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Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.
Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I'm human. It was less painful being strangled.
Katniss Everdeen, you have caused a spark, wich left unattended, may cause a spark that could cause a whole rebelion
If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, I don't know it.
And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?
So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.
ll I can think about, every day, every waking minute since they drew Prim's name at the reaping, is how afraid I am.
My mother just wanted me to forget it. So, of course, every word was immediately, irrevocably branded into my brain.
You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?
At the age of five she has already come to terms with one of the life's harshest lessons: that the world isn't fair.
I risked my life to save lives. I'm not looking for glory. I just want people to know the truth about what happened.
A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
Only a minute to minute relentless struggle can balance one's natural but stupefying insistence to remain unchanged.
I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.
Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!
I have a rule: I will not alter the basic history of a real-life character to suit our fictional needs in a big way.
Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.
For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.
The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.
There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.
It's hard for me to talk about the terrible things that have happened in my lifetime because they didn't need to be.
I think for me the trick is not to aim to impress or to even try to make people laugh but instead to tell the truth.
Do you have to feel something for it to be real or mean anything? Can you touch your dreams, taste your imagination.
We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them.
As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
Every collection reflects the ideas andvalues and interests of the individual or group who developed the collection.
An era similar to the one in which the black rotary phone dominated its product category may not recur anytime soon.
I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.
Akkarin: I watched the first woman I loved die. I dont think I can survive losing the second. Sonea: I love you too.
My mind was clear and penetrating at the time, for it was midnight, the hour at which I am most brave and most free.
When I was learning to drive, I thought the big milestones were changing gear, changing lane, and three-point-turns.
The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?
It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.
The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.
The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'
Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' —Fletch
The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation.
The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Trusting God means thinking and acting according to God's word in spite of circumstances, feelings, or consequences.
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man
To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.