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I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.
Most of the serious disagreement I get comes through email or social media, where people are more comfortable.
Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.
War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.
You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?
Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.
To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.
No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.
Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.
The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.
My father always defined my gender to my brothers. He'd say, 'This is your sister; you must take care of her.'
I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.
You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.
But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.
Like so many before them, they didn't care that my dad was only the messenger. They still wanted to shoot him.
I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what happens.
Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.
I suppose the things that you always take for granted, that you don't even notice, are what you miss the most.
Mankind has been and is divided into three parts: the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores.
Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.
My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often full the gap.
No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.
All of us have darkness inside us, and at times it possesses and seduces us in ways we never thought possible.
I'm sorry," he breathed. "You're just extremely irresistible." "Strange, men have been resisting me for years.
Life is about coming to terms with the mistakes made. Learning to live with them even when they cut soul deep.
My father tutored me well on amnesia. He always said it was a necessary ingredient for any friendship. (Kiara)
You know the saying, don’t kill the messenger? Hold that thought really, really close to your hearts. (Hermes)
Of course, it would help if she could stay focused, but she had the attention span of a sick flea.’ (Sunshine)
You know, the thing about life and love is that they are both ever-changing while people seldom are. (Acheron)
I swear it on Solin’s life. (Arik) Uh, excuse me? (Solin) I would, but there’s truly no excuse for you. (Arik)
That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.
In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.
My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.
It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.
My heroes - people like Woody Allen - were stand-up comedians. Therefore, I always felt I should give it a go.
It had long been an ambition to find the line of force that might lead to the Holy Land in the time of Christ.
I had enough trouble not falling down when the ground was dry; it might be safer for me to go back to bed now.
You haven’t changed at all. I expected a perceptible difference, but here you are, red-faced just like always.
At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.
He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.
I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character.
I think the word 'freedom' is beautiful, not so much in its phonics, but just in the power of the word itself.