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Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.
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Gayle Forman (If I Stay (If I Stay, #1))
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Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.
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Mia Couto
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Sometimes an understanding silence was better than a bunch of meaningless words.
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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Rose only hangs out with guys and psychopaths," said Mia.
"Well," he said cheerfully, "since I'm both a psychopath and a guy, that would explain why we're such good friends.
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Richelle Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))
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We'll tell our secrets to the dark"-Adam
"Okay"-Mia
"So let's hear another of your irrational fears"-Adam
"I'm scared of losing you"-Mia
"I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen"-Adam
"It still scares me"- Mia
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Gayle Forman (Where She Went (If I Stay, #2))
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I crossed my arms over my chest. "Are you lost, little girl? The elementary school's over on west campus."
A pink flush spread over her cheeks. "Don't you ever touch me again. You screw with me, I'll screw you right back."
Oh man, what an opening that was.
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Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1))
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I lost my heart to you. And, Bree, in case you're wondering, I don't ever want it back.
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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So...Mason, Eddie, and Mia went to Spokane to hunt Strigoi?"
"Yes."
"Holy shit. Why didn't you go with them? Seems like something you'd do."
I resisted the urge to smack him. "Because I'm not insane! But I'm going to go get them before they do something even stupider.
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Richelle Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))
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Try to believe that maybe more light shines out of those who have the most cracks.
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living fucking worthwhile.
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Mia Asher (Arsen: A Broken Love Story)
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Someday β¦ when we're old and gray, I'm going to look at you lying in bed beside me, just like this, and I'm going to look into your eyes and know that it's only ever been you. And that is going to be the great joy of my life.
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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Youβll always be sad about this,β Mia said softly. βBut it doesnβt mean you made the wrong choice. Itβs just something that you have to carry.
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Celeste Ng (Little Fires Everywhere)
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Do something that scares you everyday.
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Melina Marchetta (Saving Francesca)
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I stand by my logic though. I think love is a concept, and each person has an individual word for what sums it up for them. My word for love is Bree.
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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I'm afraid to love you. I'm afraid that you'll leave and that I'll go back to being alone again. Only it will be a hundred times worse because I'll know what I'm missing. I can'tβ¦β He sucked in a shaky breath. βI want to be able to love you more than I fear losing you, and I don't know how. Teach me, Bree. Please teach me. Don't let me destroy this.
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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You brought the silence,
The most beautiful sound Iβd ever heard.
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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..the loudest words are the ones we live.
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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I knew I loved her β fiercely and with every part of my heart, even the broken parts, even the parts that felt unworthy and without value. And maybe those parts most of all.
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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Break the spine of one of my books and I break yours.
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Mia James (By Midnight (Ravenwood Mysteries, #1))
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It bothers you, doesnβt it?β Mia said suddenly. βI think you canβt imagine. Why anyone would choose a different life from the one youβve got. Why anyone might want something other than a big house with a big lawn, a fancy car, a job in an office. Why anyone would choose anything different than what youβd choose.
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Celeste Ng (Little Fires Everywhere)
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I know I'm probably the last person you want to see right now, but I thought if I sat on your porch, you wouldn't be scared. You wouldn't be alone.
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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I CAN SPEAK. I JUST LIKE TO SHOW OFF MY NICE PENMANSHIP.
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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Each night before I fall asleep, I make it a point to turn to my wife and silently say "Only you, only ever you". And her love slips quietly around me, holding me, anchoring me, reminding me that the loudest words are the ones we live.
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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Love can destroy you.
Love can erase you.
Love can heal you.
Love can reinvent you,
And, if you are lucky enough,
Love can make you whole again.
That's what Cathy has done to me.
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Mia Asher (Arsen: A Broken Love Story)
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I didnβt know enough to dream you, Bree, but somehow you came true anyway. How did that happen?β He rubbed his nose along mine, pausing and then pulling back again. βWho read my mind and knew exactly what I wanted, even when I didnβt?
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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Maybe there was no right or wrong, no black or white, only a thousand shades of gray when it came to pain and what we each held ourselves responsible for.
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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Loving another person always means opening yourself up for hurt
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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All I wanted was for you to be okay. All I wanted was to help you. I would've done anything."
She drops her chin to her chest. "Yes, I know. You wanted to rescue me."
"Damn, Mia. You say that like it's a bad thing.
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Gayle Forman (Where She Went (If I Stay, #2))
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You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.
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Junot DΓaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)
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I miss the Stella girls telling me what I am. That I'm sweet and placid and accommodating and loyal and nonthreatening and good to have around. And Mia. I want her to say, "Frankie, you're silly, you're lazy, you're talented, you're passionate, you're restrained, you're blossoming, you're contrary."
I want to be an adjective again. But I'm a noun.
A nothing. A nobody. A no one.
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Melina Marchetta (Saving Francesca)
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...not all great acts of courage are obvious to those looking in from the outside.
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.
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Mia Hamm
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If I were going to name my blade," Mia said thoughtfully, "I'd call it 'Fluffy.
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Jay Kristoff (Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle, #1))
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Sebenarnya aku tidak bermaksud menghindarimu. Aku hanya berusaha menghindari perasaanku sendiri dengan menghindarimu (Mia)
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Ilana Tan
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Friends are the family you get to choose for yourself.
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Mia Sheridan (Leo)
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I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn't have helped him today. But I would do anything to have been able to give him one.
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Gayle Forman (If I Stay (If I Stay, #1))
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I want to be able to love you more than I fear losing you
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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Sogni dΓ³ro, mia bella ragazza,β he mumbled, closing his eyes. "Sweet dreams my beautiful girl.
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J.M. Darhower (Sempre (Sempre, #1))
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And sometimes, that's all it takesβone person who's willing to listen to your heart, to the sound no one else has ever tried to hear.
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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Mia's smile is melting chocolate. It's a kick-ass guitar solo. It's everything good in this world.
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Gayle Forman (Where She Went (If I Stay, #2))
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Sii la mia schiava dβamore,β I purr.
Her expression is guarded. βWhat did you say?β
An amused smile pulls at my lips. βIβll never tell.β Somehow, I donβt think sheβd agree to be my love slave anyway.
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Lisa Desrochers (Personal Demons (Personal Demons, #1))
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And now I am here, as alone as I've ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it's suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out.
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Gayle Forman (If I Stay (If I Stay, #1))
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I'm here for you. I'm here because of you. I'm here because you saw me, not just with your eyes, but with your heart. I'm here because you wanted to know what I had to say and because you were right...everyone does need friends.
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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I donβt know what circumstances occurred in your life for you to build such a strong brick wall around your heart, but I do intend to tear it down." ~Cole
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Tina Carreiro (Power of the Moon (Power of the Moon, #1))
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Oh God, Frankie, I breathe in rhythm with that man. You think that's not my flesh and blood after all these years?
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Melina Marchetta (Saving Francesca)
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I want to believe every single lie of hers so I can gladly continue living in denial. I love her that fucking much.
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Mia Asher (Arsen: A Broken Love Story)
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Ti amo, mia bella ragazza. Per sempre." "Sempre?" She asked. Cracking a smile, he brushed his finger softly across her lips. "Always and forever
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J.M. Darhower
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Sticks and stones and fists CAN break your bones, but it's the words that break your heart.
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Mia Sheridan (Leo)
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I realized that people's reactions had more to do with them, more to do with who they were, than anything about me
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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How do you teach a man who has lost everything, not to fear it happening again?
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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Today may be a very bad day, but tomorrow may be the best day of your life. You just have to hang on until you get there.
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Mia Sheridan (Grayson's Vow)
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You can keep the glory. I'm just here for the blood.
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Jay Kristoff (Godsgrave (The Nevernight Chronicle, #2))
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I'm going to kiss you now, Evie, and when I do, it's going to mean that you're mine. I don't care how far away from each other we are. You. Are. Mine. I'll wait for you. And I want you to wait for me. Promise me you won't let anyone else touch you. Promise me you'll save yourself for me.
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Mia Sheridan (Leo)
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Bad things don't happen to people because they deserve for them to happen. It just doesn't work that way. It's just⦠life. And no matter who we are, we have to take the hand we're dealt, crappy though it may be, and try our very best to move forward anyway, to love anyway, to have hope anyway⦠to have faith that there's a purpose to the journey we're on.
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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This is that burden I was talking about, Bree. This is what the burden of loving me looks like.β
βLoving you isn't a burden. Loving you is an honor and a joy, Archer.
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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Mia and I had been together for more than two years, and yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever, the kind that, had we met five years later and had she not been some cello prodigy and had I not been in a band on the rise - or had our lives not been ripped apart by all this -I was pretty sure it would've been.
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Gayle Forman (Where She Went (If I Stay, #2))
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Falling in love with the wrong person is easy. Falling in love with the right person is easier. But falling in love with your soul mate is easiest.
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Mia Asher (Arsen: A Broken Love Story)
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I will prove to you that forever is not just a word, not just a measurement of unending time, but that forever is a place where I will treasure your heart.
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Mia Sheridan (Leo)
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I do go to hell. Every day. For you.
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Mia Sheridan (Kyland)
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...bravo...' Mister Kindly said,'..if only I had hands to applaud..'
Mia smacked her backside. 'I'd settle for lips to kiss my sweet behind.
'...I would have to find it first...'
Arses are like fine wine, Mister Kindly. Better too little than too much.
' ...a beauty and a philosopher. be still my beating heart...' The not-cat looked down at its translucent chest '...O,wait...
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Jay Kristoff (Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle, #1))
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I am the war you cannot win.
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Jay Kristoff (Darkdawn (The Nevernight Chronicle, #3))
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he kissed me hard. "Promise me. Promise me you'll spend New Year's with me next year," he whispered into my ear.
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Gayle Forman (If I Stay (If I Stay, #1))
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Looking at the past can be painful, but you can either run from it, numb it, or you can learn from it.
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Mia Sheridan (Leo)
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Maybe having something good and then having to let it go is more painful that never knowing what you're missing
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Mia Sheridan (Stinger)
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Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.
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Mia Hamm
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It suddenly occurred to me that Archer Hale had taught himself an entire language, but hadn't had a single person to talk to. Until me.
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible...and enjoying everything in between.
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Mia Farrow
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The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.
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Mia Hamm
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Michael has never cried during a Broadway show. Except in that scene where Tarzan's ape father is brutally murdered.
And that was only because he was laughing so hard.
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Meg Cabot (Princess Mia (The Princess Diaries, #9))
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Quem viveu pregado a um sΓ³ chΓ£o nΓ£o sabe sonhar outros lugares.
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Mia Couto (JesusalΓ©m)
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Your friends are at the house.'
I sit up, straight. 'Who'?
'I don't know. Weird people. The Sullivan girl, whose father got the Gosford police to pick you up.'
'Siobhan?'
'And another one who's making cups of tea for everyone, and keeping the boy who's telling Luca fart jokes away from the girl who says he's "the last bastion of patriarchal poor taste".'
'Justine, Thomas and Tara.'
And the drug fiend, Jimmy, is keeping Mia calm and the Trombal boy's rung about ten times. I don't like his manner on the phone.'
'You won't like any guy's manner on the phone.
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Melina Marchetta (Saving Francesca)
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I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.
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Gayle Forman (If I Stay (If I Stay, #1))
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Love is infinite. There is no beginning and no end. There's no starting point and no finishing line. Love just is. Love is born, grows, matures, and sometimes it dies. But the memory will remain with you for the rest of your breathing hours. You will fall in love, you will fall out of love. But you will love again. You always do.
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Mia Asher (Arsen: A Broken Love Story)
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We stand there for a moment, staring at each other, savoring it. And then all at once, we slam together. Mia's legs are off the ground, wrapped around my waist, her hands dipping in my hair, my hands tangled in hers. And our lips. There isn't enough skin, enough spit, enough time, for the lost years that our lips are trying to make up for as they find each other. We kiss. The electric current switches to high. The lights throughout all of Brooklyn must be surging.
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Gayle Forman (Where She Went (If I Stay, #2))
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He smiled back and put his lips against mine, mouthing, βI love you, too,β against my mouth, as if he was breathing love into my body.
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.
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Mia Kirshner (I Live Here)
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Really, lies are so easy to tell when you don't care anymore, or when you have lost all shame. That is my truth.
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Mia Asher (Arsen: A Broken Love Story)
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The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
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Mia Hamm
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You don't just want to beat a team. You want to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see your face again.
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Mia Hamm
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A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.
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Mia Hamm (Go For the Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life)
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It will only ever be you, Evie.
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Mia Sheridan (Leo)
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Sometimes, you don't even realize anything is wrong until someone comes along and changes you
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Mia Sheridan (Stinger)
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I am a member of the team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
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Mia Hamm
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Did you⦠want me to kiss you yesterday? Did you want me to touch you? His lips parted slightly, and he watched me for my answer like his life depended on it.
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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Youβre my everything, Bree.
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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And secondly, losing your virginity doesn't make you a slut. I slept with your father when I was your age. . . '
'Mia,' my father roared from the other room.
'What? So we're going to lie to her now,?' she shouted back.
He walked in. 'What if your mother finds out? Or my mother?'
'Robert, it was twenty years ago. I don't think there's much they can do.'
He looked at me, pointing a finger. 'No sex for you.' He used the Soup Nazi's accent from Seinfeld.
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Melina Marchetta (Saving Francesca)
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Everyone tells a story about who they are in their own head. That story defines you, dictating all your actions and all your mistakes. If your own story is filled with guilt and fear and self-hatred, life can look pretty miserable. But, if you're very lucky, you might have a person who tells you a better story, one that takes up residence in your soul, speaking louder than the woeful tale of which you've convinced yourself. If you let it speak loudly within your heart, it becomes your passion and your purpose.
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Mia Sheridan (Leo)
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Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.
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Mia Hamm
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Cathy, meeting you was chance, falling in love with you was destiny, and loving you is my reason to exist.
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Mia Asher (Arsen: A Broken Love Story)
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If only I had known that it takes a lot more than love to make a marriage work, then maybe our story would be different.
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Mia Asher (Arsen: A Broken Love Story)
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Parents, she thought, learned to survive touching their children less and less. As a baby Pearl had clung to her; sheβd worn Pearl in a sling because whenever sheβd set her down, Pearl would cry. Thereβd scarcely been a moment in the day when they had not been pressed together. As she got older, Pearl would still cling to her motherβs leg, then her waist, then her hand, as if there was something in her mother she needed to absorb through the skin. Even when she had her own bed, she would often crawl into Miaβs in the middle of the night and burrow under the old patchwork quilt, and in the morning they would wake up tangled, Miaβs arm pinned beneath Pearlβs head, or Pearlβs legs thrown across Miaβs belly. Now, as a teenager, Pearlβs caresses had become rareβa peck on the cheek, a one-armed, half-hearted hugβand all the more precious because of that. It was the way of things, Mia thought to herself, but how hard it was. The occasional embrace, a head leaned for just a moment on your shoulder, when what you really wanted more than anything was to press them to you and hold them so tight you fused together and could never be taken apart. It was like training yourself to live on the smell of an apple alone, when what you really wanted was to devour it, to sink your teeth into it and consume it, seeds, core, and all.
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Celeste Ng (Little Fires Everywhere)
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It's like these fellows who name their swords 'Skullbane' or 'Souldrinker' or somesuch." Tric tied his saltlocks into a matted knot atop his head. "Tossers, all."
"If I were going to name my blade," Mia said thoughtfully, "I'd call it 'Fluffy.'"
Tric snorted with laughter. "Fluffy?"
"Byss, yes," the girl nodded. "Think of the terror you'd instill. Being bested by a foe wielding a sword called Souldrinker... that you could live with. Imagine the shame of having the piss smacked out of you by a blade called Fluffy.
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Jay Kristoff (Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle, #1))
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That pissed me the hell off. I took in a deep breath and blurted out everything without thinking twice. βFuck you! You want to know who I am, Marcus. Well here it goes! I am temperamental, over-sensitive, and outspoken. Iβm honest! I cry at stupid love movies, and I'm a sucker for a romantic novel. I donβt allow people to walk all over me, I have trust issues, and I have insecurities. Iβve slept with four men in my entire life! And the one thing I donβt do is take shit from men who try to act like theyβre better than me as if they donβt have any hidden skeletons! Iβm not keeping shit hidden, how βbout you? You can fuck off. I'll find my own way home. Have a nice fucking life!β - Mia
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E.L. Montes (Disastrous (Disastrous, #1))
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After a minute, I look up and the boy named Leo is staring at me. I stare back, but he doesnΒ΄t look away.
"Why are you looking at me?" I hiss at him, my cheeks turning hot, filled with shame for the exchange he just heard.
He just keeps looking at me for a moment, and then he shrugs. "Because I like your face," he says, but now a corner of his mouth is quirking up in a half smile.
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Mia Sheridan (Leo)
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You must burn. Burn higher.
Burn for everything you have ever wanted. For everything you have ever lost, for every crack in your heart and every fraction of every irreplaceable moment.
Burn high for love.
For fear. For life.
Burn as fast and as long as you can.
You must burn, burn higher.
Because nothing in this world will kill you faster than a dying fire.
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Mia Hollow
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You brought the silence, The most beautiful sound I'd ever heard, Because it was where you were. And now you've taken it away. And all the noises, all the sounds in the world, Aren't loud enough to pierce my broken heart. I look up at the stars, endless and forever, and whisper, Come back to me, Come back to me, Come back to me.
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Mia Sheridan (Archer's Voice)
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They say being in love and loving someone are two different things, right? I mean, you love your best friend, but you love your husband, right? Falling in love with someone is easy. It's loving when the newness has worn off, when life gets tough, when things get in the way, when physical passion is gone, that true love remains. When love can conquer it all.
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Mia Asher (Arsen: A Broken Love Story)
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I think that when enough time has passed, when you've survived that which you didn't imagine you could, there's a dignity in that. Something you can own. A pride in knowing the pain made you stronger. The pain made you fight to succeed. Someday, when I'm living my dreams, I'm going to think of all the things that broke my heart and I'm going to be thankful for them. β TF
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Mia Sheridan (Kyland)
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I think that 95 percent of knowing you're the greatest is all about confidence. You might suspect you're the greatest, you might hope you're the greatest, but if you don't have the balls to proclaim yourself the greatest in bold packaging, and let your critics test you if they dare, then you probably aren't the greatest. Who can resist the guy who really, truly believes in himself?
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Mia Sheridan (Leo)
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My, my," he said, looking the note over. "If only students would write this much in their essays. One of you has considerably worse writing than the other, so forgive me if I get anything wrong here." He cleared his throat."'So, I saw J last night,' begins the person with bad handwriting, to which the response is,'What happened,' followed by no fewer than five question marks. Understandable, since sometimes oneβlet alone fourβjust won't get the point across, eh?" The class laughed, and I noticed Mia throwing me a particularly mean smile. "The first speaker responds:'What do you think happened? We hooked up in one of the empty lounges.'β
Mr. Nagy glanced up after hearing some more giggles in the room. His British accent only added to the hilarity.
"May I assume by this reaction that the use of 'hook up' pertains to the more recent, shall we say,carnal application of the term than the tamer one I grew up with?β
More snickers ensued. Straightening up, I said boldly, "Yes, sir, Mr. Nagy. That would be correct, sir."
A number of people in the class laughed outright.
"Thank you for that confirmation, Miss Hathaway. Now, where was I? Ah yes, the other speaker then asks,'How was it?' The response is,'Good,' punctuated with a smiley face to confirm said adjective. Well. I suppose kudos are in order for the mysterious J, hmmm?'So, like, how far did you guys go?' Uh, ladies," said Mr. Nagy, "I do hope this doesn't surpass a PG rating.'Not very.We got caught.'And again, we are shown the severity of the situation, this time through the use of a not-smiling face.'What happened?' 'Dimitri showed up. He threw Jesse out and then bitched me out.'β
The class lost it, both from hearing Mr. Nagy say "bitched" and from finally getting some participants named.
"Why, Mr.Zeklos, are you the aforementioned J? The one who earned a smiley face from the sloppy writer?
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Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1))