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"His ears caught a sweet chiming noise, and a moment later a warm rush fell over his body. How we doing Rhage? Too hot? Butch's voice. Up close. The cop was in the shower with him. And he smelled Turkish tobacco. V must be in the bathroom too. Hollywood? This too hot for you? No. He reached around for the soap, fumbling. Can't see. Just as well. No reason for you to know what we look naked together. Frankly, I'm traumatized enough for the both of us. Rhage smiled a little as a washcloth scrubbed over his face, neck and chest."

"When they are authentically engaged, their positive impressions create memorable moments and leave a lasting impact. Physical beauty becomes irrelevant because their exuberance and engagement bring out the beauty in you."

"Most people are fine with fine and okay with okay. If you want to be the best you can be, make sure you're not."

"Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing."

"I love you.'lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back.It's time. I feel it, I know it. My eyes on him, his on me, and both of us breathing, watching, tired of of waiting. Ky close his eyes, but mine are still open. what will it feel like, his lips on mine? Like a secret told, a promise kept? Like that line in the poem-a shower of all my days- silvery rain falling all around me, where the lighting meets the earth? The whistle blows below us and the moment breaks. We are safe.For now."

"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length."


"How strange that we can go from friends to inseparable to hateful then casual all in one lifetime."

"On our wedding night,' she said, 'I will cut out your tongue and swallow it. Then both tongues that spoke our marriage vows will belong to me, and I will be wed only to myself. You will most likely choke to death on your own blood, which will be unfortunate, but I will be both husband and wife and therefore not a widow to be pitied."

"I think we need to have a little talk, woman to skank."

"When we read books or acquire information about personal development even when we are mentally, emotionally, spiritually and/or physically healthy, we accumulate the personal inner tools that can save our minds from the negative consequences of a bad day."


"Ones there is a demand, it is our obligation to supply the answers, give the right responses for us to fully enjoy life."

"They flew high above savanna grassland. The sky was the deep cornflower blue of a sunny late afternoon on Earth, exactly the color of a sunny late afternoon on Earth.Only there was no sun. Whatever was lighting this planet, it wasn't a star."

"Be brave and upright. Shred the fake mask of humility into pieces. And put on the mask of arrogance if needed. Take the whole responsibility of your surrounding society on your own shoulders. If you consider yourself a human being, who cares for humanity, then, become a brave responsible citizen of the whole world. If not a big banyan tree, at least be like a mango tree under the shade of which a few people can rest. You are the architects of this beautiful world. Build it your way. And nourish it with your modern conscience."


"Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here."

"There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything."

"Those who distinguish themselves in what they do and become disinct always score distinction. Don't follow the crowd. Distinguish yourself with a special commitment and you will excel."


"Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute."

"Leadership by deception isn't leadership. It's fraud."


"This cavern is below all, and the enemy of all; it is hatred, without exception."


"The heartbeat of God burns with longing for the redemption of every individual."

"It's going to be okay," Park said.She nodded. "Right.""Because I love you."She laughed. "Is that why?""It is, actually."

"Love knew no bounds, know no limitations. It looked beyond the unseen realm and reached in for a taste, for a moment of regenerated happiness, and in that moment fate was altered and the destinies of many were changed. Their land, their Northbrook, they discovered, was a very magical place."

"His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before."


"Mum always says the right thing. She always makes everything better."

"Being happy is not a privilege-it is something everyone deserves."

"Authentic leaders are often accused of being "controlling" by those who idly sit by and do nothing."

"In order to accept yourself, you must first have some sense of who you are."

"A god of the 'possible' is no God."

"Cream always rises to the top...so do good leaders"."

"Trying to change someone to suit your desires is a setup for disappointment."

"Vin paused. "And you have all of these religions memorized?""As much as is possible," Sazed said. "Their prayers, their beliefs, their mythologies. Many are very similar -- break-offs or sects of one another.""Even still, how can you remember all of that?""I have...methods," Sazed said."But, what's the point?"Sazed frowned. "The answer should be obvious, I think. People are valuable, Mistress Vin, and so--therefore--are their beliefs."


"True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale."

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
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