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How did it get so late so soon?
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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."
(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)
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Neil Gaiman
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I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.
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AnaΓ―s Nin (Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of AnaΓ―s Nin, 1931-1932)
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How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
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Dr. Seuss
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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AnaΓ―s Nin (HENRY AND JUNE)
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When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.
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Julia Glass (Three Junes)
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He is beauty, inside and out.
He is the silver lining in a world of darkness.
He is my light.
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Marie Lu (Prodigy (Legend, #2))
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Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
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Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets)
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There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.
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AnaΓ―s Nin (HENRY AND JUNE)
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Then Day reaches out and touches my hand with his. He encloses it in a handshake. And just like that, I am linked with him again, I feel the pulse of our bond and his- tory and love through our hands, like a wave of magic, the return of a long-lost friend. Of something meant to be. The feeling brings tears to my eyes. Perhaps we can take a step forward together.
βHi,β he says. βIβm Daniel.β
βHi,β I reply. βIβm June.
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Marie Lu (Champion (Legend, #3))
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Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days donβt last forever, you know. But Iβll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.
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Marie Lu (Champion (Legend, #3))
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What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal.
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Marie Lu (Legend (Legend, #1))
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I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.
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AnaΓ―s Nin (Henry & June)
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Iβve been searching a long time for something I think I lost.
I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.
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Marie Lu (Champion (Legend, #3))
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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AnaΓ―s Nin (Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of AnaΓ―s Nin, 1931-1932)
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You drive me insane June. You're the scariest, most clever, bravest person I know, and sometimes I can't catch my breath because I'm trying so hard to keep up. There will never be another like you. You realize that, don't you? Billions of people will come and go in this world, but there will never be another like you.
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Marie Lu (Champion (Legend, #3))
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June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.
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Marie Lu (Legend (Legend, #1))
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How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.
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June Ahern
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."
[Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]
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Robert Hughes
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He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.
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Hannah Harrington (Saving June)
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."
[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]
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Jorge Luis Borges
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It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.
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Maud Hart Lovelace (Betsy-Tacy and Tib (Betsy-Tacy, #2))
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It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."
[I saw hate in a graveyard -- Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]
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βHi,β I reply. βI'm June.
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Marie Lu (Champion (Legend, #3))
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What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.
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AnaΓ―s Nin (Henry & June)
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Elections only happen in two ways," Reyna said. "Either the legion raises someone on a shield after a major success on the battlefield-and we haven't had any major battles-or we hold a ballot on the evening of June 24, at the Feast of Fortuna. That's in five days."
Percy frowned. "You have a feast for tuna?
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Rick Riordan (The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus, #2))
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There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your books, engrave it on the floor, whatever."
Octavian read the scroll. "This says, 'Go to Alaska. Find Thanatos and free him. Come back by sundown on June twenty-fourth or die'."
"Yes," Mars said. "Is that not clear?"
"Well, my lord...usually prophecies are unclear. They're wrapped in riddles. They rhyme, and..."
Mars casually popped another grenade off his belt. "Yes?"
"The prophecy is clear!" Octavian announced. "A quest!
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Rick Riordan (The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus, #2))
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Oh please," said Zacharias Smith, rolling his eyes and folding his arms. "I don't think Expelliarmus is exactly going to help us against You-Know-Who, do you?"
"I've used it against him," Harry said quietly. "It saved my life last June.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5))
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Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. For example now, I hate the bank and everything connected with it. I also hate Dutch paintings, penis-sucking, parties, and cold rainy weather. But I am much more preoccupied with loving.
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AnaΓ―s Nin (Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of AnaΓ―s Nin, 1931-1932)
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I hope,β he replies softly, βto get to know you again. If you are open to it. There is a fog around you that I would like to clear away.
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Marie Lu (Champion (Legend, #3))
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I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, DβHolbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
[Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]
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Thomas Jefferson (Letters of Thomas Jefferson)
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Roads Go Ever On
Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
By streams that never find the sea;
Over snow by winter sown,
And through the merry flowers of June,
Over grass and over stone,
And under mountains in the moon.
Roads go ever ever on,
Under cloud and under star.
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen,
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green,
And trees and hills they long have known.
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with weary feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
The Road goes ever on and on
Out from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone.
Let others follow, if they can!
Let them a journey new begin.
But I at last with weary feet
Will turn towards the lighted inn,
My evening-rest and sleep to meet.
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J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)
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You threw everything away."I bring a hand up to touch her face,to wipe the rain from her eyelashes."Your entire life-your beliefs...Why would you do that for me?"
June has never looked more beautiful than she does now,unadorned and honest,vulnerable yet invincible.When lightning streaks over the sky,her dark eyes shine like gold."Because you were right,"she whispers."About all of it.
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Marie Lu (Legend (Legend, #1))
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I want to make my own discoveriesβ¦β¦.penetrate the evil which attracts me
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AnaΓ―s Nin (Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of AnaΓ―s Nin, 1931-1932)
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The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]
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He loves you, really he does. He'd love you even if it destroyed him. He matches you.
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Marie Lu (Champion (Legend, #3))
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Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.
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AnaΓ―s Nin (Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of AnaΓ―s Nin, 1931-1932)
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The first time I saw you, when you stepped into that Skiz ring against Kaede, I thought you were the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen. I could've watched you forever. The first time I kiss you..." That memory overpowers me now, taking me by surprise. I remember every last detail of it, almost enough to push away the lingering images of the Elector pulling June to him. "Well, that might as well have been my first kiss ever.
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Marie Lu (Prodigy (Legend, #2))
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Monday, June 9: People think they know you. They think they know how you're handling a situation. But the truth is no one knows. No one knows what happens after you leave them, when you're lying in bed or sitting over your breakfast alone and all you want to do is cry or scream. They don't know what's going on inside your head--the mind-numbing cocktail of anger and sadness and guilt. This isn't their fault. They just don't know. And so they pretend and they say you're doing great when you're really not. And this makes everyone feel better. Everybody but you.
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William H. Woodwell Jr.
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You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my mind, I make a silent promise to my brother's killer.
I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine.
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Marie Lu (Legend (Legend, #1))