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Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.
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Martin Amis (The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007)
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Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.
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Amy Sedaris (I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence)
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Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.
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Louisa May Alcott (Little Women (Little Women, #1))
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You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you.
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Cassandra Clare (Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3))
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Everybody is a main character to someone...
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Amy Harmon (Making Faces)
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She is catalyst.
She is chaos.
I can see why he loves her.
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Amie Kaufman (Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1))
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I should have told you I loved you every day. I should have given you the stars.
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Amie Kaufman (Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1))
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I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.
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Amy Tan
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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
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Amy Carmichael
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Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?
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Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club)
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Give me the Love that leads the way
The Faith that nothing can dismay
The Hope no disappointments tire
The Passion that'll burn like fire
Let me not sink to be a clod
Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God
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Amy Carmichael
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You loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldnβt be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation.
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Amy Harmon (Making Faces)
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The need for intimacy with the Creator never left us; it was embedded in our very nature.
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Ami Loper (Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God)
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It's hard to come to terms with the fact that you aren't going to be loved the way you want to be loved.
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Amy Harmon (Making Faces)
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Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.
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Amy Sedaris (Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People)
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Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
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Amy Bloom
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There isn't heartache if there hasn't been joy. I wouldn't feel loss if there hadn't been love.
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Amy Harmon (Making Faces)
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Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.
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Amy Tan (The Hundred Secret Senses)
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Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.
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Amy Poehler (Yes Please)
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I had feared that love would make me vulnerable. Instead I felt empowered.
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Amy Plum (Die for Me (Revenants, #1))
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Everyone has a moment when they discover they love Amy Poehler.
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Mindy Kaling (Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns))
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True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would have otherwise never existed.
And so we endure. We have faith that there is purpose. We hope for things we can't see. We believe there are lessons in loss, power in love, and that we have within us the potential for a beauty so magnificent, our bodies can't contain it.
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Amy Harmon (Making Faces)
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You don't love people at their best, sweetheart. You just love them because you can't help it.
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Amy Lane (Keeping Promise Rock (Promises, #1))
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I loved the idea that people could discover things. That you could be the person to see something first. Or see something that nobody else had been able to.
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Morgan Matson (Amy & Roger's Epic Detour)
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Thank you for being here, my beauty. Mon ange. My Kate. Your utterly, Vincent.
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Amy Plum (Die for Me (Revenants, #1))
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He said "Love...as I have loved you." We cannot love too much.
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Amy Carmichael
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And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over.
-Rose
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Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club)
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Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love and allegiance. At the very apex of callousness, you will find only ones and zeros.
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Amie Kaufman (Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1))
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I promised myself that if you came home I wouldnβt be afraid to tell you how I felt. But Iβm still afraid. Because I canβt make you love me back.
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Amy Harmon (Making Faces)
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Celebrate who you are in your deepest heart. Love yourself and the world will love you.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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You don't mention death when it's hovering near someone you love. You don't want t attract the reaper's attention.
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Amie Kaufman (These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1))
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Iβd always loved the chance to become someone else for a few hours. Someone for whom the words had been written, every gesture and emotion plotted, and the ending figured out. Almost like life. Just without the surprises.
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Morgan Matson (Amy & Roger's Epic Detour)
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From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.
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Amy Tan (Saving Fish from Drowning)
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I have loved you every moment of every day, and I will love you until I cease to be. Bird, man, or king, I love you, and I will always love you.
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Amy Harmon (The Bird and the Sword (The Bird and the Sword Chronicles, #1))
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I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.
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Amy Engel (The Book of Ivy (The Book of Ivy, #1))
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A God-given longing must have a God-given fulfillment
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Ami Loper (Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God)
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I will never want anything as much as I want you. I will never love anything as much as I love you.
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Amy A. Bartol (Inescapable (The Premonition, #1))
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Do you think thereβs any way someone like Ambrose could fall in love with someone like me?β...
βOnly if heβs lucky.β
βOh, Bailey.β Fern shook her head, but loved him for saying itβ¦and even more for meaning it.
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Amy Harmon (Making Faces)
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We may with confidence approach the throne. We may walk in the garden with Him once again.
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Ami Loper (Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God)
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Anything less than true companionship with God leaves us feeling on the fringes, close but not close enough.
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Ami Loper (Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God)
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I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
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Amy Tan (The Hundred Secret Senses)
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River Song: Use the stabilisers!
The Doctor: It doesn't have stabilisers!
River Song: The blue switches!
The Doctor: The blue ones don't do anything, they're just... blue!
River Song: Yes they're blue: they're the blue stabilisers! [presses the button and the TARDIS indeed stabilises] See?
The Doctor: Yeah? Well, it's boring now, isn't it? They're boring-ers! They're blue... boring-ers!
Amy: Doctor, how come she can fly the TARDIS?
The Doctor: You call that flying the TARDIS? [scoffs] Ha!
River Song: Okay, I've mapped the probability vectors, done a foldback on the temporal isometry, charted the ship to its destination and... [presses a button, the cloister bell clangs] parked us right alongside.
The Doctor: Parked us? But we haven't landed!
River Song: Of course we've landed; I just landed her.
The Doctor: But it didn't make the noise.
River Song: What noise?
The Doctor: You know, the... [does an impression of the TARDIS materialisation sound]
River Song: It's not supposed to make that noise. You leave the brakes on.
The Doctor: Yes, well, it's a brilliant noise. I love that noise.
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There are laws. There are rules. And when you break them, there are consequences. Laws of nature and laws of life. Laws of love and laws of death.
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Amy Harmon (The Law of Moses (The Law of Moses, #1))
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I could tell them about the different kinds of rain, pouring rain that's perfect for when you want to stay inside and watch a movie or read, or piercing rain that feels like needles on your skin, or soft summer rain that makes your first kiss with your first love all the sweeter. ~ Amy
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Beth Revis (Across the Universe (Across the Universe, #1))
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Be willing to be a place where God can let His dreams for you grow.
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Ami Loper (Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God)
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When we are more aware of our sin than of the blood of Jesus Christ which removes our sin, relationship will remain superficial.
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Ami Loper (Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God)
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Letting yourself get hurt isnβt brave, love. Brave is protecting others from hurt.
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Amie Kaufman (This Shattered World)
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It was for the purpose of restoring intimate fellowship with mankind that Jesus came.
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Ami Loper (Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God)
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The Lord delights in you, He is blessed by you, and when you feel the joy of His presence, you are tasting a bit of the joy He has in you.
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Ami Loper (Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God)
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What is waiting for us if we would simply let go of the seemingly safe ledge to which we are and dive into all God is and all He has for us?
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Ami Loper (Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God)
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Being able to hear the voice of my Lord fosters trust that gives me the power to stand toe-to-toe against any opponent and speak Godβs truth into reality, calling His Kingdom to come into my situation.
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Ami Loper (Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God)
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I know I love her.
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I know I miss her.
I know very little else
Save
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This:
That every story needs its monster
and that everybody deserves a second chance.
And that I am
AIDAN.
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Amie Kaufman (Obsidio (The Illuminae Files, #3))
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Hold onto the string, love, until the current shifts and we can be together again.
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Amy A. Bartol (Indebted (The Premonition, #3))
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I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against
The want of you;
Of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.
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Amy Lowell (The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell)
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I can't promise you an ordinary experience, Kate. I wish I could transform myself into a normal man and be there for you, always, without the trauma that defines my life as "the walking dead." Since that isn't possible, I can only reassure you that I will do everything in my power to make it up to you. To give you more than a normal boyfriend could.
I have no idea what that will mean, exactly, but I'm looking forward to finding out. With you.
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Amy Plum (Die for Me (Revenants, #1))
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Hopefully as you get older, you start to learn how to live with your demon. Itβs hard at first. Some people give their demon so much room that there is no space in their head or bed for love. They feed their demon and it gets really strong and then it makes them stay in abusive relationships or starve their beautiful bodies. But sometimes, you get a little older and get a little bored of the demon. Through good therapy and friends and self-love you can practice treating the demon like a hacky, annoying cousin. Maybe a day even comes when you are getting dressed for a fancy event and it whispers, βYou arenβt pretty,β and you go, βI know, I know, now let me find my earrings.β Sometimes you say, βDemon, I promise you I will let you remind me of my ugliness, but right now I am having hot sex so I will check in later.
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Amy Poehler (Yes Please)
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I feel his love most strongly when I am confident in his love.
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Ami Loper (Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God)
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Since the moment of the Fall, God has never stopped searching us out.
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Ami Loper (Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God)
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We all want reassurance that the love we crave is a love we can find, or that will find us.
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Ami Loper (Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God)
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When I hear that still, small Voice wooing me and asking me to drop everything and spend time with Him, I need to be willing to yield.
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Ami Loper (Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God)
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The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning βwithβ and βstrongβ β He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love.
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Amy Carmichael (Kohila : the shaping of an Indian nurse)
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I wish I could say this journey is an easy one. Itβs not. As easy as it is to fall in love, it takes effort to make a relationship grow, to continue making the effort to connect, to speak and to listen.
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Ami Loper (Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God)
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Would you risk your life for love?
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Amy Plum
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If you donβt love, then nobody gets hurt. Itβs easy to leave. Itβs easy to lose. Itβs easy to let go.
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Amy Harmon (The Law of Moses (The Law of Moses, #1))
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Being a hearer and a doer of the written Word (James 1:22) makes us able to handle more of the spoken word of God.
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Ami Loper (Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God)
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Self love is the elixir of an immortal heart.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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All that matters is I love you, and the thought of you safe is the only thing keeping me going
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Amie Kaufman (Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1))
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Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.
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Amy Sherman-Palladino
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Youβre what I want. No other angel, or man, will ever stand above you in my esteem, in my regard, or in my love.
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Amy A. Bartol (Inescapable (The Premonition, #1))
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My deepest desire is to be so intimately acquainted with Him that when we finally meet one another face to face, He and I will not be strangers, no not us!
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Ami Loper (Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God)
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Love is a drop in the ocean of what I feel for her. Love is a single sun in a heaven full of stars.
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Amie Kaufman (Aurora Burning (The Aurora Cycle #2))
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Now that you are here--now that we're together-- I can't imagine going back to the life I had before. I don't know what I'd do if I lost you now. I love you too much. ~Vincent Delacroix, Until I Die (ARC), Amy Plum p. 71
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Amy Plum (Until I Die (Revenants, #2))
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Whatever happens, remember that I will love you forever,β he says. βEven if my spirit is dispersed and my consciousness released to the universe... whatever is left of me will never stop loving you.
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Amy Plum (If I Should Die (Revenants, #3))
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Maybe this is all love is and all it will ever be-- boys fucking girls and pretending it's love, girls getting fucked and pretending they like it, saying "I love you, too," and wanting to throw up.
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Amy Reed (Beautiful)
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It would be easier to forget you," he says to me, "and these past few weeks we've had together. It would be easier if I could hate you. But the sad truth is, I will more than likely love you for the rest of my life.
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Amy Ewing (The Jewel (The Lone City, #1))
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When the light that kisses the back of her eyes were birthed, her ancestors were not yet born. How many human lives have ended in the time it took that light to reach her?
How many people have loved only to have lost? How countless, the hopes that have died?
But not this one.
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Amie Kaufman (Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1))
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Please donβt drive drunk, okay? Seriously. Itβs so fucked up. But by all means, walk drunk. That looks hilarious. Everyone loves to watch someone act like they are trying to make it to safety during a hurricane.
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Amy Poehler (Yes Please)
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You're you,' he repeats, his eyes full of grief. 'You're the same girl who crashed on this planet with me, who I dragged through forests and over mountains, who climbed through a shipwreck full of bodies to save my life. You're the same girl I loved, and I love you now.
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Amie Kaufman (These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1))
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So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. the pain that cut my spirit loose. I will hold that pain in my hand until it becomes hard and shiny, more clear. And then my fierceness can come back, my golden side, my black side. I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, because this is the nature of two tigers. But I will win and giver her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter.
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Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club)
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We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love? A few kisses and you will be powerless. Money? What for? To gratify your desires. Glory? What coems after it all? Death! Death alone is certain.
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Guy de Maupassant (Bel-Ami)
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Kate, Iβll say it like this. Vincent is my best friend. Thereβs not a person in this world Iβm closer to. But for the past year, I have betrayed him in my heart every single day because I want for myself what he loves the very most.
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Amy Plum (If I Should Die (Revenants, #3))
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I've been in love with you since you helped me bury that spider in my garden, and you sang with me like we were singing βAmazing Graceβ instead of βThe Itsy, Bitsy Spider.β I've loved you since you quoted Hamlet like you understood him, since you said you loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldn't be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation. I read and re-read your letters to Rita because I felt like you'd opened up a little window into your soul, and the light was pouring out with every word. They weren't even for me, but it didn't matter. I loved every word, every thought, and I loved you . . . so much.
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Amy Harmon (Making Faces)
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And so we endure. We have faith that there is purpose. We hope for things we can't see. We believe that there are lessons in loss, power in love, and that we have within us the potential for a beauty so magnificent that our bodies can't contain it.
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Amy Harmon (Making Faces)
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Amy adored both the new look and the new person it allowed her to be. Following the photo shoot, she wore her bruises to the dry cleaner and the grocery store. Most people nervously looked away, but on the rare occasions someone would ask what happened, my sister would smile as brightly as possible, saying, 'I'm in love. Can you believe it? I'm finally, totally in love, and I feel great.
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David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day)
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I know my worth. I embrace my power. I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story. I will. I'll speak and share and fuck and love, and I will never apologize for it. I am amazing for you, not because of you. I am not who I sleep with. I am not my weight. I am not my mother. I am myself. And I am all of you.
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Amy Schumer (The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo)
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Jesus is telling us that redemption is more than having our sins forgiven; it is an intimate relationship He came to restore between us and God. If we are going to live out the first and greatest commandment of loving God completely (Matt. 22:36-37), this is the type of experiential intimacy which ought to be the objective of our lives.
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Ami Loper (Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God)
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I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and Iβve grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place. So letβs peek behind the curtain and hail the others like us. The open-faced sandwiches who take risks and live big and smile with all of their teeth. These are the people I want to be around. This is the honest way I want to live and love and write.
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Itβs called Yes Please because it is the constant struggle and often the right answer. Can we figure out what we want, ask for it, and stop talking? Yes please. Is being vulnerable a power position? Yes please. Am I allowed to take up space? Yes please. Would you like to be left alone? Yes please. I love saying βyesβ and I love saying βplease.β Saying βyesβ doesnβt mean I donβt know how to say no, and saying βpleaseβ doesnβt mean I am waiting for permission. βYes pleaseβ sounds powerful and concise. Itβs a response and a request. It is not about being a good girl; it is about being a real woman. Itβs also a title I can tell my kids. I like when they say βYes pleaseβ because most people are rude and nice manners are the secret keys to the universe.
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Amy Poehler (Yes Please)
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One day it may feel as if energy and enthusiasm are quenched, feelings dried up and emotions scorched, love and affection tangled in a harsh and uninviting setting. Nothing seems to grow anymore. No seed. No flowers. No foreseeable hope. No conceivable prospects. Any blossom of expectation seems to have become an illusion and life appears to have come to a standstill. If no seed of loving care is sown in the untilled, abandoned land, no bud can come into flower. Singer Amy Winehouse felt like lying fallow in the ground of a wasteland "with tears dry, dying a hundred times, going back to black" and leaving eventually for a place of ultimate sorrow and heartbreak, for a point of no return. ( βAmour en fricheβ )
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wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything.
I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore.
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Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club)
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I learned to make things not matter, to put a seal on my hopes and place them on a high shelf, out of reach. And by telling myself that there was nothing inside those hopes anyway, I avoided the wounds of deep disappointment. The pain was no worse than the quick sting of a booster shot. And yet thinking about this makes me ache again. How is it that as a child I knew I should have been loved more? Is everyone born with a bottomless emotional resevoir?
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Amy Tan (The Hundred Secret Senses)
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I want you, Hank. I'm much more of an animal than you think. I wanted you from the first moment I saw you - and the only thing I'm ashamed of is that I did not know it. I did not know why, for two years, the brightest moments I found were the ones in your office, where I could lift my head to look up at you. I did not know the nature of what I felt in your presence, nor the reason. I know it now. That is all I want, Hank. I want you in my bed - and you are free of me for all the rest of your time. There's nothing you'll have to pretend - don't think of me, don't feel; don't care - I do not want your mind, your will, your being or your soul, so long as it's to me you will come for that lowest one of your desires. I am an animal who wants nothing but the sensation of pleasure which you despise - but I want it from you. You'd give up amy height of virtue for it , while I - I haven't any to give up. There's none I seek or wish to reach. I am so low that I would exchange the greatest sight of beauty in the world for the sight of your figure in the cab of a railroad engine. Amd seeing it, I would not be able to see it indifferently. You don't have to fear that you're now dependent on me. It's I who will depend on any whim of yours. You'll have me anytime you wish, anywhere, on any terms. Did you call it the obscenity of my talent? It's such that it gives you a safer hold on me than on any other property you own. You may dispose of me as you please - I'm not afraid to admit it - I have nothing to protect from you and nothing to reserve. You think that this is a threat to your achievement, but it is not to mine. I will sit at my desk, and work, and when the things around me get hard to bear, I will think that for my reward I will be in your bed that night. Did you call it depravity? I am much more depraved than you are: you hold it as your guilt, and I - as my pride. I'm more proud of it than anything I've done, more proud than of building the Line. If I'm asked to name my proudest attainment, I will say: I have slept with Hank Rearden. I had earned it.
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If they want to flirt or initiate a friendship, they should carefully avoid giving the impression they are taking the initiative; men do not like tomboys, nor bluestockings, nor thinking women; too much audacity, culture, intelligence, or character frightens them.
In most novels, as George Eliot observes, it is the dumb, blond heroine who outshines the virile brunette; and in The Mill on the Floss, Maggie tries in vain to reverse the roles; in the end she dies and it is blond Lucy who marries Stephen. In The Last of the Mohicans, vapid Alice wins the heroβs heart and not valiant Cora; in Little Women kindly Jo is only a childhood friend for Laurie; he vows his love to curly-haired and insipid Amy.
To be feminine is to show oneself as weak, futile, passive, and docile. The girl is supposed not only to primp and dress herself up but also to repress her spontaneity and substitute for it the grace and charm she has been taught by her elder sisters. Any self-assertion will take away from her femininity and her seductiveness.
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At lunch I turned my phone on to check my messages. Georgia always sent me a few inane texts during the day, and sure enough there were two messages from her: one complaining about her physics teacher and a second, also obviously sent from her phone: I love you, baby. V.
I wrote her back: I thought I told you to buzz off last night, you creep-o French stalker guy.
Her response came back immediately: As if! Your beet-red cheeks this morning suggest otherwise ... liar! You're so into him.
I groaned and was about to turn my phone off when I saw that there was a third text from UNKNOWN. Clicking on it, I read: Can I pick you up from school? Same place, same time?
I texted back: How'd you get my number?
Called myself from your phone while you were in the restaurant's bathroom last night. Warned you we were stalkers!
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Amy Plum (Die for Me (Revenants, #1))
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Hello, old friend. And here we are. You and me, on the last page. By the time you read these words, Rory and I will be long gone. So know that we lived well and were very happy. And above all else, know that we will love you always. Sometimes I do worry about you though. I think once we're gone you won't be coming back here for awhile. And you might be alone. Which you should never be. Don't be alone, Doctor. And do one more thing for me. There's a little girl waiting in a garden. She's going to wait a long while, so she's going to need a lot of hope. Go to her. Tell her a story. Tell her that if she's patient, the days are coming that she'll never forget. Tell her she'll go to see and fight pirates. She'll fall in love with a man who'll wait two thousand years to keep her safe. Tell her she'll give hope to the greatest painter who ever lived. And save a whale in outer space. Tell her, this is the story of Amelia Pond. And this is how it ends.
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Steven Moffat
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Please donβt hate you??!! I hate that I love you. Loving you made me waste a year of my life. Loving
you made me be passionate about nothing but you. Loving you made me take risks I never would have
otherwise. Loving you made me give it up to you. Loving you made me neglect my parents and Amy.
Loving you made me not care that my grandma just died. Loving you made me turn out bitter and
hopeless like her. Loving you made me hate myself for being dumped by you. Loving you made me
deluded, irrational, inconsiderate, and a liar. And because I love you, youβre always going to haunt me.
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Daria Snadowsky (Anatomy of a Boyfriend (Anatomy, #1))
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Will gave a short, disbelieving laugh. "It's true," he said. "I am no hero."
"No," Tessa said. "You are a person, just like me." His eyes searched her face, mystified; she held his hand tighter, lacing her fingers with his. "Don't you see, Will? You're a person like me. You are like me. You say the things I think but never say out loud. You read the books I read. You love the poetry I love. You make me laugh with your ridiculous songs and the way you see the truth of everything. I feel like you can look inside me and see all the places I am odd or unusual and fit your heart around them. For you are odd and unusual in the same way." With the hand that was not holding his, she touched his cheek, lightly. "We are the same."
Will's eyes fluttered closed; she felt his lashes against her fingertips. When he spoke again, his voice was ragged but controlled. "Don't say those things, Tessa. Don't say them."
"Why not?"
"You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I amβI am catastrophically in love with you.
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Cassandra Clare (Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3))
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Either way, we both agree that ambivalence is a key to success. I will say it again. Ambivalence is key. You have to care about your work but not the result. You have to care about how good you and how good you feel, but now about how good people think you are or how good people think you look I realize this is extremely difficult. I am not saying I am particularly good at it. I'm like you. Or maybe you'er better at this and I am. You will never climb Career Mountain and get to the top and shout, 'I made it!' You will rarely feel done or complete or even successful Most people I know struggle with that complicated soup of feeling slighted on one hand and like a total fraud on the other. Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table, and I have learned that my ego is just as rude and loud and hungry as everyone else's. It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more. Success is filled with MSG.
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Amy Poehler (Yes Please)
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Kate,
I'm not always the best at expressing myself to you, so I'm taking advantage of the fact that I will be completely unresponsive when you read this, and therefore incapable of messing things up.
I want to thank you for giving me a chance. When I first saw you, I knew I had found something incredible. And since then all I've wanted was to be with you as much as possible.
When I thought I had lost you, I was torn between wanting you back and wanting the best for youβwanting you to be happy. Seeing you so miserable during the weeks we were apart gave me the courage to fight for us . . . to find a way for things to work. And seeing you happy again in the days we've been back together makes me think I did the right thing.
I can't promise you an ordinary experience, Kate. I wish I could transform myself into a normal man and be there for you, always, without the trauma that defines my life as "the walking dead." Since that isn't possible, I can only reassure you that I will do everything in my power to make it up to you. To give you more than a normal boyfriend could. I have no idea what that will mean, exactly, but I'm looking forward to finding out. With you.
Thank you for being here, my beauty. Mon ange. My Kate.
Yours utterly,
Vincent
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Amy Plum (Die for Me (Revenants, #1))
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GGRRROOCCCCK...
Ian's knees buckled. The rock outcropping shook the ground, sending a spew of grayish dust that quickly billowed around them.
Shielding his eyes, he spotted Amy standing by the figurine, which was now moving toward her. She was in shock, her backpack on the ground by her feet.
"Get back!" he shouted.
Ian pulled Amy away and threw her to the ground, landing on top of her. Gravel showered over his back, embedding into his hair and landing on the ground like a burst of applause.
His second though was that the shirt would be ruined. And this was the shock of it-that his first thought had not been about the shirt. Or the coin. Or himself.
It had been about her.
But that was not part of the plan. She existed for a purpose. She was a tactic, a stepping stone. She was...
"Lovely," he said.
Amy was staring up at him, petrified, her eyelashes flecked with dust. Ian took her hand, which was knotted into a fist. "Y-y-you don't have to do that," she whispered.
"Do what?" Ian asked.
"Be sarcastic. Say things like 'lovely.' You saved my life. Th-thank you."
"My duty," he replied. He lowered his head and allowed his lips to brush hers. Just a bit.
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Peter Lerangis (The Sword Thief (The 39 Clues, #3))