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It's a strange thing now how people will know they're dying themselves when no one else could suspect anything wrong at all with them.
The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa
I must stop wishing for things to happen. Because something will happen eventually, and when it does, I'll be bound to wish it hadn't.
Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for it to get better.
Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him.
Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. - Anita Blake
If you keep a gun in your purse, you get killed, because no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It's a rule.
I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice.
I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else.
I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.
I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren't very good at it.
Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.
I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly
To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.
I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.
Watch out, I have a large, very large fur, with which I could cover you up entirely, and I have a mind to catch you in it as in a net.
I'd like to know what I could do if I really had the time to spend on writing a book, with no columns or shows to do at the same time.
I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.
Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.
Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.
When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.
At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating; and suddenly they would say, 'Time to feed the cat,' as if it were their idea.
They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.
Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. Im not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.
You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
I hate to be treated as if I'm invisible. I get incensed when people talk across me or refuse to catch my eye in a restaurant or shop.
Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat.
I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.
i never pegged you for a fan of the obvious, sam", "i'm not, otherwise, i would've said, 'hey, shouldn't you be in school ?'", "touche
He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places - striding. Walking was for ordinary people.
In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.
...and we sat like that, one creature in two bodies, for a long time, until I forgot what I'd been upset about and I was myself again.
Whatever we do or say without prayer always ends up either sinful or harmful and convicts us through the deeds in some mysterious way.
He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends.
... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.
Let's just keep asking ourselves this question: 'Is what I'm about to do strengthening the web of connections, or is it weakening it?'
I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up and soar!
It's useful to think of the imagination as an aspect of the body because it seems to have processes of its own that are obscure to us.
The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.
The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.
In our culture, we have smart people and then we have the hot people. And the hot people have all the sex, and the smart people don't.
You got responsibilities when you’re a leader. You got a responsibility not to kill too many of your men. Or who’re you going to lead?
If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.
I love Jughead. I love his one-step-removed perspective on everything in Riverdale. And I love the fact that he wears that stupid hat.
I can promise you that the world is a factory. The sun stirs it, the humans rule it. And I remain. I carry them away.- spoken by death
Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.
The richest man in the world is not the one who still has the first dollar he ever earned. It's the man who still has his best friend.
I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.