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0cafe22 She was standing in the airport of Copenhagen, staring at a doorway, trying to figure out if it was (a) a bathroom and (b) what kind of bathroom it was. The door merely said H. Was she an H? Was H "hers"? It could just as easily be "his". Or "Helicopter Room: Not a Bathroom at All" Maureen Johnson
3557430 To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread. life mindfulness sensuality James Baldwin
136f919 A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as quickly, very little the worse for wear. On the contrary, a girl who would take love seriously would probably be a good while finding herself in love and would require something beyond mere friendly attentions from a man before she would think of him in that light. L.M. Montgomery
01579f9 There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures. bell hooks
1547e31 A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it. Khaled Hosseini
e96c08c Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it. Frances Hodgson Burnett
31d5c71 Ne mogu ja - kaze - dobri covjece, ozdraviti, jer ja i nisam bolestan, nego sam ovakav, a od sebe se ne moze ozdraviti. Ivo Andrić
0afb28a He whom loves touches not walks in darkness. Plato
e1ecd3f Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master. Alan Brennert
c33c215 Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch? Yann Martel
d13fae8 Wonder what it's like to have a peaceful life," Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled through all the extra homework they were getting." J.K. Rowling
0f29ae3 How long have you been 'Big D' then?" said Harry. "Shut it," snarled Dudley, turning away again. "Cool name," said Harry, grinning and falling into step beside his cousin. "But you'll always be Ickle Diddykins to me." "I said, SHUT IT!" said Dudley, whose ham-like hands had curled into fists. "Don't the boys know that's what your mum calls you?" "Shut your face." "You don't tell to shut her face. What about 'popkin' and 'Dinky Diddydums,'.. nicknames taunting J.K. Rowling
8cbd861 And all along the corridor the statues and suits of armor jumped down from their plinths, and from the echoing crashes from the floors above and below, Harry knew that their fellows throughout the castle had done the same. J.K. Rowling
b02a1cc Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work. harry-potter J.K. Rowling
9090227 Yes, Harry Potter!" said Dobby at once, his great eyes shining with excitement. "And if Dobby does it wrong, Dobby will throw himself off the topmost tower, Harry Potter!" "There won't be any need for that," said Harry hastily." harry-potter humor J.K. Rowling
7f5bc19 A Wrackspurt . . . They're invisible. They float in through your ears and make your brain go fuzzy," she said. "I thought I felt one zooming around in here." J.K. Rowling
d071857 Just -- just to be clear," he said. "You want to leave Tonks at her parents' house and come away with us?" "She'll be perfectly safe there, they'll look after her," said Lupin. He spoke with a finality bordering on indifference. "Harry, I'm sure James would have wanted me to stick with you." "Well," said Harry slowly, "I'm not. I'm pretty sure my father would have wanted to know why you aren't sticking with your own kid, actually." james-potter remus-lupin J.K. Rowling
9fc9486 Minerva, kindly go to Hagrid's house, where you will find a large black dog sitting in the pumpkin patch. Take the dog to my office, tell him I will be with him shortly, then come back here. harry-potter professor-mcgonagall sirius-black J.K. Rowling
1965b8d Miracles do happen. Nicholas Sparks
2b7e7ff You're a marshmallow. Soft and sweet and when you get heated up you go all gooey and delicious."-" romantic Janet Evanovich
12f145e When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt. guilt women Libba Bray
f2092a8 Because it is morning, it is morning, and there is so much to see. Libba Bray
fd528af We are all unkind from time to time. We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds. Libba Bray
3f18a0a When God looks at you, he doesn't see you; he sees the One who surrounds you. That means that failure is not a concern for you. Your victory is secure. Max Lucado
05ac61f People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want. inspirational Paulo Coelho
0960a1c Everything in life has its price. Paulo Coelho
df7042f He said something like that: "In all languages in the world, there is the same proverb: 'What the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.' Well, I say that there isn't any ounce of truth in it. The further off they are, the closer to the heart are all those feelings that we try to repress and forget. If we're far from exile, we want to store away every tiny memory of our roots. If we're far from the person we love, everyone we pass i.. Paulo Coelho
7cf0dae Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it. J.D. Salinger
5a983dc The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly. J.D. Salinger
fa91315 The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. Hermann Hesse
38e6b9a In the garden, the Captain of the Guard stared up at the young woman's balcony, watching as she waltzed alone, lost in her dreams. But he knew her thoughts weren't of him. unrequited-love Sarah J. Maas
f07829c I want to take my time with you - to learn ... every inch of you. And this apartment has very, very thin walls. I don't want to have an audience" he added as he leaned down again, brushing his mouth over the cut at the base of her throat, "when I make you moan, Aelin." -- fae fantasy love queen romance Sarah J. Maas
0dec402 What have you done to me?" Rhysand stood, running a hand through his short, dark hair. It's custom in my court for bargains to be permanently marked upon flesh." I rubbed my left forearm and hand, the entirety of which was now covered in swirls and whorls of black ink. Even my fingers weren't spared, and a large eye was tattooed in the center of my palm. It was feline, and its slitted pupil stared right back me. "Make it go away," I said, .. feyre rhys rhysand tattoo the-night-court Sarah J. Maas
04a0dbc Blood filled my mouth, warm as it dribbled out between my lips. I gazed at Tamlin's masked face one last time. I breathed, the world crumbling into a blackness with no end. A pause in Amarantha's magic. "The answer to the riddle...," I got out, chocking on my own blood, "is... love." Tamlin's eyes went wide before something forever cracked in my spine." Sarah J. Maas
954f6a2 I'm taking off my shoes.'' ''Fine. Shoes off.'' ''And my pants.'' ''Don't push it, Claire. shane-collins Rachel Caine
e927d72 If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have? Miranda July
2a704dc The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. Walt Whitman
6470f5e I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time-- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something. Jack Kerouac
2fe826a The Emperor decided to make a proclamation to his troops about the importance of compassion in the face of the rising tide of heinous fuckery and political weaselocity in the nearby kingdom of the United States. Christopher Moore
20dd181 I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny -- that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end. Jorge Luis Borges
e569507 Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun. Laurell K. Hamilton
77ec867 There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles. funny Laurell K. Hamilton
a079da1 It's easier to find a way to make money at something you love than to learn to love a job that you can make money at. Kim Harrison
740c74a Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest. the-city-in-the-sea Edgar Allan Poe