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The cry of flesh calling to flesh must be the strongest thing in the world.
William Gay
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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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There must be a few times in life when you stand at a precipice of a decision. When you know there will forever be a Before and an After...I knew there would be no turning back if I designated this moment as my own Prime Meridian from which everything else would be measured.
Justina Chen
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Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.
David Anthony Durham
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Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere.
Scott Sanders (novelist)
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If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.
Jayne Anne Phillips
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Blackouts can be fun if approached with the right mindset. You just can't sweat the fact that you've lost a small portion of your life for all eternity. Occasionally, little bubbles of memory will float up like surreal Mylar party balloons at unexpected times throughout the net day and start piecing together a colorful, if incomplete, version of reality.
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
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It's a chore for a fellow to fear for his life more than once in an evening.
T. R. Pearson
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It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.
Bill Roorbach
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Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some future takeover of the state.
Phillip Lopate
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You could not presume that people were healthy. You could not presume that they would welcome the little nudges and jostlings of life. You had to behave as though everyone you met was walking a thin wire far above the earth, where the slightest wind might rock them off their balance and send them tumbling to the ground.
Kevin Brockmeier
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Is this just what you do? You start to get involved, get scared when the emotions are too much, and then dream up any excuse you can to run? Or to invite the other person to dump you?
Sherryl Woods
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Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.
Carolyn Mackler
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They just turned, my gran' said, all of 'em and walked on back down to the edge of the river here. Every las' man, woman and chile. And they wasn't taking they time no more. They had seen what they had seen and those Ibos was stepping! And they didn't bother getting back into the small boats drawed up here—boats take too much time. They just kept walking right on out over the river.
Paule Marshall
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Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.
John Knowles
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I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried.
John Swartzwelder
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If you want to learn a culture, you have to learn how to like what it likes, rather than go looking for something that you like.
John Barnes
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Being somewhere but not completely: that was home for Danny.... All he needed was a cellphone or I-access, or both at once, or even just a plan to leave wherever he was and go someplace else really really soon.
Jennifer Egan
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Yet every hair on the body is numbered. And in truth, every day is the beautiful day, the last day.
A. A. Attanasio
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If you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very much. Only a circle that has lots of room for anybody who needs it has enough spare space to hold any real magic.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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The law of cause and effect does not hide in the realm of the unexpected when intelligent beings go looking for it.
Gertrude Atherton
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I had always wondered what Reverend Lovoy meant when he talked about "grace." I understood it now. It was being able to give up something that it broke your heart to lose, and be happy about it.
Robert McCammon
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The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture.
Susan Choi
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I love you with all the plenitude of my soul. My love for you is sincere as it is profound and nothing in the world can change it.
John Monk Saunders
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