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88a87ea I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown. Laurie Halse Anderson
920d0f3 This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values.... birds tree turkey yourself Laurie Halse Anderson
548eee0 I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing. Pat Conroy
bd1e72e There is nothing about a bad situation that fourteen hyper cheerleaders can't worsen. Maureen Johnson
0b59aa9 Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings. meritocracy Chinua Achebe
75840b9 What Do You Care What Other People Think? Richard P. Feynman
6ec8170 Blood is a powerful thing Khaled Hosseini
1f99ca1 Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually. life E.M. Forster
6b728e3 The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul. integrity lies E.M. Forster
f2cf317 Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this. Socrates: How so, Plato? Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is a sculptor. Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they have no need to be reminded. Plato: That is correct. Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were c.. catholic-author christian citizens civil-liberty free-country freedom freedom-of-thought gadfly liberty philosophers philosophical philosophy plato socrates thought-provoking wisdom words-of-wisdom E.A. Bucchianeri
4225427 She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman made.. Isabel Allende
edc2f2b Things didn't turn out the way they're supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it. Yann Martel
0bb88da He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water though it wasn't bubble bath as Harry had ever experienced. One tap gushed pink and blue bubbles the size of footballs; another poured ice-white foam so thick that Harry thought it would have supported his weight if he'd cared to test it; a third sent heavily perfumed purple clouds hovering over the surface of the water. Harry amused himself for a wh.. J.K. Rowling
3f7a9de Prongs rode again last night... You know, Harry, in a way, you did see your father last night... You found him inside yourself. patronus prongs J.K. Rowling
8265bc3 Always the tone of surprise. ron-weasley J.K. Rowling
d7ede61 When the lump in his throat subsided, he whispered to her, "You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. I love you, Allie, more than you can ever imagine. I always have, and I always will." Nicholas Sparks
168178f The key to happiness was achievable dreams. Nicholas Sparks
68fc153 Marriage, each of them realized intuitively, was about compromise and forgiveness. It was about balance, where one person complemented the other. Nicholas Sparks
2672f89 if they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it. Nicholas Sparks
8d0da65 Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets. Nicholas Sparks
cdac6a8 I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others. Nicholas Sparks
a8a994a People don't realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus. Marisha Pessl
a665729 She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars. Lois Lowry
baad738 The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows. Libba Bray
88fe70c This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership. fight-club Chuck Palahniuk
2082577 There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love. Chuck Palahniuk
be33185 Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . . Chuck Palahniuk
d157be5 But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special. Jonathan Franzen
4f483d6 Never stop dreaming. Paulo Coelho
b2f5c51 it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be life Paulo Coelho
d55bd16 Love, too, was just a question of time quotes Paulo Coelho
bf714d0 I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself. wisdom Hermann Hesse
bba7aa2 I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. Ursula K. Le Guin
a367a53 Aelin Galathynius smiled at her, hand still outreached. "Get up." the princess said. Celaena reached across the earth between them and brushed her fingers against Aelin's. And arose." climax hallucinating heir-of-fire inspiration Sarah J. Maas
ab5eced The Wing Leader said from behind her, "Do you believe monsters are born, or made?" From what she'd seen today, she would say some creatures were very much born evil. But what Manon was asking... "I'm not the one who needs to answer that question." Elide said." manon-blackbeak queen-of-shadows throne-of-glass Sarah J. Maas
89e2ce7 Using the chair is not a punishment. It is not a prison,' he said softly. 'It never was. And I am as much of a man in that chair, or with that cane, as I am standing on my feet.' He brushed away the tear that slipped down her cheek. 'I wanted to heal you,' she breathed. 'You did,' he said, smiling. 'Yrene, in every way that truly matters . . . You did.' Chaol wiped away the other tears that fell, brushing a kiss to her hot cheek. yrene-towers Sarah J. Maas
bab388b Oh, hey, Claire," she said, and blinked. "Where are you going?" "Funeral," Shane said. On-screen, a zombie shrieked and died gruesomely. "Yeah? Cool! Whose?" "Hers." Shane said." Rachel Caine
c3cc234 Sarcasm will make your tits fall off. gullibility sarcasm Christopher Moore
6742c4f Routine feeds the illusion of safety... Christopher Moore
cfd0743 Phillip is the Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and occasionally rumored to be dead. Jonathan Tropper
5618128 One of my favorite things about hanging out with the monsters is the healing. Straight humans seemed to get killed on me a lot. Monsters survived. Let's hear it for the monsters. Laurell K. Hamilton
546098c Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that? death speak-not-ill-of-the-dead Laurell K. Hamilton
5ab5053 It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child. Isaac Asimov
62800b7 We drove 22 miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White fences trailed through the rolling fields. Soon the sign started appearing. THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED BARN IN AMERICA. We counted five signs before we reached the site. There were 40 cars and a tour bus in the makeshift lot. We walked along a cowpath to the slightly elevated spot set aside for viewing and photographing. All the people had cameras;.. don-delillo humor photography satire tourism white-noise Don DeLillo