespeare | ||
| c580b62 | I say there is no darkness but ignorance. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 424c13e | There's a cough behind me, and I find Cheeseburger staring anxiously at my box. I glare at Amanda, the Arm-Toucher, and pull out an entire sleeve of Thin Mints. "Here you go, Cheeseburger." He looks at me in surprise, but then again, that's how he always looks. "Wow. Thanks Anna." Cheeseburger takes the cookies and lumbers toward the stairwell. Josh is horrified. "Whyareyougivingawaythecookies?" | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 1134284 | Some people are finicky about going to the theater alone, but I'm not. Because when the lights go down, the only relationship left in the room is the one between the movie and me. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 6135a8a | You love him so much it feels like you can't go on without him. You feel like you might die without him. | James Patterson | ||
| a81bff2 | Disappear where?" You know what they say: Curiosity killed the mutant bird kid. But I couldn't help myself." | James Patterson | ||
| 7da8f7d | Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing. | Garth Nix | ||
| 52230b9 | I'm erased. I'm gone. I'm nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl.... And... I see. I hear. But not with eyes and ears. I'm not outside my world anymore, and I'm not really inside it either. The thing is, there's no difference between me and the universe. The boundary is gone. I am it and it is me. I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain. I like that most of all, being rain. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 1c593b7 | Every time my dreams threaten to become reality, something always happens and I end up alone. | dissapointment dreams | Jane Green | |
| 97385b8 | In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. Because sometimes I feel drunk on positivity. Sometimes I feel amazement at the tangle of words and lives, and I want to be a part of that tangle. "Game over," you say, and I don't know which I take more exception to- the fact that you say that it's over, or.. | David Levithan | ||
| 43ccb8c | Gulls wheel through spokes of sunlight over gracious roofs and dowdy thatch, snatching entrails at the marketplace and escaping over cloistered gardens, spike topped walls and treble-bolted doors. Gulls alight on whitewashed gables, creaking pagodas and dung-ripe stables; circle over towers and cavernous bells and over hidden squares where urns of urine sit by covered wells, watched by mule-drivers, mules and wolf-snouted dogs, ignored by h.. | David Mitchell | ||
| c8f29a8 | And suddenly, she longed for a thunderstorm. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 9262972 | To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern - and to t.. | love | Erich Fromm | |
| 2eed698 | Quick, Derek, it's your chance to shine," Ascanio said. Derek gave him a withering look. "Desandra is a mother, Robert is married, Kate's affianced, and I'm an old soul. You're the closest thing to a virgin we've got. Get on with growing some flowing locks." | banter derek humor kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 4c43fa7 | Who snitched?" "We have people monitoring police radio frequencies. They gave Jim a heads-up in case our security had to storm PAD offices and bust you out of there. I found out when I saw Jim walking down the hallway snickering to himself." | ilona-andrews jim kate kate-daniels magic-slays | Ilona Andrews | |
| de450d3 | This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown. | inspirational philosophical romance spiritual | Victor Hugo | |
| 71c8d0f | I am paving hell with energy... I am laying down good intentions which I believe durable as flint. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 7b02631 | It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 4897376 | Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality. | finality goodbye | Daphne du Maurier | |
| ec00387 | Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 25e04f8 | In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. | Voltaire | ||
| e7687f5 | That made me happy. That was my Anchor. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 79c1dd9 | Hell has three hates: lust, anger and greed. | Anonymous | ||
| a7d34c6 | Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning." | death-and-dying | Mitch Albom | |
| c423f50 | Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 609b7cf | Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix -- a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing... And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing yo.. | Hunter S. Thompson |