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6ad4f2a Now I understand all those chick flicks I made fun of. 'Cause now I'm the sappy dork willing to risk it all for the girl. Estoy enamorado...I'm in love. Simone Elkeles
e47d43b When they're together, the world could fall apart around them and they'd never notice or care as long as they have each other. humour romance young-adult-fiction young-adult-romance Simone Elkeles
dfbc6d3 I feel so selfish, because I want the best of both worlds. I want to keep the image I've worked so hard to create. Simone Elkeles
174db42 Want to get in trouble with me, Carlos? kiara-westford trouble Simone Elkeles
3195052 What you were is forever who you are. Salman Rushdie
94c9f13 The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue Carlos Castaneda
28e80a9 The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today. The wind will be soft and mellow and your hilltop will tremble. As you reach the end of your dance you will look at the sun, for you will never see it again in waking or in dreaming, and then your death will point to the south. To the vastness. Carlos Castaneda
055bda0 Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt. William Shakespeare
1ec887f Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. William Shakespeare
b56a02c Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and silence.--Who is here? Weeds of Athens he doth wear: This is he, my master said, Despised the Athenian maid; And here the maiden, sleeping sound, On the dank and dirty ground. Pretty soul! she durst not lie Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this charm doth .. puck William Shakespeare
d4ad157 Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. jealousy pessimism William Shakespeare
cd21c90 Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded. Henry James
7acfd76 My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous-or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn't matter. But when you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you're in the very same proportion jealous; your jealousy has intensity and, no doubt, ferocity. When however you love in the most abysmal and unutterable way of all - whey then you're beyond everything, and nothing can pull you down. Henry James
79aa5ef Something deep inside me lurched. The stirring was as startling and unpleasant as it was thrilling and revolutionary. Stephanie Perkins
5cefc49 I bought you love poetry! 'I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.'" I blink at him. "Neruda. I starred the passage. God," he moans. "Why didn't you open it?" romance ya Stephanie Perkins
2ba3110 at any rate, there's no harm in trying. Lewis Carroll
5a6a8b9 I don't like the looks of it,' said the King: 'however, it may kis my hand, if it likes.' 'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked. cheshire-cat king Lewis Carroll
b3e33f9 Gamblers and lovers really play to lose. Lawrence Durrell
edc43d5 Gazzy: "Just Ten?" Angel: "No." Gazzy: "Five?" Angel: "No." James Patterson
92b9567 She had a lot of hugs to give, but not enough people to give them to. James Patterson
e3bbb34 Max-I'm not going to die today. James Patterson
759abeb Well, it's like I have a GPS inside me," I told them. "One of the talking ones. I tell it where I want to go, and it tells me, Go twenty miles, turn left, take Exit Ninety-fourm and so one. It can be pretty bossy, frankly. James Patterson
d7f9244 I wasn't kidding about the flying-kids part. Or the talking-dog part. Anyone who's up to speed on the Adventures of Amazing Max and Her Flying, Fun-Loving Cohorts, you can skip this next page or so. Those of you who picked up this book cold, even thought it's clearly part of the series, well, get with the program, people! I can't take two days to get you caught up on everything! Here's the abbreviated version (which is pretty, I might add.. James Patterson
f921764 When its true, when it's right, love can give you the kind of joy that you can't get from any other experience. James Patterson
ed43b80 NOOOO!" On the screen, a woman's eyes bugged almost out of her head, and I tried not to scream. Tried not to scream in exasperation, I mean. The serial killer was right in front of her, wide open! Clearly, instead of weeping like a moron, she could be lunging forward and administering a swift uppercut to the chin. Then this entire pointless ordeal would be over with, and I could go home." movies nevermore scream James Patterson
95e9e99 He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack. inferiority-complex Maya Angelou
4f1a96d Slow people are just paying close attention. Nancy Farmer
dfcbbc8 Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened. Marguerite Duras
9c4f520 Westley: Hear this now: I will always come for you. Buttercup: But how can you be sure? Westley: This is true love-you think this happens every day? Westley: I told you I would always come for you. Why didn't you wait for me? Buttercup: Well...you were dead. Westley: Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while. William Goldman
71ffdd5 It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then. Mario Puzo
35c8bd8 I'll tell you the only real truth. Cunt is where it all begins and where it all ends. Cunt is the only thing worth living for. Everything else is a fake, a fraud and just shit. Mario Puzo
4eb7ae9 Oh," Jamie offered in a bright voice. "I could cook some--" "NO!" Mae, Annabel, and Nick all exclaimed as one. Annabel gave Nick a slightly startled look. He was too busy giving Jamie a forbidding look to notice. "Look, I am getting ," Jamie argued. "I saw you put rice in a toaster once," said Mae. "I was there when you made that tin of beans explode." "It was faulty," Jamie protested, his eyes shifty. "I am sure of this." Sarah Rees Brennan
4d6fd5b After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the cool linoleum. Instead I reached out with my little finger and flipped the Barbie's head. It went thack thack against the door. I flipped it again. Thack thack. Whee. I had a new hobby. random Jeff Lindsay
4c2a2e1 I'll still be missing you as much as ever. I'l still smile at the memory of you. I'll still be - Okay, I'll say it again - loving you, but I won't abandon myseld for you. I cannot be faithful to you without being faithful to myself. Jerry Spinelli
22bf9f4 Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal (...). There is a tendency (...) for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious-because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiori.. equality meritocracy Harper Lee
d964a1d They're ugly, but those are the facts of life. Harper Lee
1e11e67 Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before & they did it tonight & they'll do it again & when they do it--- seems that only children weep." jem to-kill-a-mockingbird Harper Lee
98217c4 Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard...And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind ro.. Charlotte Brontë
0ff30d0 Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence. Alain de Botton
99e93b5 It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love. Alain de Botton
a3b2f25 O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm. That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy; And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. - innocence innocence-lost seduction virtue William Blake
b69beac Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. William Blake
d07fdbc Thir must be less tae life than this Irvine Welsh
cc79756 I was filled with such a dangerous delicious intoxication that I could have walked straight off the steps into the air, climbing on the strength of my own drunkeness into the stars. And the intoxication, as I knew even then, was the recklessness of infinite possibility. Doris Lessing