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913b1ce if you can't keep him interested, that's your fault. Walter Isaacson
9f4ae66 I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so friendship life where-rainbows-end Cecelia Ahern
ba240ea think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hots for Lois Lane, when the better match, of course, would be with Wonder Woman. romeo-and-juliet superman Jodi Picoult
a8971df I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter. two-faced-people Jodi Picoult
7f47bc1 I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you. Jodi Picoult
cbd22f8 The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place. Jodi Picoult
eaf3909 Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown." "But sometimes," I point out, "it's the only thing that keeps you afloat." Jodi Picoult
e42075f Take off your shirt," I said, sitting up and pulling at the hem of the garment. "Why?" he asked, but sat up and obliged. I knelt in front of him, admiring his naked body. "Because I want to look at you," I said. He was beautifully made, with long, graceful bones and flat muscles that flowed smoothly from the curves of chest and shoulder to the slight concavities of belly and thigh. He raised his eyebrows. "Well then, fair's fair. Take off y.. jamie-fraser Diana Gabaldon
999b5d5 If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time William Faulkner
9907946 War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war. William Faulkner
9d03714 Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change colour every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue.. Roald Dahl
a64fa98 Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end. Robert Louis Stevenson
6e1c779 If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of hiding our heads in a prayer cloth and building walls against temptation, why not get better at fulfilling desire? Salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb. If the gods would tax ecstasy, then I shall pay; however,.. desire prayer religion repression salvation suffering Tom Robbins
d8c7aa5 There is lovemaking that is bad for a person, just as there is eating that is bad. That boysenberry cream pie from the Thrift-E Mart may appear inviting, may, in fact, cause all nine hundred taste buds to carol from the tongue, but in the end, the sugars, the additives, the empty calories clog arteries, disrupt cells, generate fat, and rot teeth. Even potentially nourishing foods can be improperly prepared. There are wrong combinations and .. sex Tom Robbins
686a4d5 You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. --Maya Angelou Brené Brown
314ca21 Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. Jonathan Swift
3f8511c If he'd learned one thing while he'd been away, it was that loneliness is the most taboo subject in the world. Forget sex or politics or religion. Or even failure. Loneliness is what clears out a room. Douglas Coupland
cdd92dc I would like to fall in love again but my only hope is that love doesn't happen to me so often after this. I don't want to get so used to falling in love that i get curious to experience something more extreme - whatever that may be. Douglas Coupland
edd54b7 How skillful to tax the middle class to pay for the relief of the poor, building resentment on top of humiliation! How adroit to bus poor black youngsters into poor white neighborhoods, in a violent exchange of impoverished schools, while the schools of the rich remain untouched and the wealth of the nation, doled out carefully where children need free milk, is drained for billion-dollar aircraft carriers. How ingenious to meet the demands .. oppresion politics Howard Zinn
15130b6 As we approach the crucial battleground, believe that our blades will not shatter. Believe that our resolve will not weaken. Though our paths may diverge, our iron hearts remain together. Swear, that though the land itself may break asunder...We will ! ~Renji Abarai Tite Kubo
24b65a0 She glared at him. "Why are you forever asking hard questions?" daja Tamora Pierce
74d0de1 Hope doesn't mean anything. ... Action's the only thing that counts. Margaret Peterson Haddix
ec616cf R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the species could do at a time when we had no concept of physics, chemistry, biology or medicine. We did not know that we lived on a round planet, let alone that the said planet was in orbit in a minor and obscure solar system, which was also on the edge of an unimaginably vast cosmos that was exploding away from its original source of energy. We di.. religion Christopher Hitchens
fd8db8a If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does. atheism atheist christianity death god gods hitchens humor religion Christopher Hitchens
0ae0e5e Remember, Nick, there are only two people in the universe I care for...and you're not one of them. (Savitar) Sherrilyn Kenyon
6a60034 I have a flamthrower. (Zarek) You have a what? (Astrid) It pays to be prepared. (Zarek) Well. Those are nice for toasting marshmallows, but they'll only make Thanatos mad. Regular fire won't hurt him. I have this really neat gelatinous goo that comes out with my fire and it squirts my victims so that it don't come off. Wanna see it? (Simi) No! (Zarek/Astrid) No? I don't like that word. (Simi) We love you, Simi. We're just scared of your goo.. Sherrilyn Kenyon
026a3a7 Nick's right, you are psychotic. (Talon) The correct term is sociopathic and yes, I am. But at least I have no delusions about myself. (Zarek) Meaning? (Talon) Take your meaning wherever you can find it. (Zarek) Sherrilyn Kenyon
fbd5d08 Not that I've ever feared a fight or backed down from one -(Wren) That's the truth. I swear he's half beta fish. He'd fight his own reflection to prove a point. (Maggie) Sherrilyn Kenyon
68ef741 Why do all men have to suck? I knew you all sucked and still I stupidly fell in love with one of you. Why? Why would I be such a masochist? You pour your heart out to a man and what does he do? 'Could you change the channel, babe?' You're all pathetically cold. You don't care about anyone but yourselves! (Kat) Sherrilyn Kenyon
65f0078 So what name would you rather I call you? she asked as she headed out of the parking lot. Ias or Alexion. He gave her a devilish grin that set fire to her hormones. I would rather you call me lover. He wagged his eyebrows playfully at her. Danger rolled her eyes. Like all men with a onetrack mind, he was incorrigible. Don't blame me, Alexion said in an almost offended tone. I can't help it. You should see the way you fight. It really turn.. Sherrilyn Kenyon
bfbb2af As for the age of electronics, Selena, I really don't want to get personal with something that comes with a warning label and batteries. (Grace) Sherrilyn Kenyon
eeef205 I still wanna know who to sue to get my store fixed. (Bubba) I'm a turnip. Sue the rich kid who started it. (Nick) Sherrilyn Kenyon
be265f8 Come away with me, Astrid. (Zarek) Why should I? (Astrid) Because I love you, and even if I'm lying on the sun itself I'll be freezing there without you. I need my star so that I can hear laughter. (Zarek) Sherrilyn Kenyon
d64c9ee There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not even suspected? It was not escape that she had dreamed about, it was love." Elizabeth George Speare
469d405 This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown.. feelings love marriage passion Thomas Hardy
3d2a090 To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. trees wood Thomas Hardy
7103368 I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story. moral warning Thomas Hardy
ca3c1f0 Aquella noche Mijail me conto que el creia que la vida nos concede a cada uno de nosotros unos escasos momentos de pura felicidad. A veces son solo dias o semanas. A veces, anos. Todo depende de nuestra fortuna. El recuerdo de esos momentos nos acompana para siempre y se transforma en un pais de la memoria al que tratamos de regresar durante el resto de nuestra vida sin consegurilo. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
8a41783 Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of "being godlike"." god god-is-a-comedian theology Peter Kreeft
aaba299 The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name. T.S. Eliot
bf7306b Your cat just got cat hair on me." "It's only fair," Min said. "Your suit just got expensive suit lint on him." Jennifer Crusie
e8f4cb5 I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior. temperament Kay Redfield Jamison
80ea966 Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. cats Richard Dawkins
b79132a In the beginning was simplicity. Richard Dawkins