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Edward thought he was going to ruin Bella's life and he made her happy. And that really was everything for him.
Don't let anyone tell you that high school is supposed to be fun. High school is to be endured. College is fun.
People will believe thousands of different lies in succession rather than confront a single scintilla of truth.
Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is the ability to operate effectively even while totally terrified.
You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home
We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.
He could deal with his guilt all by himself. Guilt didn't add up to love, an emotion she was done with forever.
I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all
He wanted to wake up to her smile every day for the rest of his life, like some stupid coffee commercial on TV.
You have a... remarkable memory." "I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention.
Anyway, even if she's sugarcoating my good points, I appreciate it. Frankly, I could use a little sugarcoating.
I loved the way he kissed me, as if he had to, as if he'd go crazy if he didn't and had nearly waited too long.
Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?
One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.
I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
If you are intimidated by the artists who came before you, understand you too have a place, right next to them.
The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.
It's so hard getting rid of something that means something to you, as many of the pieces on our site do for me.
When you work online, staying on the Internet more than you need to feels like being at the office after hours.
We may live like saints, but when it comes to our fantasy life, everybody's got a little larceny in their soul.
The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything.
A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity!
Most, if not all, problems brought to therapists are issues of love. It makes sense that the cure is also love.
How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable?
There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness.
Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?
Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own, I hate them with a passion.
Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one
Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?
She was drowning-in friendliness, in community-and she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out.
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
If you want to gnaw greenery in the morning for health reasons, do it in your own home with the curtains drawn.
Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively.
Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea.
The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.
A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.
Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.
History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs
As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself.
Vision w/o execution is just hallucination. You need the right combination of visionary + team that can execute
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.
I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.
Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust.
Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.
Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.
When a person does not know the doctrines of the Christian faith, he can easily be captured by false religions.
I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I can’t afford to forget.
by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them