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| c49b2ed | You really shouldn't do that to people," I criticized. "It's hardly fair." "Do what?" "Dazzle them like that - she's probably hyperventilating in the kitchen right now." He seemed confused. "Oh come on," I said dubiously. "You have to know the effect you have on people." He tilted his head to one side, and his eyes were curious. "I dazzle people?" "You haven't noticed? Do you think everybody gets their way so easily?" He ignored my question.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 85955d1 | Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French. | englishmen french humor languages | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| ee2a125 | I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received. | Amy Tan | ||
| bac116d | Alex took a piece of my heart with him when he left. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 8c67eae | Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan | mindfulness wisdom | Carlos Castaneda | |
| 5520752 | Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace. | William Shakespeare | ||
| f86bde8 | Take a risk. Take a fucking risk. If you keep playing it safe, you'll never know who you are -Josh | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| cfc823c | What are you gonna do with a giant crossword poster? 'Oh, I'm sorry, Anna. I can't go to the movies tonight. I'm working on two thousand across, Norwegian Birdcall.'" "At least I'm not buying a Large Plastic Rock for hiding 'unsightly utility posts.' You realize you have no lawn?" "I could hide other stuff. Like...failed French tests. Or illegal moonshining equipment." He couples over with that wonderful boyish laugher, and I grin. "But wha.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 17cb051 | It sucked, but it was way cool at the same time," Gazzy said. "I felt like the Blue Angels!" "Yeah, except the blue Angels are an extremely well funded, well equipped, well trained, well fed, and no doubt squeaky-clean group of crack navy pilots," I said. "And we're a bunch of unfunded, unequipped, semitrained, not nearly well fed enough, and filthy mongrel avian-human hybrids. But other than that, it's exactly the same." | James Patterson | ||
| bc398b6 | They're afraid of change, and we must change. They're afraid of the young, and we are the young. They're afraid of music, and music is our life. They're afraid of books, and knowledge, and ideas. They're most afraid of our magic. | James Patterson | ||
| e2619a8 | The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her. | Emily Brontë | ||
| 1385548 | And to see the white flash of Klaus's eyes as he whirled on her. For one stunned instant she stared at him, and then lightning crackled. From an empty sky. | romance vampire | L.J. Smith | |
| dc75ff6 | I wish to God," said Gideon with mild exasperation, "that you'd talk--just once--in prose like other people." -- | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| b863eb0 | She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean. | lyanna-stark nature | George R.R. Martin | |
| db26d76 | If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundred people." "A zillion?" "Even a zillion. A little hatred goes a long, long way. It grows and grows. And it's hungry." "Like Cimmamum?" "Even hungrier. You keep feeding it more and more people, and the more it gets, the more it wants. It's never satisfied. And pretty soon it squeezes all the love out of your heart"--I pointed to her heart; .. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| a5d132a | You liked me." I smiled. "You were smitten with me. You were speechless to behold my beauty. You had never met anyone so fascinating. You thought of me every waking minute. You dreamed about me. You couldn't stand it. You couldn't let such wonderfulness out of your sight. You had to follow me." I turned to Cinnamon. He licked my nose. "Don't give yourself so much credit. It was your rat I was after." She laughed, and the desert sang." | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 210dcf2 | There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character. | flexibility humorous personal-development personality self | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| b91630c | I have always been interested in this . My father had a set of 's books on the shelf at home. I must have opened the covers about the time I was 13. And I can still remember the flash of enlightenment which shone from his pages. It was a revelation, indeed, to encounter his views on political and religious matters, so different from the views of many people around us. Of course I did not understand him very well, but his sincerity and ard.. | french-revolution imprisonment influence jean-jacques-rousseau liberty montesquieu paine robespierre rousseau thomas-paine unthinking | Thomas A. Edison | |
| e1665e3 | Thats the dilemma isn't it? when you're single, there's the sadness and joy of . And when you're paired, there's the sadness and joy of . | David Levithan | ||
| 26ce150 | Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 1f42ed5 | The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. | William Blake | ||
| 472b6d8 | I took a deep breath. 'For you I've got something better than love.' What's that?' I...trust you.' Why?' You'll never hurt me.' Thank you.' But...' But, what?' I said, 'That means I'll hurt you.' Why?' 'Cause, like I said, you'll never hurt me back. | trust | Avi | |
| 997c95b | Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 14f07af | A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity. Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. You have been warned. | inspirational irony writer | David Mitchell | |
| baea997 | Yes. What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 9d198be | Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either "have" or "have not." In fact, there is no such thing as "freedom" except as a word and an abstract concept. There is only one reality: the of freeing ourselves in the process of making choices. In this process the degree of our capacity to make choices varies with each act, with our practice of life." | Erich Fromm | ||
| e8b9b26 | Okay, pull me up." The rope didn't move. "Ascanio?" What was it now? Did he see a butterfly and get distracted? The rope slid up, as fast as if wound by a winch. I shot upward. What the...? I cleared the edge and found myself face to face with Curran. Oh boy. He held the rope with one hand, muscles bulging on his arm under his sweatshirt. No strain showed on Curran's face. It's good to be the baddest shapeshifter in the city. Behind him Asc.. | beast-lord boop bunnycat curran kate-daniels kate-daniels-magic-breaks | Ilona Andrews | |
| f2986d3 | Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination. | insanity logic-reason poets | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 387846d | That a good man may have his back to the wall is no more than we knew already, but that God could have His back to the wall is a boast for all insurgents forever. Christianity is the only religion on earth that has felt that omnipotence made God incomplete. Christianity alone felt that God, to be wholly God, must have been a rebel as well as a king. Alone of all creeds, Christianity has added courage to the virtues of the Creator. For the o.. | G. K. Chesterton | ||
| 4bad94c | When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again. | opportunities | Philip Pullman | |
| f0d29ee | My investigative technique mostly consisted of going through the list of interested parties and making as much noise as possible, until the culprit lost his patience and tried to shut me up. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 63647a4 | I opened a writing app and began typing what I knew about Pierce. . Terminal fear of T-shirts or any other garment that would cover his pectorals. . Doesn't hesitate to kill. Holding him at gunpoint would result in me being barbecued. Whee. . Now here's an understatement. Good information to have, but not useful for finding him. . Neither here nor there. Hmm. So far my best plan would be to build a mountain of gasoline cans and explosives, .. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 026e3c4 | Don't feel bad; I regularly reduce people to unintelligible stammers. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 052da11 | Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries. | future inspirational men | Eoin Colfer | |
| 4c5f6a3 | Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds. | star | Victor Hugo | |
| acda8bf | Plea Against the Death Penalty | Victor Hugo | ||
| d560231 | We're all entitled to a little stupidity now and then. --Beldin | David Eddings | ||
| ef002ad | No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you. | pain | George Eliot | |
| 08fda6b | Man, they got mosquitoes 'round this place big enough to rape a chicken. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 98c5403 | Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of .. | blessings contentment happiness pray soul | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 777b7ae | But to yell at your creativity, saying, "You must earn money for me!" is sort of like yelling at a cat; it has no idea what you're talking about, and all you're doing is scaring it away, because you're making really loud noises and your face looks weird when you do that." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 726ef55 | I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0697866 | but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 359e699 | There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be. | Neil Gaiman |