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"As I stare at it,I can feel little invisible strings,silently tugging me toward it. I have to touch it. I have to wear it. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen."
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"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."

"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."

"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little."

"Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing."

"Trying to cool his jets, trying to let her stay in charge, he attempted to hold back, but she let out this breathy little whimper like he was the best thing she'd ever tasted."

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."

"The word lust can mean "selfish desire". . . .It is wanting something so badly you will do anything to get it. That is one of the tricks of the devil. It is too high a price to pay."

"Fornication is a snare that a person sets for himself."

"One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God."
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"I'd laugh, only my stupid lizard brain has disabled the laugh button for now. I'm too frozen up with tension.I am owed so much laughter. Sometimes I hope I'm building up a stockpile of missing laughs, and when I've recovered, they'll all come exploding out in one gigantic fit that last twenty-four hours."


"I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff."


"You don't just get over it. And it doesn't make any difference if you're supposedly a grown-up. It never goes away."


"If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?"


"Your job is obviously very pressured.""I thrive under pressure," I explain. Which is true. I've known that about myself ever since...Well. Ever since my mother told me when I was about 8."


"I once tried to give him a friendly little "drugs chat". He politely corrected me on every single fact, then said he'd noticed I drank above the recommended guidelines of Red Bull and did I think I might have an addiction? That was the last time I tried to act like the older sister."


"I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn't exist anymore."
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