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whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.
I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods.
Maybe I'm being selfish, but I choose you." He leaned over, lips brushing mine as he whispered, "I always choose you.
The part about me being an 'okay sorcerer'? 'Not great'? No I believe I missed that. -Lucas Cortez (Dime Store Magic)
There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.
God has given us a universe. It's really an expensive toy with no instructions. We're gonna break it sooner or later.
Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.
There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.
They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
If I could change a single thing about my life,' she said gently, 'I would not have been so unhappy when I was young.
Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.
Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.
When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine.
My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold
When you say, 'I can’t do that,' you're expressing yourself incorrectly. You should say, 'I couldn’t do that before.'
I am always in the right place at the right time successfully engaged in the right activity whether I know it or not.
The further off from England the nearer is to France- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'
When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.
I'm going to eviscerate you and leave your organs on a pike in the yard as a warning to those who wear large jewelry.
Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.
Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.
The most effort you should expend should be cooking. If you could cook while lying on a couch, that would be perfect.
I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.
Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.
She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.
As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.
It's – I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.
It's - I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.
To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.
It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.
We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.
We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.
His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his mother was just another one of them
In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.
I suppose I've always lived in my own head. I didn't discover boys till sixth form. Then suddenly it was, 'Oh! Boys!'
Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.
The truth won't set us free until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.
Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.
The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.
Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us.
A wide array of factors can determine just how quickly you'll be able to drift off to sleep when you choose to do so.
There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.
The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice
Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.
It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.