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We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity.
Alistair Begg
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I wanted desperately to go on living in someone's memory. If we are not remembered, we are more than dead, for it is as if we had never lived
Karen Maitland
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When someone is always looking over their shoulder, they're more likely to trip.
James Rollins
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The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?
Ilsa J. Bick
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You were talking to that niche in the wall again, Gwyneth. I saw you." "Yes, but it's my favorite bit of wall, Gordon. I'd hurt its feelings if I didn't stop and talk to it.
Kerstin Gier
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People should have all their big adventures while they're still under the age of fourteen. If you don't, you start to lose your passion for big adventures. It just begins to fade away bit by bit and then you forget you ever wanted adventures in the first place.
Ellen Potter
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Sometimes it's more generous to take than give, he said. "How?" Caroline asked. "To let the other person give you what he has to offer. If you're always the one giving, you never have to feel disappointed, because you don't expect anything in return. But it's miserly in its own way. Because you never leave yourself open or give the other person a chance.
Luanne Rice
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It was a light that shone over our faces, our wounds and scars. It was a light so brilliant and white it could have been beamed from heaven, and Brian and I could have been angels, basking in it. But it wasn't, and we weren't.
Scott Heim
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No, every person on this planet has darkness inside them. Buried so deep that only you know it's there when your world is coming to an end. Oh, but it's there. It's always there.
Alexander Gordon Smith
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My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.
Jonathan Evison
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It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better.
Lauren Willig
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Somehow I had to turn the salted peanuts in the cigar box into petits fours.
Ruta Sepetys
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Well, I didn't need them. I didn't need anyone. I was Lola Rose. I just wished I looked more like my idea of Lola Rose.
Jacqueline Wilson
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Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
Ronald Wright
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I don't want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you're so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you
Shane Koyczan
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Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.
Patrick deWitt
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Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.
Morris Gleitzman
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Words have power," Isaac answered. Words begin and end wars. They create and destroy families. They break hearts. They heal them. If you have the right words, there's nothin on earth you can't do." - Crave the Moon
Lori Handeland
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Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.
Graham Joyce
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Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.
Alaa Al Aswany
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That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.
Paul Di Filippo
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The world always seems like it's going to hell when you're depressed. And, of course, it always is going to hell in some way. That's what makes it so hard to tell the difference between Armageddon and the blues.
Andrew Klavan
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Look at your eyes. You've got bigger bags than Louis Vuitton.
Matt Dunn (author)
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What passes relentlessly through the years is blood, and time; all the bitterness or warmth along the way is almost incidental. Even blood gets forgotten eventually, bleached into myth which are bleached of all colour into ashes of myth.
Luke Davies
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The world is full of horror. Our imaginations struggle to keep up. It would be a poor life without imagining. I'm not sure we can have any salvation, in fact, without imagining.
Steve Rasnic Tem
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