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e374f28 In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. Douglas Adams
560b6bc He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced." universe madness Douglas Adams
e43a518 She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted. truth foolishness psychology Jeffery Deaver
a1a0222 I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought - that someone would affect you so deeply they'd always be a part of you. Jodi Picoult
fbdd8b6 It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it. Thomas Sowell
5e9d8e4 I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet food france Gordon Korman
86dc7d9 For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man. plato fear-of-death Plato
2b5c963 A bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. "You want to be careful with those," Ron warned Harry. "When they say every flavor, they mean every flavor - you know, you get all the ordinary ones like chocolate and peppermint and marmalade, but then you can get spinach and liver and tripe. George reckons he had a booger-flavored one once." Ron picked up a green bean, looked at it carefully, and bit into a corner. "Bleaaargh - see? Sprouts." J.K. Rowling
038b9ad Harry, we saw Uranus up close!" said Ron, still giggling feebly. "Get it, Harry? We saw Uranus -- ha ha ha --" J.K. Rowling
f1f20e8 I hope there's pudding! J.K. Rowling
494a9f9 A lie is when you say something happened which didn't happen. But there is only ever one thing which happened at a particular time and a particular place. And there are an infinite number of things which didn't happen at that time and that place. And if I think about something which didn't happen I start thinking about all the other things which didn't happen. For example, this morning for breakfast I had Ready Brek and some hot raspberry m.. Mark Haddon
9fd361f Friends come and go, clothing is packed and unpacked, households are continually purged of unnecessary items, and as a result, not much sticks. it's hard at times but it makes a kid strongs in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitably take their place; that every place has something good and bad to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast. Nicholas Sparks
ec02562 That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place." -Jo" Nicholas Sparks
8c4bd1b Oh, I've a love, a true, true love, who waits upon yon shore... and if my love won't be my love, then I will live no more... Libba Bray
6c2358c You can't blame a fella for kissing the prettiest girl in New York, can you, sister?" Sam's grin was anything but apologetic. Evie brought up her knee quickly and decisively, and he dropped to the floor like a grain sack. "You can't blame a girl for her quick reflexes now, can you, pal?" Libba Bray
da777ff It's all circling around the same problem of personal liberties," Walter said. "People came to this country for either money or freedom. If you don't have money, you cling to your freedoms all the more angrily. Even if smoking kills you, even if you can't afford to feed your kids, even if your kids are getting shot down by maniacs with assault rifles. You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up.. Jonathan Franzen
36aa682 music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of music they listen to. Paulo Coelho
849b7a4 Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destructive energy leaking out of her body. She allowed the feeling to emerge, regardless of whether it was good or bad; she was sick of self-control, of masks, of appropriate behavior. Veronika wanted to spend her remaining two or three days of life behaving as inappropriately as she could. hatred Paulo Coelho
108d81e I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure quote treasure inspirational insistence the-alchemist adventure Paulo Coelho
19e3f23 I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things. Paulo Coelho
bac816e It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny... It's a force that .. inspirational Paulo Coelho
8c38c50 This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't. J.D. Salinger
0183ab1 No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. Ursula K. Le Guin
6524a10 A princess who was to live for a Thousand years. Longer. That had been her gift. It was now her curse. koa sjm throne-of-glass tog Sarah J. Maas
9859b20 Rowan beheld all Aelin was and is, and he was not afraid. Sarah J. Maas
0e91348 No matter what happens," she said quietly, "I want to thank you." Chaol tilted his head to the side. "For what?" Her eyes stung, but she blamed it on the fierce wind and blinked away the dampness. "For making my freedom mean something." He didn't say anything; he just took the fingers of her right hand and held them in his, his thumb brushing the ring she wore." Sarah J. Maas
4b233ac Being the only female in what was basically a boys' club must have been difficult for her. Miraculously, she didn't compensate by becoming hard or quarrelsome. She was still a girl, a slight lovely girl who lay in bed and ate chocolates, a girl whose hair smelled like hyacinth and whose scarves fluttered jauntily in the breeze. But strange and marvelous as she was, a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool, she was not the fragile creature o.. Donna Tartt
645b625 But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them. I had to do the work first, not knowing. Naomi Novik
4158d05 I desired you before, but I never loved you until this life. Kresley Cole
83b77ea Happiness is the highest form of wisdom. Jacqueline Carey
e3e5bd7 It's a long way back to Eden, Sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff. Stephen King
e8f6669 Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love. Stephen King
88c5e36 Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be. Jennifer Weiner
d9f8578 There were books about how to be gay; he'd seen them in stores and libraries. Some of them even had diagrams. But there weren't any diagrams about how to fall in love with your best friend and not fuck everything up. youth romance love unrequited-love Poppy Z. Brite
f9927b1 In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. inspirational Anne Frank
41d3f4d People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. James Baldwin
3e92225 She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own. John Green
17bc301 If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl. let-it-snow john-green John Green
11d62e5 Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God! Victor Hugo
d5fe9a4 A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance. Charlotte Brontë
c605367 To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts -- when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break -- at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent -- I am ever tender and true. (Mr Rochester.. Charlotte Brontë
75308d8 A lover finds his mistress asleep on a mossy bank; he wishes to catch a glimpse of her fair face without waking her. He steals softly over the grass, careful to make no sound; he pauses -- fancying she has stirred: he withdraws: not for worlds would he be seen. All is still: he again advances: he bends above her; a light veil rests on her features: he lifts it, bends lower; now his eyes anticipate the vision of beauty -- warm, and blooming,.. reality imagery jane-eyre expectation horror Charlotte Brontë
cd8fae5 Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it. Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss? religion hell Christopher Marlowe
9c69cae They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. To-day, wrapped in the complacent armour of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one but lightly and are soon forgotten, but then--how a careless word would linger, becoming a fiery stigma, and how a look.. youth Daphne du Maurier