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Quotes by Author
"They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on the other side of the sea."
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"In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine."
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"I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious."
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"[Fireheart] mewed, 'It's not my place to judge you.' Greystripe looked up as Fireheart went on. 'Greystripe, whatever you decide to do, I will always be your friend.'"
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"Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance."
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"There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time."
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"Please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown."
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"It is possible to have a rather tranquil political atmosphere in any given nation. The secret is to put truth and honesty as the foundation of the political structure in that nation."
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"He steadied himself by resting one palm on her thigh and the other on the armrest, and rose to his knees. "I'll be damned."Possibly. But not today, I think."
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"A brutal, relentless self-analysis lies at the heart of all despair."
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"What seems like the right thing to do could also be the hardest thing you have ever done in your life."
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"Love has an enormous spectrum of expression and impact. At the far end, it begins to unravel and move away from subjective experience and personal preference. It becomes pure intent, something that no longer tickles our desires, but fulfills the deeper needs of each circumstance we're in."
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"You never know when one kind act, or one word of encouragement, can change a life forever."
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"She'd hurt him, but she'd attempted everything in her power to make things right. She'd shown him in a thousand ways that she was honorable and strong and generous and very human, maybe even more vividly human than anyone he'd ever known."
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"Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man's sleep."
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"There's no greater proof of an impoverished mind than its inability to be witty except at other people's expense."
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"Do not stalk your prey until you are sure it is prey."
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"When you understand the internal process of life, first time, you realize that the personal identity that you carry in your mind, exists only at the time of momentary experience, and as the experience is forgotten, so the personal identity gets forgotten with it."
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"Don't go overboard in avoiding "said. Basically, "said is the default for dialogue, and a good thing, too; it's an invisible word that doesn't draw attention to itself."
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"Confidence is armor you cannot buy."
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"People say that a time machine can't be invented, but they've already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the world's first time machines."
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"She'd never been one to think in terms of years, anyway. A person was what they were, and many a man at forty was sixty in his ways and many another was twenty and would never grow past it."
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"The goal was never dependent on the route that took me there. It was always dependent on the heart that got me through whatever route opened itself up to my efforts."
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"Only those who can see the invisible, can do the impossible."
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"I looked for any footmarks of course, but naturally, with all this rain, there wasn't a sign. Of course, if this were a detective story, there'd have been a convenient shower exactly an hour before the crime and a beautiful set of marks which could only have come there between two and three in the morning, but this being real life in a London November, you might as well expect footprints in Niagara. I searched the roofs right along-and came to the jolly conclusion that any person in any blessed flat in the blessed row might have done it."
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"I'm going to brand myself on you so that whenever you dress, wash, or even think of being with someone else, all you'll feel, see and want is me."
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"It may not be prudent to seek new things, but it is wise to see things in a new way."
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"He didn't need a curse to realize the desire of his heart was to fight the Horfins of this land, the Kravens, and the darkness that had swayed his brothers toward evil. He would continue to fight, continue to lead. Curse or no curse."
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"Blind faith is not real religion my friend."
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"Mirroring and matching works at the sub-conscious level and serves to make the other person feel more "comfortable and connected to you. These subliminal actions can create a subconscious feeling of unison and connection that demonstrate how much you have in common."
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"How strange it is that the house of these hedonic stalwarts is filled with all the luxuries of life, right from plasma televisions to Swiss bank cheque books. So how will they notice the tonnes of food grains rotting in the northern belt?"
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"Those who love their lives too much eventually lose it. While those who are ready to sacrifice their lives for others gain it."
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"Traditional stoicism, indifference to pleasure or pain, is a form of imposing conscience so as to block more immediate desires. The problem is that it eventually collapses on itself because natural emotional and physiological impulses are being ignored or repressed. To pass beyond that dichotomy-I want to eat ice cream, and yet I don't-requires conceiving and creating an integrated mind in which our passions and childlike impulses find expression through conscience. In other words, what we feel like doing and what we "should do become one and the same."
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"Until YOU get enough of what you're going through, no matter what advice a person gives you, you'll continue to go through the same thing. When you get the courage to stop making excuses for them, and stop excusing their behavior, then you'll be able to break free from that unhealthy situation. You've got to be willing to face YOUR truth in order to move on and be at peace. You matter!"
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"The path of destiny is not always paved smooth with gold."
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"Let Christ's great commission become yours."
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"Honesty doesn't mean you reveal everything you discern and feel. That is why we have the word discretion..."
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"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."
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"But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?"
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"I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world, our society would be transformed overnight."
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"Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds."
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"The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity."
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