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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
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All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan (Spanish Edition))
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
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Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students.
"Donβt let it worry you," said Ron. "Itβs me. Iβm extremely famous.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7))
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
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The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
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I'm not young enough to know everything.
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J.M. Barrie (The Admirable Crichton)
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Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
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I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
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J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
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I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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J.D. Salinger (Franny and Zooey)
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He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy...
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3))
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Iβm just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody elseβs. Iβm sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. Itβs disgusting.
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J.D. Salinger (Franny and Zooey)
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When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
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I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1))
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Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
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How do you feel, Georgie?" whispered Mrs. Weasley.
George's fingers groped for the side of his head.
"Saintlike," he murmured.
"What's wrong with him?" croaked Fred, looking terrified. "Is his mind affected?"
"Saintlike," repeated George, opening his eyes and looking up at his brother. "You see...I'm HOLEY, Fred, geddit?
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7))
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I'm going to keep going until I succeed β or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7))
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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J.D. Salinger (Franny and Zooey)
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From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5))
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To live will be an awfully big adventure.
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
β
An Unbreakable Vow?" said Ron, looking stunned. "Nah, he canβt have.... Are you sure?"
"Yes Iβm sure," said Harry. "Why, what does it mean?"
"Well, you canβt break an Unbreakable Vow..."
"Iβd worked that much out for myself, funnily enough.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6))
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Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?
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J.M. Coetzee
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The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
β
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J.M. Barrie (The Little White Bird)
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Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands!
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J.M. Barrie
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I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I'm not there.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2))
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Harry - you're a great wizard, you know."
"I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him.
"Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1))
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Just because itβs taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4))
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Never is an awfully long time.
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
β
Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.
β
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
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All children, except one, grow up.
β
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan (Spanish Edition))
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Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
β
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J.M. Barrie
β
Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.
β
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
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So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan (Tuffy Story Books))
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Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.
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J.D. Salinger
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God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
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J.M. Barrie
β
Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily.
"I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
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Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
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J.M. Barrie (The Little Minister)
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Build a house?" exclaimed John.
"For the Wendy," said Curly.
"For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!"
"That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
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We are all failures- at least the best of us are.
β
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J.M. Barrie
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No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.
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J.D. Robb (Innocent in Death (In Death, #24))
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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.
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J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
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Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
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Iβm never wearing them," Ron was saying stubbornly. "Never."
"Fine," snapped Mrs. Weasley. "Go naked. And, Harry, make sure you get a picture of him. Goodness knows I could do with a laugh.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4))
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I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I . . . I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not . . . for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating.
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Sarah J. Maas (Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1))
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If you're a monster, I'm a monster.
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Sarah J. Maas (Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, #4))
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You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry.
"No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7))
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I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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J.D. Salinger (Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction)
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You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
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There are no gods left to watch, Iβm afraid. And there are no gods left to help you now, Aelin Galathynius.'
Aelin smiled, and Goldryn burned brighter. 'I am a god.
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Sarah J. Maas (Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7))
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I canβt explain what I mean. And even if I could, Iβm not sure Iβd feel like it.
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J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
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I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean Iβve left schools and places I didnβt even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I donβt care if itβs a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know Iβm leaving it. If you donβt you feel even worse.
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J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
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J.M. Barrie
β
I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.
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J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
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So Iβm your huntress and thief?β His hands slid down to cup the backs of my knees as he said with a roguish grin, βYou are my salvation, Feyre.
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
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A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.
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Henri J.M. Nouwen
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Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?β asked Scrimgeour.
βNo, Iβm not,β retorted Hermione. βIβm hoping to do some good in the world!
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7))
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I am a happy camper so I guess Iβm doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
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J. Richard Lessor
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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
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J.M. Barrie
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If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
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J.M. Barrie
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I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
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Ah" said Dumbledore gently, "Yes I thought we might hit that little snag!"
"Snag?" said Fudge, his voice still vibrating with joy. "I see no snag, Dumbledore!"
"Well," said Dumbledore apologetically, "I'm afraid I do."
"Oh, really?"
"Well it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to -- come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course -- but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5))
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I'm not going to be murdered,' Harry said out loud.
'That's the spirit, dear,' said his mirror sleepily.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3))
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What is your name?" she murmured.
He cocked an eyebrow at her and then went back to staring at his brother. "I'm the evil one, in case you haven't figured it out."
"I wanted your name, not your calling."
"Being a bastard's more of a compulsion, really. And it's Zsadist. I am Zsadist.
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J.R. Ward (Lover Eternal (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #2))
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I'm not married,β he said softly, βbecause I can't stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul.
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Sarah J. Maas (Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1))
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Hello, Minister!" bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in awful discomfort. "Did I mention I'm resigning?
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7))
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Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.
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Henri J.M. Nouwen
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Who said anything about shame?" She gestured down to her naked body, even though it was covered by the blanket. "Honestly, I'm surprised you're not strutting about, boasting to everyone. I certainly would be if I'd tumbled me.
"Does your love for yourself know no bounds?"
"Absolutely none.
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Sarah J. Maas (Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2))
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I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan and Wendy)
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Just always be waiting for me.
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
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Can't stay long, Mother," he said. "I'm up front, the prefects have got two compartments to themselves-"
"Oh, are you a prefect, Percy?" said one of the twins, with an air of great surprise. "You should have said something, we had no idea."
"Hang on, I think I remember him saying something about it," said the other twin. "Once-"
"Or twice-"
"A minute-"
"All summer-"
"Oh, shut up," said Percy the Prefect.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1))
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I love you. And I'm going to keep loving you even after you don't know I exist.
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J.R. Ward (Lover Unbound (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #5))
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Fred, you next," the plump woman said.
"I'm not Fred, I'm George," said the boy. "Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother? Can't you tell I'm George?"
"Sorry, George, dear."
"Only joking, I am Fred," said the boy and off he went.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1))
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There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
β
I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eaterβ'
'She's foul enough to be oneβ¦'
'Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters', said Sirius with a wry smile. 'I know sheβs a nasty piece of work though'.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5))
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Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?"
Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
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Dear Diary,
Oh, it's all too much to explain and you wouldn't believe it anyway. I'm going to bed.
Bonnie
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L.J. Smith (Dark Reunion (The Vampire Diaries, #4))
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I'm beginning to think cookies is a code word for something else."
"Maybe it is." He tugged on my bag again as he took a confident step back, forcing me down another step. "And just think about it. If cookie was a code word, whatever it symbolizes, it's been in your mouth, sweetheart.
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J. Lynn (Wait for You (Wait for You, #1))
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Iβm thinking,β he said, following the flick of my tongue over my bottom lip, βthat I look at you and feel like Iβm dying. Like I canβt breathe. Iβm thinking that I want you so badly I canβt concentrate half the time Iβm around you, and this room is too small for me to properly bed you. Especially with the wings.
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
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I'm going to talk to her."
"And how's that going to go? You're just going to walk up to her and say, 'Hey, I know you've never seen me before, but I'm your dad. Oh, and guess what? You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland!
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J.R. Ward (Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #1))
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Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.
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J.M. Barrie
β
Enough! We have enough enemies as it is! There are worse things out there to face!"
Celaena slowly turned to him, her face splattered with blood and eyes blazing bright. "No, there aren't," she said. "Because I'm here now.
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Sarah J. Maas (Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2))
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Colpo di fulmine. The thunderbolt, as Italians call it. When love strikes someone like lightning, so powerful and intense it canβt be denied. Itβs beautiful and messy,
cracking a chest open and spilling their soul out for the world to see. It turns a person inside out, and thereβs no going back from it. Once the thunderbolt hits, your life is
irrevocably changed.
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J.M. Darhower (Sempre (Sempre, #1))
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What's that?" he snarled, staring at the envelope Harry was still clutching in his hand. "If it's another form for me to sign, you've got another -"
"It's not," said Harry cheerfully. "It's a letter from my godfather."
"Godfather?" sputtered Uncle Vernon. "You haven't got a godfather!"
"Yes, I have," said Harry brightly. "He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy....
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3))
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If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
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As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place.
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Henri J.M. Nouwen
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For once, he slept first. She lay in the dark, listening to him breathe, stealing a little of his warmth as her own body cooled. Since he was asleep, she stroked his hair.
"I love you," she murmured. "I love you so much, I'm stupid about it."
With a sigh, she settled down, closed her eyes, and willed her mind to empty.
Beside her, Roarke smiled into the dark.
He never slept first.
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J.D. Robb (Ceremony in Death (In Death, #5))
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And tell Rowan,β Aelin said, fighting her own sob, βthat I'm sorry I lied. But tell him it was all borrowed time anyway. Even before today, I knew it was all just borrowed time, but I still wish we'd had more of it.β She fought past her trembling mouth. βTell him he has to fight. He must save Terrasen, and remember the vows he made to me. And tell him . . . tell him thank youβfor walking that dark path with me back to the light.
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Sarah J. Maas (Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass, #5))
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I'm Draco Malfoy, I'm Draco, I'm on your side!"
Draco was on the upper landing, pleading with another masked Death Eater. Harry Stunned the Death Eater as they passed: Malfoy looked around, beaming, for his savior, and Ron punched him from under the cloak. Malfoy fell backward on top of the Death Eater, his mouth bleeding, utterly bemused.
"And that's the second time we've saved your life tonight, you two-faced bastard!" Ron yelled.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7))
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Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was. So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder.
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
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There aren't any syringes." Red Sox came over and held a sterile pack out. When she tried to take it from him, he kept a grip on the thing. "I know you'll use this wisely."
"Wisely?" She snapped the syringe out of his hand. "No, I'm going to poke him in the eye with it. Because that's what they trained me to do in medical school.
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J.R. Ward (Lover Unbound (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #5))
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Fatβ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her.
I mean, is βfatβ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is βfatβ worse than βvindictiveβ, βjealousβ, βshallowβ, βvainβ, βboringβ or βcruelβ? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? Iβm not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brainβ¦
I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadnβt seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? βYouβve lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!β
βWell,β I said, slightly nonplussed, βthe last time you saw me Iβd just had a baby.β
What I felt like saying was, βIβve produced my third child and my sixth novel since I last saw you. Arenβt either of those things more important, more interesting, than my size?β But no β my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book: finally, something to celebrate!
Iβve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I donβt want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; Iβd rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny β a thousand things, before βthinβ. And frankly, Iβd rather they didnβt give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.
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J.K. Rowling
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Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, "Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody." ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence.
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Henri J.M. Nouwen
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All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, βOh, why canβt you remain like this for ever!β This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.
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J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
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The staircase that was revealed was lit with a soft red glow.
I feel like I'm walking down into a porn movie," V muttered as they took the steps with care.
Wouldn't that require more black candles for you," Zsadist cracked.
At the bottom of the landing, they looked left and right down a corridor carved out of stone, seeing row after row of...black candles with ruby color flames.
I take that back," Z said, eyeing the display.
We start hearing chick-a-wow-wow shit," V cut in, "can I start calling you Z-packed?"
Not if you want to keep breathing.
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J.R. Ward (Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7))
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I really feel that we're not giving children enough credit for distinguishing what's right and what's wrong. I, for one, devoured fairy tales as a little girl. I certainly didn't believe that kissing frogs would lead me to a prince, or that eating a mysterious apple would poison me, or that with the magical "Bibbity-Bobbity-Boo" I would get a beautiful dress and a pumpkin carriage. I also don't believe that looking in a mirror and saying "Candyman, Candyman, Candyman" will make some awful serial killer come after me. I believe that many children recognize Harry Potter for what it is, fantasy literature. I'm sure there will always be some that take it too far, but that's the case with everything. I believe it's much better to engage in dialog with children to explain the difference between fantasy and reality. Then they are better equipped to deal with people who might have taken it too far.
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J.K. Rowling
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The front door flew open, and Mary shot out of the house, jumping off the porch, not even bothering with the steps to the ground. She ran over the frost-laden grass in her bare feet and threw herself at him, grabbing on to his neck with both arms. She held him so tightly his spine cracked.
She was sobbing. Bawling. Crying so hard her whole body was shaking.
He didn't ask any questions, just wrapped himself around her.
I'm not okay," she said hoarsely between breaths. "Rhage...I'm not okay.
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J.R. Ward (Lover Eternal (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #2))
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The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish, the birds would still be on their way south, the deers would still be drinking out of that water hole, with their pretty antlers and they're pretty, skinny legs, and that squaw with the naked bosom would still be weaving that same blanket. Nobody's be different. The only thing that would be different would be you. Not that you'd be so much older or anything. It wouldn't be that, exactly. You'd just be different, that's all. You'd have an overcoat this time. Or the kid that was your partner in line the last time had got scarlet fever and you'd have a new partner. Or you'd have a substitute taking the class, instead of Miss Aigletinger. Or you'd heard your mother and father having a terrific fight in the bathroom. Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some wayβI can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it.
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J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
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V was half way down the hall when he heard a yelp. He hightailed it back, barging through the door. βWhat? Whatβs β¦β
βIβm going bald!β
V whipped back the shower curtain and frowned. βWhat are you talking about? Youβve still got your hairβ¦β
βNot my head! My body, you idiot! Iβm going bald!β
Vishous glanced down. Butchβs torso and legs were shedding, a rush of dark brown fuzz pooling around the drain.
V started laughing. βThink of it this way. At least you wonβt have to worry about shaving your back as you get old, true? No manscaping for you.β
He was not surprised when a bar of soap came firing at him.
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J.R. Ward (Lover Revealed (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #4))
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I will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a cloud loves bats and as a range loves braes. I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong. I will love you as a battlefield loves young men and as peppermints love your allergies, and I will love you as the banana peel loves the shoe of a man who was just struck by a shingle falling off a house. I will love you as a volunteer fire department loves rushing into burning buildings and as burning buildings love to chase them back out, and as a parachute loves to leave a blimp and as a blimp operator loves to chase after it.
I will love you as a dagger loves a certain personβs back, and as a certain person loves to wear dagger proof tunics, and as a dagger proof tunic loves to go to a certain dry cleaning facility, and how a certain employee of a dry cleaning facility loves to stay up late with a pair of binoculars, watching a dagger factory for hours in the hopes of catching a burglar, and as a burglar loves sneaking up behind people with binoculars, suddenly realizing that she has left her dagger at home. I will love you as a drawer loves a secret compartment, and as a secret compartment loves a secret, and as a secret loves to make a person gasp, and as a gasping person loves a glass of brandy to calm their nerves, and as a glass of brandy loves to shatter on the floor, and as the noise of glass shattering loves to make someone else gasp, and as someone else gasping loves a nearby desk to lean against, even if leaning against it presses a lever that loves to open a drawer and reveal a secret compartment. I will love you until all such compartments are discovered and opened, and until all the secrets have gone gasping into the world. I will love you until all the codes and hearts have been broken and until every anagram and egg has been unscrambled.
I will love you until every fire is extinguised and until every home is rebuilt from the handsomest and most susceptible of woods, and until every criminal is handcuffed by the laziest of policemen. I will love until M. hates snakes and J. hates grammar, and I will love you until C. realizes S. is not worthy of his love and N. realizes he is not worthy of the V. I will love you until the bird hates a nest and the worm hates an apple, and until the apple hates a tree and the tree hates a nest, and until a bird hates a tree and an apple hates a nest, although honestly I cannot imagine that last occurrence no matter how hard I try. I will love you as we grow older, which has just happened, and has happened again, and happened several days ago, continuously, and then several years before that, and will continue to happen as the spinning hands of every clock and the flipping pages of every calendar mark the passage of time, except for the clocks that people have forgotten to wind and the calendars that people have forgotten to place in a highly visible area. I will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where we once we were so close that we could slip the curved straw, and the long, slender spoon, between our lips and fingers respectively.
I will love you until the chances of us running into one another slip from slim to zero, and until your face is fogged by distant memory, and your memory faced by distant fog, and your fog memorized by a distant face, and your distance distanced by the memorized memory of a foggy fog. I will love you no matter where you go and who you see, no matter where you avoid and who you donβt see, and no matter who sees you avoiding where you go. I will love you no matter what happens to you, and no matter how I discover what happens to you, and no matter what happens to me as I discover this, and now matter how I am discovered after what happens to me as I am discovering this.
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Lemony Snicket
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Oh, man there's a marathon of Beaches running tomorrow night. Can we go after ten so I can see it once all the way through?"
Everyone in the room turned to the blond-and-black haired guy, who was propped in the corner, massive arms over his chest.
What," he said. "Look, it's not Mary Tyler Moore, 'kay? So you can 't give me shit."
Vishous, the one with the black glove on his hand, glared across the room. "It's worse than Mary Tyler Moore. And to call you and idiot would be an insult to half-wits around the world."
Are you kidding me? Bette Midler rocks. And I love the ocean. Sue me."
Vishous glanced at the king. "You told me I could beat him. You promised."
As soon as you come home," Wrath said as he got to his feet, "we'll hang him up by his armpits in the gym and you can use him as a punching bag."
Thank you, baby Jesus."
Blond-and-Black shook his head. "I swear, one of these days I'm going to leave."
As one, the Brothers all pointed to the open door and let silence speak for itself.
You guys suck.
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J.R. Ward (Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7))