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"But some boys like boys more -And some girls make other girls hearts soar!"

"Time that had not come yet-an anomaly in itself-had the fiercest reality for her. It was a hard wind in her face; if she had made the world, every tree would be bent, every stone weathered, every bough stripped by that steady and contrary wind. Lucille saw in everything its potential for invidious change."

"Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits."

"Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion."

"They were the flash of light in a stormy sky, the fleeting darkness before dawn. Never have they existed before, nor shall they ever exist again."

"She was tired of being the one who cried."

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not."

"Dee loves it here. Before you came, she spent most of her days here."To Daemon, my arrival was the beginning of the end. The apocalypse. Kat-mageddon. "You know, I'm not going to get your sister in trouble.""We'll see."

"Every person is attractive to somebody. You are. I am. Jim Bob over there is, too. Every person is probably ugly to somebody, too. You are. I am. Jim Bob over there is, too. Don't take it personally.And, we all need to do ourselves a favor. We need to believe people when they tell us we're beautiful, handsome, sexy, attractive, hot, or hunkalicious, especially when that someone is somebody that we think is beautiful, handsome, sexy, attractive, hot, or babealicious.Because you know what? They probably really think so. They probably aren't lying. They probably don't give a damn that you don't look like Pamela Anderson."

"Cyber trolls' deceptive manipulative, political power play, duplicity and devious hypocrisy cannot equate to true friendship."

"Many a small man is considered good while he remains small, but let power come to him, and he becomes a raging fury."

"I found something! Courage--just that, courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always."


"What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman."

"The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto."

"May your wants be few and your pleasures many."


"Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there."


"If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead."

"How can you build credibility without grandstanding as you strive to stand apart from the crowd?"

"How beautiful it is to have inner peace while knowing that everyone is busy with their own battles in life."

"When leaders lack self-awareness, they doubt themselves; uncertain about their abilities; unclear about the direction to take on each turn, and more..."

"I am only one, but that is infinitely better than being none."

"Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays."

"It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own."

"There you go. That ego of yours getting in the way," I teased."Of what?""The perfect package."He snorted. "Let me tell you, I have the perfect--""Don't be gross."

"To ease the pain, erase the anger."

"A fight with her mother? It was certainly within the realm of possibility, I guessed. Elizabeth was a teenager and her mother was ... well, her mother. Normally they were the best of friends, but even best friends fight."

"The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ' there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the reader's head, constructs of imagination and ideas, given shape by the writer's work and skill and the reader's imagination. Parents, of a sort."


"The porters could always be coaxed to continue a little further through driving rain by the mere suggestion of a Pot Noodle at the end."


"Our true reality is not a limited phenomenon, existing only between birth and death. It is eternal life that exists alone, self-existent and self-sufficient, the essence of all that is, was, and ever will be throughout the universe. That is what you really are."

"Love means never having to be apart."

"Someone told me recently that a commentator or some sort had said, "The United States is in spiritual free-fall." When people make such remarks, such appalling judgements, they never include themselves, their friends, those with whom they agree. They have drawn, as they say, a bright line between an "us" and a "them." Those on the other side of the line are assumed to be unworthy of respect or hearing, and are in fact to be regarded as a huge problem to the "us" who presume to judge "them." This tedious pattern has repeated itself endlessly through human history and is, as I have said, the end of community and the beginning of tribalism."

"It's not the circumstances of your life that are preventing you from being happy; it's the excuses you're making not to be happy! Like attracts like, happiness attracts happiness, so just drop the excuses - drop every one of them - and be happy now!"

"I'm still thanking all the stars, one by one."

"Love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime."
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