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fda2cc4 Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated. Margaret Mitchell
39c5f0d Because you are a girl" is never a reason for anything. Ever." Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
7c15279 As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head. David Eddings
c0796b6 By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new. faith philosophy Marion Zimmer Bradley
0ab7cf9 You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine and applicable, but they understate the task and allow the citizens of this country to pretend that there is real distance between their own attitudes and those of the ones appointed to protect them. The truth is that the police reflect America in all of its will and fear, and whatever we might make of this country's criminal justice policy,.. america blacks police police-reform race-relations racism united-states united-states-of-america usa whites Ta-Nehisi Coates
d389892 Fools admire everything in an author of reputation. Voltaire
547d02e They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed. Ned Vizzini
b46219d I'm jealous of her. Can you be jealous of your mom for being able to handle things? I couldn't take a day off, take a dog to the vet, and cook dinner. That's like three times too much stuff for me to get done in one day. How am I ever going to have my own house? Ned Vizzini
bb6b246 Never a possession, always the possessor, with skin as pale as smoke, and eyes tawny and sharp as yellow wine: Desire is everything you've ever wanted. Whoever you are. Whatever you are. Everything. Neil Gaiman
cb7e8bd Nobody will ever hurt her. She'll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away. Neil Gaiman
dc303a7 Someone killed my Mother and my Father and my Sister?" "Yes, someone did." "A Man?" "A Man." "Which means," said Bod, "you're asking the wrong question." Silas raised an eyebrow. "How so?" "Well," said Bod. "If I go outside in the world, the question isn't who will keep me safe from him?" "No?" "No. It's who will keep him safe from me?" the-graveyard-book Neil Gaiman
6fd183f To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see. god hope pleasing-to-god Anonymous
7f8b0d4 Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: For wither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. god love wisdom Anonymous
a2ba633 Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant. cruelty life Brene Brown
0a45c83 Oh yeah, I heard you got born again.' she said. 'Which you needed since they fucked up the first time. John Sandford
9eede95 A child embarrassed by his mother," she said, "is just a child who hasn't lived long enough." Mitch Albom
a11187e Fish cannot carry guns. Philip K. Dick
82103ca Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better. illness parenting-tip Jeannette Walls
d19a1ca Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious... Hunter S. Thompson
92c8cc6 It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era -- the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run... but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant... There was madness in any direc.. Hunter S. Thompson
8ca6eb7 I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It lives only to feed and wait for the night. It's essentially nocturnal. But what of the mind which is born of the sun, William, and must spend thousands of hours of a lifetime awake and aware? Can you balance off the body, that pitiful, selfish thing of night against a whole lifetime of sun and intelle.. Ray Bradbury
b86636d But no man's a hero to himself. inspirations Ray Bradbury
58004ae Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course." Ray Bradbury
cb80c5e There is in the soul a desire for not thinking. For being still. Coupled with this a desire to be strict, yes, and rigorous. But the soul is also a smooth son of a bitch, not always trustworthy. And I forgot that. Raymond Carver
52543c4 If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog. jewish Saul Bellow
594a948 Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one's ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to settle here, there, exactly where I would never know, in the dark heart of New York. Sylvia Plath
4b49851 It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York. I'm stupid about executions. The idea of being electrocuted makes me sick, and that's all there was to read about in the papers -- goggle-eyed headlines staring up at me at every street corner and at the fusty, peanut-smelling mouth of every subway. It had nothing to do with me, but I couldn't help wondering what it would .. Sylvia Plath
b4f3d29 N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation. Orhan Pamuk
c5675a1 I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it. Marilynne Robinson
78018e7 Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it. Marilynne Robinson
a8e370d A wager?" I repeated. "Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ... "Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling, an odd sort of smile, hard to define. "A kiss." My first reaction was outrage, but then I remembered that I was on my way to Court, and that had to be the kind of thing they did at Court. And if I win I don't have to collect. I hesitated only a moment longer, lured by the thought of open sky, and spee.. meliara shevraeth vidanric wager Sherwood Smith
4337919 The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending--the sad ending Orson Scott Card
efc5bcf We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started. Laura Ingalls Wilder
43f12b8 The rule is: don't use commas like a stupid person. I mean it. grammar stupid Lynne Truss
cd0deea That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth traveled round the sun appeared to me to be such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it. 'You appear to be astonished,' he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. 'Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it.' 'To forget it!' 'You see,' he explained, 'I consider that a man's brain is like a little empty attic, and you hav.. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9ad82a1 Anything is better than stagnation. Arthur Conan Doyle
d6e32e7 You're an ass," I spat, picking up the shirt. He chuckled. "And it's a fine ass, I'm told." Jennifer L. Armentrout
943cbcc Warmth spread down my neck. "It's actually, and not blah or whatever." jennifer-l-armentrout katy-and-daemon katy-swartz lux onyx Jennifer L. Armentrout
f3e8802 You know, there's this thing called pants. You should try it out." He cast me a cheeky grin as he turned. "You'd be devastated. Just think, you get to see this every day from here on out." My heart did a trippy dance. "Your naked ass? Gee. Sign me up for that." Jennifer L. Armentrout
c284749 And I never felt this way with anyone else. Like I'm falling every time I'm around you, like I can't catch my breath, and I feel alive--not just standing around and letting my life walk past me. There's been nothing like that with anyone else. Jennifer L. Armentrout
221a3e4 A smug, satisfied grin stretched Apollo's lips. "I took Hermes' helmet, melted the mother down, and here you go. An invisibility charm just for you." Apollo dropped the necklace into my palm. It was a reddish-gold color, and a crudely shaped wing was etched into it. "Ha," I said. "It's like Harry Potter and the invisibility cloak." Everyone stared at me." Jennifer L. Armentrout
c830bee If he made one more comment about the length of my skirt, I was going to hurt him. And if Blake did, Daemon was going to maim him. Jennifer L. Armentrout
b7f6676 For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become. Darren Shan
7c60b4c Snake people do not drink milk," Kekrops said. "We are lactose intolerant reptiles." "Me too!" Frank said. "I mean . . . lactose intolerant. Not a reptile. Though I can be a reptile sometimes-" lactose-intolerant percy-jackson Rick Riordan