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There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
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Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic (Practical Magic, #1))
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When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?
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Shel Silverstein (A Light in the Attic)
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Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4))
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Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.
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Leslye Walton (The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender)
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and you invented me
and I invented you
and that's why we don't
get along
on this bed
any longer.
you were the world's
greatest invention
until you
flushed me
away.
now it's your turn
to wait for the touch
of the handle.
somebody will do it
to you,
bitch,
and if they don't
you will -
mixed with your own
green or yellow or white
or blue
or lavender
goodbye.
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Charles Bukowski (Love Is a Dog from Hell)
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Love makes us such fools.
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Leslye Walton (The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender)
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Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.
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Leslye Walton (The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender)
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I love you, Hermione,β said Ron, sinking back, rubbing his eyes wearily.
Hermione turned faintly pink, but merely said, βDonβt let Lavender hear you saying that.β
βI wonβt,β said Ron into his hands. βOr maybe I will . . . then sheβll ditch me . . .
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6))
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This isn't your average book, it's pure gold: Twelve Fail-Safe Ways to Charm Witches. Explains everything you need to know about girls. IF only I'd had this last year I'd have known exactly how to get rid of Lavender and I would've known how to get going with... Well Fred and George gave me a copy, and I've learned a lot. You'd be surprised, it's not all about wandwork, either.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7))
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He lifted the lavender soap to his hair, and she squeaked.
βYou donβt use that in your hair,β she hissed, jolting from her perch to reach for one of the many hair tonics lining the little shelf above the bath. βRose, lemon verbena, or β¦β She sniffed the glass bottle. βJasmine.β She squinted down at him.
He was staring up at her, his green eyes full of the words he knew he didnβt have to say. Do I look like I care what you pick?
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Sarah J. Maas (Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, #4))
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And that might just be the root of the problem: we're all afraid of each other, wings or no wings.
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Leslye Walton (The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender)
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Love, as most know, follows its own timeline. Disregarding our intentions or well rehearsed plans.
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Leslye Walton (The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender)
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Why would you be given wings if you weren't meant to fly?
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Leslye Walton (The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender)
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While there is tea, there is hope.
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Arthur Wing Pinero (Sweet Lavender - A Comedy in Three Acts.)
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She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.
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Leslye Walton (The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender)
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By this point Viviane Lavender had loved Jack Griffith for twelve years, which was far more than half of her life. If she thought of her love as a commodity and were to, say, eat it, it would fill 4,745 cherry pies. If she were to preserve it, she would need 23,725 glass jars and labels and a basement spanning the length of Pinnacle Lane.
If she were to drink it, she'd drown.
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Leslye Walton (The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender)
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I found it ironic that I should be blessed with wings and yet feel so constrained, so trapped. It was because of my condition, I believe, that I noticed life's ironies a bit more often than the average person. I collected them: how love arrived when you least expected it, how someone who said he didn't want to hurt you eventually would.
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Leslye Walton (The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender)
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To many, I was myth incarnate, the embodiment of a most superb legend, a fairy tale. Some considered me a monster, a mutation. To my great misfortune, I was once mistaken for an angel. To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost. But I knew the truthβdeep down, I always did.
I was just a girl.
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Leslye Walton (The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender)
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Fate. As a child, that word was often my only companion. It whispered to me from dark corners during lonely nights. It was the song of the birds in spring and the call of the wind through bare branches on a cold winter afternoon. Fate. Both my anguish and my solace. My escort and my cage.
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Leslye Walton (The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender)
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Ron, you're making it snow," said Hermione patiently, grabbing his wrist and redirecting his wand away from the ceiling from which, sure enough, large white flakes had started to fall. Lavender Brown, Harry noticed, glared at Hermione from a neighboring table through very red eyes, and Hermione immediately let go of Ron's arm.
"Oh yeah," said Ron, looking down at his shoulders in vague surprise." Sorry...looks like we've all got horrible dandruff now...."
He brushed some of the fake snow off Hermione's shoulder. Lavender burst into tears. Ron looked immensely guilty and turned his back on her.
"We split up," he told Harry out of the corner of his mouth. "Last night. When she saw me coming out of the dormitory with Hermione. Obviously she couldn't see you, so she thought it had just been the two of us."
"ah," said Harry. "Well - you don't mind it's over, do you?" "No," Ron admitted. "It was pretty bad while she was yelling, but at least I didn't have to finish it."
"Coward," said Hermione, though she looked amused. "Well, it was a bad night for romance all around. Ginny and Dean split up too, Harry."
Harry thought there was a rather knowing look in her eye as she told him that, but she could no possibly know that his insides were suddenly dancing the conga.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6))