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Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.
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He pressed himself into me and kissed my neck, and it was as if everything strong and solid inside me, heart and bones and muscle and gut, softened and melted from the heat of him.
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Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?
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There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was.
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You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.
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I will go out again this very night with my rockets and fuses. I will blow them straight out of their comfortable beds. Blow the rooftops off their houses. Blow the black, wretched night to bits. I will not stop. For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.
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There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon white to her death, but wears the tricolor now - white cheeks, blue lips, red dripping from her neck. Long live the revolution.
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Because I'm on the phone, Mom!" "Fooling around with your friends again! Who is that?" "Ahmadinejad." "Oh, my goodness! What is he saying?" "That he wants to see Jeezy at the Beacon tonight. Putin's going too. He scalped a ticket from Kim Jong Il. All tha gangstas are going." "Don't be so fresh, young man!" "Gotta go," he says to me. "Enemy forces have dropped a Momshell." "Fall back, solider. Over and out.
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I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.
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It has an L on it. L for love. See? It's the key to the universe, Dad. You said you were looking for it. You told Mom you were. I found it for you so you don't have to look anymore. So you can come home at night.
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Cry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge out your eyes. Carve out your heart. And what will you get from Him? Only silence. Indifference. But merely stand looking at the playbills, sighing because your name is not on them, and the devil himself appears at your elbow full of sympathy and suggestions. And that's why I did it....Because God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.
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Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.
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For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.
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When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.
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Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.
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Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you.
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It's only the body that's gone. Only the body. There's a part that doesn't go in the ground, a part that stays inside you forever.
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The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can't you see? I do not.
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There is an advantage to be found in most everything that happens to you, even if it is not immediately apparent.
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I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.
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But his words fall away. He looks confused. He looks flustered and sorry. Like you do when you run up to someone you think you know and take her arm and she turns around and you were wrong.
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I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.
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It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot...It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope.
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Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.
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Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
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Born:
August 16, 1963
(age 60)
Bio:
Jennifer Donnelly is an American writer of young adult fiction best known for the historical novel A Northern Light.
Known for:
Deep Blue (2014)
The Tea Rose (2004)
A Northern Light (2003)
These Shallow Graves (2015)
The Winter Rose (2006)
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