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So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.
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Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
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he's a genius, she's a genius, wow, you know alot of geniuses, you should meet some stupid people sometime, you might learn something
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Woody Allen
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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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Ned Vizzini (It's Kind of a Funny Story)
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The image isn't reality. Even though we're used to thinking that way alot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say 'This is a doggie' - but it's not. It's just an image.
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L.J. Smith (The Forbidden Game (Forbidden Game, #1-3))
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I have moments like that alot, when my brain falls asleep or something, and the next thing I know I've missed something, as if a puzzle piece fell out of the universe and left me staring at the blank place behind it.
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Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1))
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Nice costume," he said. "Ditto. I can tell you put alot of though into yours." Amusement curled his mouth. "If you don't like it, I can take it off." I tapped my chin thoughtfully. "That just might be the best proposal I've had all night." "My offers are always the best, Angel.
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Becca Fitzpatrick (Finale (Hush, Hush, #4))
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I can't believe you know someone named Freaky Pete," said Simon. "I know alot of people," said Luke. "Not that Freaky Pete is strictly people, but I'm hardly one to talk.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2))
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Milo and I have this drinking game about Beth: every time she annoys me, we drink. She annoys me alot.
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Courtney Summers (Fall for Anything)
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I don't have alot of people to talk to. Not alot of people are worth my time.
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Julie Anne Peters (By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead)
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It takes sometime and a lot of looking around but you eventually find that your home is alot more just the house you live in.
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Gabriel BΓ‘ (Daytripper)
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I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that alot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.
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Anne Lamott
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Just so you know... Even if I don't break it... alot of people break their own Egg. All those adults walking around with tired faces... they've thrown away the "person they want to be.
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Peach-Pit (Shugo Chara!, Vol. 2: Friends in Need)
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Academia takes alot from you a gives back very little. It's hard to stick around without a good reason to do so
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Ali Hazelwood (The Love Hypothesis)
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Josh pulls me aside. "Hey, About before, I just... I wanted to say ... well, I think you're pretty special." He says, kind of stumbling over the words a little. Like he's hesitant to say them, now i wish he'd hug me again. And then kiss me. But he doesn't. He just waves and walks off. I sigh. "Hannah, I just... I want you to know if I pause alot when I tell you how special you are I want you to think that I'm... very... very... deep," Finn says
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Elizabeth Scott (Something, Maybe)
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There are greater things to be achieved in every new year, and each and everyone must prepare themselves to be great, not by words of the mouth, but by alot of sacrifices.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
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I loved Frank...I loved him alot. But by that time, Jamie was my heart and the breath of my body. I couldn't leave him. I couldn't.
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Diana Gabaldon (Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2))
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my quote is that a guy name beastly theres a guy that has a wierd face and he loves her. so much and the women didn,t like him at all. then they get in love alot in the end.and then he gets his face normal.
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Alex Flinn (Beastly (Beastly, #1))
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Alot can happen in eleven minutes. Decker can run two miles in eleven minutes. I once wrote an English essay in ten. And God knows Carson Levine can talk a girl out of her clothes in less then half that time. Eleven minutes might as well be eternity underwater. It only takes three minutes without air for loss consciousness. Permanent brain damange begins at four minutes. And then, when the oxygen runs out, full cardiac arrest occurs. Death is possible at five minutes. Probable at seven. Definite at ten. Decker pulled me out at eleven.
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Megan Miranda (Fracture (Fracture, #1))
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Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books
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Michael Caine
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Wounds. Broken places. Possibility. Change. Steps toward holiness. Imperfect progress. The hurt in those who hurt me---their underbellies. Grace. Love. Me looking alot more like Jesus than I did before. And to discover through all this seeing---being unglued isn't all that bad.
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Lysa TerKeurst (Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions)
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Haters are alot like crickets. Crickets make alot of noise. You hear them, but you don't see them. But when you walk pass them... they STFU!
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JosΓ© N. Harris
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TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS...guess Elvis use to say it alot and had necklaces made with initials TCB
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Elvis Presley
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Raphael continued to stare at me, in no hurry to get started. "You know the best way to get rid of a demon, right?" He asked with a serious face. I caught Ivy rolling her eyes as I shook my head. "Exorcise alot!" Ivy caught my expression of dismay. "It's okay, Beth. He's famous for his bad jokes. We're still waiting for him to grow up." "And like Peter Pan, I hope to avoid that at all costs.
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Alexandra Adornetto (Heaven (Halo, #3))
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What they had between them was alot deeper than what most people had.
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Beth Harbison (Always Something There to Remind Me)
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Fang shreds alot.
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Parker Blue (Bite Me (Demon Underground, #1))
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yes, i cut my skin... yes, i have a lot of insecurities... yes, i barely talk... yes, i’m behind in school... yes, i cry alot... yes, i like to be alone... yes, i like smoking... yes, i hide alot of feelings... yes, i fake a smile everyday... and yes, i wish i was dead... for your sake.
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Me
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I thought at first she was just dead. Just darkness. Just a body being eaten by bugs. I thought about her alot like that, like someone's meal. What was her - green eyes, half a smirk, the soft curves of her legs - would soon be nothing, just the bones I never saw. I thought about the slow process of becoming bone and then fossil and then coal that will, in millions of years, be mined by humans of the future, and how they would heat their homes with her, and then she would be smoke billowing out of a smokestack, coating the atmosphere. I still think that, sometimes, I think that maybe "the afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make the time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe she was just matter, and matter gets recycled. But ultimately I do not believe that she was just matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take Alaska's genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her. There is something else entirely. There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed.
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John Green (Looking for Alaska)
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If a woman's vagina was hell fire, then alot of sex maniacs would prefer to spend their eternity in hell.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
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Theres something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they're close, like you could reach out and touch them. But you cant because sometimes things look alot closer than they seem
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Kami Garcia (Sublimes creatures)
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It's easier to just let it go. It hurts alot less
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M. Leighton (Fragile)
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Gokudera: Anyway I don't like that guy. Tsuna: Huh? Why not? Gokudera: Anyone older than me is my enemy. Tsuna: [shocked - thinking to himself] God! That's alot of enemies!
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Akira Amano
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I loved Frank...I loved him alot. But by that time, Jamie was my heart and the breath of my body. I couldn't leave him. I couldn't.
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Diana Gabaldon
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I love you, you know that? You're so selfless. Don't paint me a saint, Gracie. I have alot of making up to do for the shit I've caused but I'm trying.
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Annie Brewer (Choices (Choices, #1))
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It takes alot of energy to pretend you're fine when you're not. A bit like being in a play that never ends. I get an intermission, but I always have to go back on stage.
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Chelsea M. Cameron (Nocturnal (The Noctalis Chronicles, #1))
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When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying faerie dust behind me, and laughing manically as I went.
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M.E. Vaughan
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If you stand at the window where I stood, if you read the books that I read, if we can be with each other even just like that...then lets, count that as us being together. I'll miss you alot. I love you. I love you...
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T.O.P
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The quality of your friends says alot about your character.
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Naide P Obiang
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It's easier to be happy than to be sad. Being sad takes alot of work. It's exhausting
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Gabrielle Zevin (Elsewhere)
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So you got rid of your astonishment that someone could write so much more dynamically than you. You stopped cherishing your aloneness and poetic differentness to your delicately flat little bosom. You said: she's to good to forget. How about making her a friend and competitor β€” you could learn alot from her. So you'll try. So maybe she'll laugh in your face. So maybe she'll beat you hollow in the end. So anyhow, you'll try, and maybe, possibly, she can stand you. Here's hoping!
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Sylvia Plath (The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath)
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Suffering does amazing things to people, they become very different in a very short period of time, in many cases, they get a lot wiser an alot braver and become very much more worth listening to.
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Tucker Carlson
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Standing alone scares alot of people it means they have to be themselves and more often than not they haven't the slightest clue who they've been all this time & that's why people stay the same because it's a frightening choice to step away from the crowd.
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Nikki Rowe
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In my lifetime I plan to see and do alot of things. I want to leave an impact on this world and give my generation and ones to come something to believe in. All the things I set out to be today I shall be, as for tommorrow I will continue to dream and live out my journey.
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Duane King
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The more you read the more you realized that you dont know alot of things.
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HARTATI NURWIDJAYA
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there's good girls out there but at the same time there's alot of BAD BITCHS !!
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blanco vandam
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Teach yourself, read alot.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Alot won't understand you and that's ok.
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Nikki Rowe
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I Love cherrys alot
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Cherry Hill
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I've kept alot of secrets from a lot of people that i never should have, but the ones I kept from myself stung a lot worse than any of those
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Aric Davis
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I'm tired of being scared, and I know you are too. Not that there isn't alot to be scared of in this world today, between the non-stop headlines about wars and nuclear power plants and terrorists and assasinations and civil unrest and economic uncertainty and political doublespeak and insane weather and an environment that's becoming unhealthier by the day. But a point comes when it's too much to deal with, and thinking about it accomplishes nothing more than sending you to bed with a cold cloth on your head.
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Sylvia Browne (End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies About the End of the World)
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I woke this morning with tears poured like rain To realize alot in the world is in vein My wish to all is peace love and light To bring all together and negativity take flight. Your heart can be pure and riddled with love You just have to care and watch flight of a dove Talk is cheap and fables are true Follow your heart and never be blue.
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Peace Gypsy
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Be patient with yourself. The journey of life requires alot of patient, persistence and perseverance.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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max the Ackermans family dog and brad had alot in common but max was defintely smarter
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Meg Cabot
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Alot of shit's gone down tonight. I don't want you to think all I want from you is sex. Let's just cuddle. And then tomorrow, I'll fuck you until you can no longer walk." ~Slade
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C.D. Hussey (de Sang: Embrace Your Blood Lust (Human Vampire #2))
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Writing is alot like religion, you need to have faith.
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L.A. Jones
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The big bad monster wasn't green and hiding under the bed, it wore tasteless floral prints, bright scarlet lipstick and sat in the kitchen smoking and saying 'bollocks' alot.
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Jo Brand
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You need alot of patient to keep working. It takes time for the goals to be realized.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (The Alphabets of Success: Passion Driven Life)
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Snooping data was alot like having indiscriminate sexβ€”protection or noprotection, sooner or later you caught something.
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Dan Brown (Digital Fortress)
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I doubt if any son every knew more about his father and his father's father than I, with all you have told me; but telling is not the same. There was alot of knowing to make up.
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Mary Stewart (The Hollow Hills (Arthurian Saga, #2))
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Im clearing out the wreakage of my soul and it has been a hard job, there's alot to it all, and there'sthings I've used and things I've abused but I refuse to give in ''tere is a time to mend.
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Tonya Marie Faris
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I don't imagine Sin gets that alot," Mae commented. "What?" "Boys not liking her," said Mae. "She's kind of amazing. And beautiful." She spoke almost absently, forehead pressed against the glass as she tried hard not to sleep. There was morning mist obscuring the fields on either side of the road, so dense and white it looked like there were mutant sheep lurking on all sides. It was possible that she was overtired. "You're just as beautiful as she is," said Alan. That was a flat-out lie, like so much of what Alan said. Like so much of what Alan said, it sounded true. "And you read," he added. "Uh, hot," said Mae, feeling quite a bit more awake. "Well," said Alan, faint color in his cheeks, "I think so." She wasn't the only one in the car feeling tense. There was a slight defensive posture to his shoulders now, as if admitting any sort of honest emotion, even something as simple as liking girls who read, was bound to get him hurt... "I'd rather be amazing than beautiful." "I think you are.
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Sarah Rees Brennan (The Demon's Covenant)
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I thought about fate alot, about how the tides could turn and change…about how one moment, one decision…could change your whole life… Like what happened when I had the pucking wrong date…and I ended up with a happily ever after.
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C.R. Jane (The Pucking Wrong Date (Pucking Wrong, #3))
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I realized that the cuts I had made, they left scars that might never go away. It means alot to me. To know that there will always be something there. Im in love with my scars, they wont ever leave me like everything and everyone else.
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Iliana Gonzalez
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Everybody, one day will die, and be forgotten. Act and behave in a way that will make life interesting and fun, fuck a mundane predictable life working monday to friday with something you derive no pleasure from; just living life out till you grow old and wither away. Find a passion, form relationships, dont be afraid to get out there and fuck what everyone else thinks, trust me its alot more fun that way. Dont ever pay people out or put people down. Instead just put yourself up and let the haters do their thing. Id rather be a person thats hated on, than a person that does the hating. A wise man one said.. Haters gonna hate!
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Zyzz
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MARIE ,THE MADAM-She has the looks of Liz Taylor and the brains of a Wall Street broker. " We were lovers for a hot five minutes when I first hit the TL. Marie always liked a lot of diamonds,and I've always liked alot of girls. With that combination,we're better off as friends.
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Jeri Estes (Stilettos and Steel)
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Do the small stuff. A consistent little will earn you a lot.
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Richelle E. Goodrich (Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year)
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You never know who is the killer and when he will attack you, he could take a lot of faces and bodies.
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Deyth Banger
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A little conflict can create a lot of creativity.
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Richie Norton
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I have come to realize that my stupid gestures excites women alot, and if I'm really stupid, i will dare to take them to bed and excite them even more.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
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The journey of life requires alot of enthusiasms, great passion and commitment.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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I enjoyed my formal education but I appreciate my acquired specific knowledge alot.
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Anyaele Sam Chiyson (The Sagacity of Sage)
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There are alot of people hurting deep inside from experiences in life. Be strong and keep the faith. Even if it's like a flame in the dark.
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Krystal Volney
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What are you thanking me for?" "For being you, and it doesn't mater what name anyone calls you. I love you." His lips quirk."But I like how Amy Stone sounds. I like it alot.
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Lisa Renee Jones (Infinite Possibilities (The Secret Life of Amy Bensen, #2))
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We are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
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Stephen Chbosky
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HaMa’alot MiMa’amakim,
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Yossi Klein Halevi (Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation)
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Predict little, expel alot
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Wilson M. Mukama
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Those who think alot Regret alot Because They thought alot And look what they have got
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Zulaikha Nadeem
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He is the kind of guy who carries himself like he gets laid alot
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Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl)
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I mean if I don't get started soon, how will I get the chance to sharpen my wits? It takes alot of training.
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Elaine Dundy
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Imagination leaves alot to the creativity.
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Prof.Salam Al Shereida
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Ones u lern how to speake English money come to much around then like jus alot of it
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W.B. Yeats (Plays of Changing Ireland)
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If you ever reed this Miss Kinnian dont be sorry for me. Im glad I got a second chanse in life like you said to be smart because I lerned alot of things that I never even new were in this werld and Im grateful I saw it all even for a littel bit. And Im glad I found out all about my family and me. It was like I never had a family til I remembird about them and saw them and now I know I had a family and I was a person just like evryone. I dont no why Im dumb agen or what I did rong. Mabye its because I dint try hard enuf or just some body put the evel eye on me. But if I try and practis very hard mabye Ill get a littel smarter and no what all the words are. I remembir a littel bit how nice I had a feeling with the blue book that I red with the toren cover. And when I close my eyes I think about the man who tored the book and he looks like me only he looks different and he talks different but I dont think its me because its like I see him from the window. Anyway thats why Im gone to keep trying to get smart so I can have that feeling agen. Its good to no things and be smart and I wish I new evrything in the hole world. I wish I could be smart agen rite now. If I could I would sit down and reed all the time. Anyway I bet Im the frist dumb persen in the world who found out some thing inportent for sience. I did somthing but I dont remembir what. So i gess its like I did it for all the dumb pepul like me in Warren and all over the world. Goodby Miss Kinnian and dr Strauss and evrybody... P.S. please tel prof Nemur not to be such a grouch when pepul laff at him and he would have more frends. Its easy to have frends if you let pepul laff at you. Im going to have lots of frends where I go. P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.
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Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)
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I used to discourage walls around our hearts, but as i grow i am soon realising, walls are a good thing - It keeps out all those not willing to climb the extra mile and you know what, it's a real shortcut to cutting out alot of bullshit.
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Nikki Rowe
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If you ever reed this Miss Kinnian dont be sorry for me. Im glad I got a second chanse in life like you said to be smart because I lerned alot of things that I never even new were in this werld and Im grateful I saw it all even for a littel bit.
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Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)
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...And then it occurred to him to wonder whether you actually knew what a seduction involves. The details, I mean. I spread my wicked left hand over my face, but surely slices of crimson tide showed between my fingers. "You're right," I said. "That you're sorry?" "That I'm sorry." "What shall I tell your father?" said Eldric. "Don't tell him anything!" "You teased it out of me," said Eldric."You ought to answer. It has your fatehr worried, actually." "Tell him I read alot." I could almost hear the curling lion's smile in Eldric's voice.
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Franny Billingsley (Chime)
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NERD'S LIFE Can we skip a lecture by our will With all work done but still Want to have some time to chill People say we have alot many skills Don't you think we also want some thrill When people call us boring it really kills Sometimes, we want to go uphills Enjoying a fish that's on a grill We Also become ill But attend classes by having pills Oh, the empty sheets we love to fill We do help others with goodwill But the work load makes us feel like working in a mill. Waiting for the energy to get refill Because we have some promises to fulfill
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Zulaikha Nadeem
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I'm not who I was.With everyday you took a little..and over time the little turned into alot. I lost who I was. I was broken. And it wasen't until there was only a little piece of the real me left...that I realised I couldn't do it anymore. Thank god the little bit left of me was hope...hope for me.
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Anonymous
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I prayed to a mystery. Sometimes I was simply aware of the mystery. I saw a flash of it during a trip to New York that David and I took before we were married. We were walking on a busy sidewalk in Manhattan. I don't remember if it was day or night. A man with a wound on his forehead came toward us. His damp, ragged hair might have been clotted with blood, or maybe it was only dirt. He wore deeply dirty clothes. His red, swollen hands, cupped in half-fists, swung loosely at his sides. His eyes were focused somewhere past my right shoulder. He staggered while he walked. The sidewalk traffic flowed around him and with him. He was strange and frightening, and at the same time he belonged on the Manhattan sidewalk as much as any of us. It was that paradox -- that he could be both alien and resident, both brutalized and human, that he could stand out in the moving mass of people like a sea monster in a school of tuna and at the same time be as much at home as any of us -- that stayed with me. I never saw him again, but I remember him often, and when I do, I am aware of the mystery. Years later, I was out on our property on the Olympic Peninsula, cutting a path through the woods. This was before our house was built. After chopping through dense salal and hacking off ironwood bushes for an hour or so, I stopped, exhausted. I found myself standing motionless, intensely aware of all of the life around me, the breathing moss, the chattering birds, the living earth. I was as much a part of the woods as any millipede or cedar tree. At that moment, too, I was aware of the mystery. Sometimes I wanted to speak to this mystery directly. Out of habit, I began with "Dear God" and ended with "Amen". But I thought to myself, I'm not praying to that old man in the sky. Rather, I'm praying to this thing I can't define. It was sort of like talking into a foggy valley. Praying into a bank of fog requires alot of effort. I wanted an image to focus on when I prayed. I wanted something to pray *to*. but I couldn't go back to that old man. He was too closely associated with all I'd left behind.
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Margaret D. McGee
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Self Help Guru's, what they should really say: I could change your life with my three-point plan, but you already have to have alot of money and a good support system around you. My plan does not work for broken shattered people. It only works for obtusely bored rich people... Sort of it works. I am not helping the homeless!
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Eddie Pepitone
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Homicide thats a big word means i killed a guy. seven years. im sprung in four for keep'n my nose clean." (18) the hich hiker is saying this to the truck driver and i think it puts alot of meanning to the book because the truck driver just realized that he could have just died. it adds suspense to the story and makes it kinda scary.
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John Steinbeck
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Most people are willing to promise you a lot. A few are those who can promise you a little, just as much as they can.
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Ljupka Cvetanova
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Right person suffers a lot than wrong person in that place where injustice is called justice.
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Faisal Nawaz Maitlo
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Loving someone who does not love you back hurts, alot, i know. It is liking seeing these pair of shoes at the retail store which do not fit you. Chances are, if you buy them knowing they are a small size, you will have blisters and probably hurt your toes. What i mean is, not everyone will love you back, therefore, never shove your love down anyone's throat. Accept it and appreciate the ones that do love you.
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Nomthandazo Tsembeni
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If you ever reed this Miss Kinnian dont be sorry for me. Im glad I got a second chanse in life like you said to be smart because I lerned alot of things that I never even new were in this werld and Im grateful I saw it all even for a littel bit. And Im glad I found out all about my family and me. It was like I never had a family til I remembird about them and saw them and now I know I had a family and I was a person just like evryone.
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Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)
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You dwell on the past, you can't move forward. Spend too much time planning for the future and you just push yourself backwards, or you stay stagnant in the same place all your life." His eyes lock on mine. "Live in the moment," he says as if making a serious point, "where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you'll get wherever it is you'r going alot faster and with less bumps in the road along the way.
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J.A. Redmerski (The Edge of Never (The Edge of Never, #1))
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Holland took the question very seriously; he'd thought alot about it. Look at meteorology, he told them. The weather never settles down. It never repeats itself exactly. It's essentially unpredictable more than a week or so in advance. And yet we can comprehend and explain almost everything that we see up there. We can identify important features such as weather fronts, jet streams, and high-pressure systems. We can understand their dynamics. We can understand how they interact to produce weather on a local and regional scale. In short, we have a real science of weather-without full prediction. And we can do it because prediction isn't the essence of science. The essence is comprehension and explanation. And that's precisely what Santa Fe could hope to do with economics and other social sciences, he said: they could look for the analog of weather fronts-dynamical social phenomena they could understand and explain.
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M. Mitchell Waldrop (Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos)
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So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them. I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.
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Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
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EVERYTHING SMELLED LIKE POISON. Two days after leaving Venice, Hazel still couldn’t get the noxious scent of eau de cow monster out of her nose. The seasickness didn’t help. The Argo II sailed down the Adriatic, a beautiful glittering expanse of blue; but Hazel couldn’t appreciate it, thanks to the constant rolling of the ship. Above deck, she tried to keep her eyes fixed on the horizonβ€”the white cliffs that always seemed just a mile or so to the east. What country was that, Croatia? She wasn’t sure. She just wished she were on solid ground again. The thing that nauseated her most was the weasel. Last night, Hecate’s pet Gale had appeared in her cabin. Hazel woke from a nightmare, thinking, What is that smell? She found a furry rodent propped on her chest, staring at her with its beady black eyes. Nothing like waking up screaming, kicking off your covers, and dancing around your cabin while a weasel scampers between your feet, screeching and farting. Her friends rushed to her room to see if she was okay. The weasel was difficult to explain. Hazel could tell that Leo was trying hard not to make a joke. In the morning, once the excitement died down, Hazel decided to visit Coach Hedge, since he could talk to animals. She’d found his cabin door ajar and heard the coach inside, talking as if he were on the phone with someoneβ€”except they had no phones on board. Maybe he was sending a magical Iris-message? Hazel had heard that the Greeks used those aΒ lot. β€œSure, hon,” Hedge was saying. β€œYeah, I know, baby. No, it’s great news, but—” His voice broke with emotion. Hazel suddenly felt horrible for eavesdropping. She would’ve backed away, but Gale squeaked at her heels. Hazel knocked on the coach’s door. Hedge poked his head out, scowling as usual, but his eyes were red. β€œWhat?” he growled. β€œUm…sorry,” Hazel said. β€œAre you okay?” The coach snorted and opened his door wide. β€œKinda question is that?” There was no one else in the room. β€œI—” Hazel tried to remember why she was there. β€œI wondered if you could talk to my weasel.” The coach’s eyes narrowed. He lowered his voice. β€œAre we speaking in code? Is there an intruder aboard?” β€œWell, sort of.” Gale peeked out from behind Hazel’s feet and started chattering. The coach looked offended. He chattered back at the weasel. They had what sounded like a very intense argument. β€œWhat did she say?” Hazel asked. β€œA lot of rude things,” grumbled the satyr. β€œThe gist of it: she’s here to see how it goes.” β€œHow what goes?” Coach Hedge stomped his hoof. β€œHow am I supposed to know? She’s a polecat! They never give a straight answer. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got, uh, stuff…” He closed the door in her face. After breakfast, Hazel stood at the port rail, trying to settle her stomach. Next to her, Gale ran up and down the railing, passing gas; but the strong wind off the Adriatic helped whisk it away. Hazel
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Rick Riordan (The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus, #4))
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I imagine you not telling me to whisper. I imagine you not saying oh don't say this literally. You want me to evoke as opposed to mere describing. You want me to be an invisible scribe that an octoepoose was hiding. I'm not sure if my facial features are an autograph that your Picasso smile is signing. Infamous for the mirror I shook when my sock puppets were pining? I am not just a fish that you gave wings to! I don't simply flop in the air whenever you brush some mannequinn's hair. There is a reason for the bad timing. Exquisite imbalances. A child enjoying the pink sky. I won't say that is my clue! Playing The Beatles on a kazoo is beautiful oooh ooooh Your laughter is a woman with alot of eyeballs on her stomach that pretends that she doesn't see the colors of all them songs. In the pre dawn hours we dance with delusions and illusions. The eternal seamstress does not care for Frakenstein's dress(she still loves our unique caress ) She loves and laughs despite some so-called scientist. Where is that emperor and his nakedness! Darling, our atoms need never split. We compliment in so many ways that all our night's and days have become one swirling sunrise/sunset that only true lovers can scoff at(those who shhhhh) The flower is not passive or apologetic. It blooms through the fractured net. Floating magnetic(eep eeep) You are not just some seductress. You are the leader of an elite group of intergalactic seductress impersonators who reveal corruption but then choose to love. We embrace conclusions that make the puddle heart awake with ethereal drum beat gongs. You think of a heroic poodle in the dark. We both know that the trapeze artist that followed us was not a cliche. He smelled differently. He had never met a floating lady that showed him how to appreciate a symphony without taking away his love for a good rock n roll melody. I am not sure I can only whisper of such realities. I am not sure I can only whisper of such realities.-
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Junipurr- Sometimes Trudy
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Life always get busy. There is always alot more to do. It helps to define what is important for your life.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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I.m clearing out the wreakage of my soul and it has been a hard job there's alot to it all.There's things I've used and things I've abused. But I refuse to give in 'there is a time to mend.
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Tonya M Faris