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Quotes by Author
"The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.It's for their own good."
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"Mrs Beaumont shrugged. 'Dougie travelled light in life,' she said. 'He knew it was people who were important."
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"It should be made clear that religious freedom DOES NOT include the right to persecute others, nor the right to take away their humanity and equal treatment before the law."
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"Traumatic experiences in early childhood may interfere with the child's ability to securely attach."
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"Shall we dance,friend of my heart?"We shall, little one."
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"Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual."
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"Honestly, as much as I love my brother, I'm not sure how I feel about him hanging out in your bedroom. He reached out with a muscular arm and used his fingers to brush a few strands of hair off my cheek, tucking them behind my ear. I shivered, and he smiled. "I feel like I need to mark my territory. "Shut up. "Oh, I love it when you get all bossy-pants. It's sexy."
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"An active civil position will make you become the hero of your time."
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"That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific - chair, eye, stone - but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn't include all the meanings. In defining, they always left something out."
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"But I remember the strange dragon's eyes, the look on his face as he stared it me, the way my blood had warmed at the sight of him. I remembered the heat of his gaze, the instant awakening of something fierce and primal inside me when our eyes met. The rogue dragon was trouble. Plain and simple. And I was intrigued."
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"We want to fight.'And I want J.K. Rowling to keep writing in the Potterverse, but I know that's never going to happen, I said blithely."
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"Beauty is nothing without brains & heart."
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"Your mission: May you continue to shine no matter the storms you have been through."
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"Let go of something old that no longer serves you in order to make room for something new."
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"He twisted at the waist and stretched out on his side. "You're a bit crazy. You throw apples in people's faces when you're angry. You go off half-cocked half the time. It entertains me to no end. So if you are irrational, I hope you stay that way. I love it."
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"More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin."
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"My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms."
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"Children would beg for a peppermint drop each time he walked into town, and they'd follow behind, asking for a second and a third. When he died suddenly, while working late at his office, every boy and girl in the village reported smelling mint in the night air, as if somehing sweet had passed them right by."
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"My life is like an O Henry story....the funniest girl in the world and the boy who never laughs."
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"He's looking at the wall and at the floor and at the bedsheets and at the way his knuckles look when he clenches his fist but no not at me he won't look at me and his next words are so, so soft. "Because they're dead, love. They're all dead."
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"Turn obstacles into opportunities and problems into possibilities."
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"Amber was busy flirting with a rookie named Dead Meat if he didn't stop flirting back. She was eleven, for heaven's sake! Of course, he may have just been humoring her. And it was a little cute. In a gross, Chester-the-molester kind of way."
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"A purposeless and goalless life is meaningless."
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"Inside your dream is a nation. To the rest of the world it is invisible, yet it is the only thing you see. It is your imagination."
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"A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity."
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"In a heartbeat, he understands why religions are born on the sands " there is nothing here for a man but his own mind."
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"Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life."
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"Negative thought saps a person's strength. Positive thought is healthy to the soul."
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"Charlotte wondered if she would have recognized the crazy much earlier if he looked more like Steve Buscemi then Mr. Medieval Hotness."
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"The moments of peace in between the mental practices are meditation."
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"She's never where she is, ' I said. 'She's only inside her head."
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"The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow."
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"On the first floor, the first rule of a rumor was humor."
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"The nearer I approach the end the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous yet simple."
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