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Daemon had written: "What do you do when she asks a question no man would give a child an answer to?" Saetan had replied: "Hope you're obliging enough to answer it for me. However, if you're backed into a corner, refer her to me. I've become accustomed to being shocked.
Anne Bishop
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Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.
John Knowles
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He reached across and fingered the pendant; I felt it move against my skin. "Willow, look," He said. "We haven't talked much about what might happen, but...you know that I always want to be with you, right? I mean—no matter what." And I had known it; I felt it every time he held me—but even so, actually hearing the words made my heart catch. "I want that, too," I said. "Always, Alex.
L.A. Weatherly
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The spell was simple and I'd said half of it before she even figured out that it was a spell. Since you like bubbles so, In a bubble you must go. In that bubble you will stay Till your bubbles go away. Sound can't pass from inside out Even if you scream or shout. If you want to be set free, End your spell, that's the key
E. D. Baker
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We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?
Anne Rice
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From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.
Tony Hillerman
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Trying to out-guess Bonaparte; the thought makes my blood run cold.
Naomi Novik
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Is it not the worst pain to know there is a cure for your child's illness and then not be able to obtain it? Oh it must be the one of the worst types of pain in the world...
Nnedi Okorafor
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Whoever's job it was to keep the room clean was clearly not an overachiever.
Steve Hamilton (author)
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It was too vast a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell them before it was too late. Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then, and wouldn't be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore.
S. E. Hinton
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Nothing can stop the questing of men, not even Man. If we will it, not only the wonders of space, but the very stars are ours.
Andre Norton
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She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees.
Lynn Kurland
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A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
Arthur Golden
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To all the guys who broke our hearts - we wouldn't appreciate what we have today without you.
Emma McLaughlin
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If you make something your life's work, make sure it's something you can feel proud of when you're an old relic like me.
Patrick Carman
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One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.
Booth Tarkington
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In our days of prosperity it is more difficult to sustain a religious spirit than in times of adversity, because we are apt to forget that God who has bountifully given may also take away.
Rachel Simon
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Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.
Louis L'Amour
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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
Bayard Taylor
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The snow came up to the top of Georgie's calves - she had to lift her feet high to make any progress. Her ears and eyelids were freezing... God, she'd never even been able to imagine this much cold before. How could people live someplace that so obviously didn't want them?
Rainbow Rowell
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So there are no more words and all is ended; The timbrel is stilled, the clarion laid away; And Love with streaming hair goes unattended Back to the loneliness of yesterday.
Joseph Auslander
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Blue dusk, that brings the dewy hours, Brings thee, of graceless form in smooth, Dark stumbler at the roots of flowers, Flaccid, inert, uncouth.
Edgar Fawcett
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The last I knew you were going to a party. just a few friends at the McEvoys' you told me. The science club, you told me. What happened? You got into a fight about the theory of relativity? Did creationists crash the party and start a rumble?
Tami Hoag
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With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.
Marge Piercy
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The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
Rona Barrett
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