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It can’t eat him. I forbid it. (Artemis) She can do as she pleases. I taught her to waste not, want not. (Acheron)
No misery or bad situation is ever infinite or final until we make a conscious decision for it to be so. ~ Inferno
There are always three sides to every memory…yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two
So eager to die are you? (Zakar) Not particularly, but I’d rather go down clubbing Kessar than from boredom. (Kat)
I still wanna know who to sue to get my store fixed. (Bubba) I’m a turnip. Sue the rich kid who started it. (Nick)
It was great, wasn’t it? Really exciting stuff. (Chris) Like having my teeth drilled without Novocain. (Cassandra)
There's nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or struggle a little bit to get.
We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences.
As I grew older - and even when I was younger - it had puzzled me why I continued and continue to be heterosexual.
At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.
Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.
I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy.
You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself.
I was surprised by how much I loved Portland. It is so wonderfully creative without being artsy. Great food scene.
Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.
The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.
I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.
As long as you like me the best. And you think I’m good-looking—sort of. I’m prepared to be annoyingly persistent.
Cerulean left. I wondered if she was from Flower Planet. Blue flowers were rare - one might take a name from that.
I wondered – would a bullet through my temple actually kill me or just leave a really big mess for me to clean up?
He called you pretty...That's practically an insult, the way you look right now...You're much more than beautiful.
Momma, you're special," Renesmee told me without any surprise, like she was commenting on the color of my clothes.
Not many people get every single thing they want plus all the things they didn't think to ask for in the same day.
One thing is fact. The events of your life are created by you, and those events come to you through your feelings.
It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.
love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I live in your veins.
If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes.
You’re the most important thing in the world to me. I know you don’t believe it, but I’m going to prove it to you.
At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.
Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?
What does this mean? It means I get to spend the morning having the hair ripped off my body while Peeta sleeps in.
The morphlings from District 6 are in the camouflage station, painting each other's faces with bright pink swirls.
So I thought if I stopped being so, you know, wounded, we could take a shot at just being friends. - Peeta Mellark
Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.
We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.
I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more.
An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.
Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.
Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.
Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.
Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.
I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.
A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent.