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You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.
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Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides)
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I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need.
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Jeaniene Frost (Halfway to the Grave (Night Huntress, #1))
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The man is moody as hell.β
βI am not moodyββ
βYeah, bro.β Kenji puts his utensils down. βYou are moody. Itβs always βShut up, Kenji.β βGo to sleep, Kenji.β βNo one wants to see you naked, Kenji.β When I know for a fact that there are thousands of people who would love to see me nakedβ
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Tahereh Mafi (Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2))
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I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.
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Rick Moody
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Donβt put your wand there, boy!β roared Moody. βWhat if it ignited? Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!β βWho dβyou know whoβs lost a buttock?β the violet-haired woman asked Mad-Eye interestedly. βNever you mind, you just keep your wand out of your back pocket!β growled Mad-Eye. βElementary wand safety, nobody bothers about it anymoreΒ .Β .Β .β He stumped off toward the kitchen. βAnd I saw that,β he added irritably, as the woman rolled her eyes at the ceiling.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5))
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Asleep by the Smiths
Vapour Trail by Ride
Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel
A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum
Dear Prudence by the Beatles
Gypsy by Suzanne Vega
Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues
Daydream by Smashing Pumpkins
Dusk by Genesis (before Phil Collins was even in the band!)
MLK by U2
Blackbird by the Beatles
Landslide by Fleetwood Mac
Asleep by the Smiths (again!)
-Charlie's mixtape
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Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
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Constant vigilance!
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4))
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You canβt take back texts. If you come off all moody and melancholy in a text, it just sits there in your phone, reminding you of what a drag you are.
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Rainbow Rowell (Fangirl)
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Animals donβt lie. Animals donβt criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
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Betty White (If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't))
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He who kneels the most, stands the best.
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Dwight L. Moody
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Listen, Iβm the freak. Iβm the weirdo. Iβm the troublemaker. I start fights. I let people down. Donβt make Finch mad, whatever you do. Oh, there he goes again, in one of his moods. Moody Finch. Angry Finch. Unpredictable Finch. Crazy Finch. But Iβm not a compilation of symptoms. Not a casualty of shitty parents and an even shittier chemical makeup. Not a problem. Not a diagnosis. Not an illness. Not something to be rescued. Iβm a person.
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Jennifer Niven (All the Bright Places)
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Women were supposed to be the enigmas, but men? Moody, brooding bastards, the lot of them. A woman with PMS had nothing on a man. Where women might get hormonal once a month, men suffered their own brand of PMS on a daily basis.
- Faith
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Maya Banks (Sweet Surrender (Sweet, #1))
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If you're sloppy, that's just fine.
If you're moody, I won't mind.
If you're fat, that's fine with me.
If you're skinny, let it be.
If you're bossy, that's all right.
if you're nasty, I won't fight.
If you're rough, well that's just you.
If you're mean, that's all right too.
Whatever you are is all okay.
I don't like you anyway.
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Shel Silverstein (Every Thing on It)
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They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
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Diana, Princess of Wales
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And do I look like the kind of man that can be intimidated?" barked Uncle Vernon.
"Well..." said Moody, pushing back his bowler hat to reveal his sinisterly revolving eye. Uncle Vernon lept backward in horror and collided painfully with a luggage trolley. "Yes, I'd have to say you do, Dursley.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5))
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He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "'Constant vigilance!' You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls....
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4))
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I think itβs genetically impossible not to be kind of in love with him when you come equipped with a vagina. Itβs just something about all that angsty, moody swagger he has that makes you want to cuddle him up and make him feel better.
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Jay Crownover (Rule (Marked Men, #1))
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Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4))
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It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and drastic unhappiness after The End? Why are sick and dangerous personality types so often shown a passionate and tragic and something to be longed for when those are the very ones you should run for your life from? Think about it. Heathcliff. Romeo. Don Juan. Jay Gatsby. Rochester. Mr. Darcy. From the rigid control freak in The Sound of Music to all the bad boys some woman goes running to the airport to catch in the last minute of every romantic comedy. She should let him leave. Your time is so valuable, and look at these guys--depressive and moody and violent and immature and self-centered. And what about the big daddy of them all, Prince Charming? What was his secret life? We dont know anything about him, other then he looks good and comes to the rescue.
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Deb Caletti (The Secret Life of Prince Charming)
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Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?
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John Green (The Fault in Our Stars)
β
Play to your strengths."
"I havenβt got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself.
"Excuse me," growled Moody, "youβve got strengths if I say youβve got them. Think now. What are you best at?
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4))
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My brother is moody." No shit
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Jennifer L. Armentrout (Obsidian (Lux, #1))
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A morning of awkwardness is far better then a night of loneliness
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Hank Moody
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If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.
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Dwight L. Moody
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She was my friend and I loved her and relied on her, even though there were days when her moodiness and fragility frightened me, because they reminded me of my own tenuous grasp on life.
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Julie Metz (Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal)
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Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn't really matter.
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Dwight L. Moody
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The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it
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Dwight L. Moody
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Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.
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Dwight L. Moody
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Hello, Professor McGonagall,β said Moody calmly, bouncing the ferret still higher.
βWhat β what are you doing?β said Professor McGonagall, her eyes following the bouncing ferretβs progress through the air.
βTeaching,β said Moody.
βTeach β Moody, is that a student?β shrieked Professor McGonagall, the books spilling out of her arms.
βYep,β said Moody.
βMoody, we never use Transfiguration as a punishment!β said Professor McGonagall weakly.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4))
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Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.
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Dwight L. Moody
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If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people.
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Joyce Meyer
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When it comes to emotions, women know how to paint with the full set of oils, while men are busy doodling with crayons.
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Hank Moody (God Hates Us All)
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Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4))
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Everyone sees race, Lex," said Moody. "The only difference is who pretends not to.
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Celeste Ng (Little Fires Everywhere)
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It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.
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Elizabeth Kostova (The Historian)
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We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does itβthat makes no sense. What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.
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Jeffrey Eugenides (The Virgin Suicides)
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The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.
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Dwight L. Moody
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Youβre JOKING!β said Fred Weasley loudly.
The tension that had filled the Hall ever since Moodyβs arrival suddenly broke. Nearly everyone laughed, and Dumbledore chuckled appreciatively.
βI am not joking, Mr. Weasley,β he said, βthough now that you mention it, I did hear an excellent one over the summer about a troll, a hag, and a leprechaun who all go into a bar...β
Professor McGonagall cleared her throat loudly.
βEr β but maybe this is not the time... no...β said Dumbledore.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4))
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I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.
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Dwight L. Moody
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She said one thing and I said another and the next thing I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life in the middle of that conversation.
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Hank Moody
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Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch herβdoubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.
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Thomas Hardy (Tess of the DβUrbervilles)
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Donβt tell me what to feel. All my fucking life, people have been telling me I do things wrong. Iβm always the fucking asshole. I look around and I see everybody else is infinitely more fucked up than I am.
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Hank Moody
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You know why love stories have happy endings?β I shake my head.
βBecause they end too early,β she continues. βThey always end right at the kiss. You never have to see all the bullshit that comes later. You know, Life.
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Hank Moody (God Hates Us All)
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Always remember, Son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it's cattle, or horses, or men; the least government is the best government.
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Ralph Moody
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Character is what you are in the dark.
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Dwight L. Moody
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At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared. The look upon Dumbledore's face as he stared down at the unconscious form of Mad-Eye moody was more terrible than Harry could have ever imagined. There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore's face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the spectacles. There was cold fury in every line of the ancient face; a sense of power radiated from Dumbledore as though he were giving off burning heat.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4))
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Lamb said, βIf you had issues with him, I could have spoken to HR. Arranged an intervention.β He tapped Moodyβs shoulder with his foot. βBreaking his neck without going through your line manager, that shit stays on your record.
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Mick Herron (Slow Horses (Slough House, #1))
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Course Dumbledore trusts you,β growled Moody. βHeβs a trusting man, isnβt he? Believes in second chances. But me β I say there are spots that donβt come off, Snape. Spots that never come off, dβyou know what I mean?
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4))
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Music, moody food
Of us that trade in love.
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William Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra)
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To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ.
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Dwight L. Moody (The Overcoming Life)
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Son, there are times a man has to do things he doesn't like to, in order to protect his family.
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Ralph Moody
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He was
a jerk. Moody. But there had been brief moments that Iβd spent with himβlike a nanosecondβwhen I thought I might have seen the real Daemon. At
least a better Daemon. And that part made me curious. And the other side, the jerky one, yeah, that part didnβt make me curious.
It sort of excited me.
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Jennifer L. Armentrout
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Over thinking ruins moods and kills good vibes.
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SupaNova Slom (The Remedy: The Five-Week Power Plan to Detox Your System, Combat the Fat, and Rebuild Your Mind and Body)
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he's always been moody. Even when he was a baby he was like a cat. All snuggly one second and then the next, he'd be looking at you like he had no idea who you were.
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Gillian Flynn (Dark Places)
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I pop a cassette into the Buick's stereo. It's the Ramones. I turn the volume up high and roll down the windows. The highway air tastes of fumes, but it still feels goddamn good to breathe
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Hank Moody (God Hates Us All)
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...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.
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Marisha Pessl (Special Topics in Calamity Physics)
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Have you tried this shrimp? It's freaking amazing.
Would you get away from me? I hate you.
You're so moody. Just because I kidnapped you and tried to force you to be my girlfriend. I thought you would be over that by now.
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Meg Cabot (Runaway (Airhead, #3))
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β"I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, 'Moody, save all you can.
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Dwight L. Moody
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people seem to be getting dumber and dumber. You know, I mean we have all this amazing technology and yet computers have turned into basically four figure wank machines. The internet was supposed to set us free, democratize us, but all it's really given us is Howard Dean's aborted candidacy and 24 hour a day access to kiddie porn. People... they don't write anymore, they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that. You know, it just seems to me it's just a bunch of stupid people pseudo-communicating with a bunch of other stupid people at a proto-language that resembles more what cavemen used to speak than the King's English.
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Hank Moody
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The person that I want to have everything to do with, wants nothing to do with me.
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Hank Moody
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A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine.
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Dwight L. Moody
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The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
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Dwight L. Moody
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Don't put your wand there, boy! What if it ignited? Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know."
"Who d'you know who's lost a buttock?"
"Never you mind...
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5))
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If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our circumstances.
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Dwight L. Moody
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Faith makes all things possible. Love makes them easy.
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Dwight L. Moody
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I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and everything that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Spirit will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit, ambition and self-seeking, pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God. I also believe that many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray that He would empty us. There must be a n emptying before there can be a filling; and when the heart is turned upside down, and everything that is contrary to God is turned out, then the Spirit will come...
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Dwight L. Moody
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I think this is the ugliest place Iβve ever seen. Not just here. The whole state.β I hear my parents telling me not to be negative, which is funny because Iβve always been the happy one. Itβs Eleanor who was moody. βI used to think that. But then I realized, believe it or not, itβs actually beautiful to some people. It must be, because enough people live here, and they canβt all think itβs ugly.β He smiles out at the ugly trees and the ugly farmland and the ugly kids as if he can see Oz. As if he can really, truly see the beauty thatβs there. In that moment I wish I could see it through his eyes.
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Jennifer Niven (All the Bright Places)
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Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4))
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I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Wooly jumpers, Wellington boot, scarves, thin first, then thick, socks. The low slanting light, the crisp mornings, the chill in my fingers, those last warm sunny days before the rain and the wind. Her moody hues and subdued palate punctuated every now and again by a brilliant orange, scarlet or copper goodbye. She is my true love.
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Alys Fowler
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I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend." Headmistress Northcutt says.
"No," I say. "Not at all." Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine.
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Holly Black (White Cat (Curse Workers, #1))
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We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
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Dwight L. Moody
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There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. ...Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me made this earth. And He planned it so that it would yield every single thing that the people on it need. But He was careful to plan it so that it would only yield up its wealth in exchange for the labor of man. Any man who tries to share in that wealth without contributing the work of his brain or his hands is dishonest.
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Ralph Moody
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Get it in while you can. It'll all be gone soon enough.
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Hank Moody (God Hates Us All)
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Imperio!β
Moody jerked his wand, and the spider rose onto two of its hind legs and went into what was unmistakably a tap dance.
Everyone was laughing β everyone except Moody.
βThink itβs funny, do you?β he growled. βYouβd like it, would you, if I did it to you?β
The laughter died away almost instantly.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4))
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Good morning, Hell-A. In the land of the lotus-eaters, time plays tricks on you. One day youβre dreaming, the next, your dream has become your reality. It was the best of times. If only someone had told me. Mistakes were made, hearts were broken, harsh lessons learned. My family goes on without me, while I drown in a sea of pointless pussy. I donβt know how I got here. But here I am, rotting away in the warm California sun. There are things I need to figure out, for her sake, at least. The clock is ticking. The gap is widening. She wonβt always love me βno matter what
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Hank Moody
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Whatever you do, donβt be another brick in the wall!
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Hank Moody
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Jack Force was more than she had ever dared wish for, and he was better than a dream or a fantasy because he was real. He was far from perfect, moody and distant at times, and burdened with sharp temper and an impulsiveness that was part of his dark nature. But she felt more love for him than she thought possible. He wasn't perfect, but he was perfect for her. (Schuyler Van Alen)
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Melissa de la Cruz (Bloody Valentine (Blue Bloods, #5.5))
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All those things that werent supposed to happen? They happened. What happens next is up to you.
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Hank Moody
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How can you be so fucking beautiful and so fucking wrong?
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Hank Moody
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We don't know how to say goodbye,
We wander on, shoulder to shoulder
Already the sun is going down
You're moody, and I am your shadow.
Let's step inside a church, hear prayers, masses for the dead
Why are we so different from the rest?
Outside in the graveyard we sit on a frozen branch.
That stick in your hand is tracing
Mansions in the snow in which we will always be together.
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Anna Akhmatova (The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova)
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Someone has said that there are four things necessary in studying the Bible: Admit, submit, commit and transmit.
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Dwight L. Moody (Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study and Anecdotes, Incidents and Illustrations)
β
Surviving is one thing," he said quietly, his voice suddenly calmer, "but you've got to have a reason to do it. There's no point in living if you don't have anything worth living for.
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David Moody (Autumn (Autumn, #1))
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Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.
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Dwight L. Moody
β
I'm done with the pouting," he said. "Done with being moodyβwell, I mean, I'm always a little moody. That's what Adrian Ivashkov's all about. But I'm done with the excessive stuff. That didn't get me anywhere with Rose. It won't get me anywhere with you."
"Nothing will get you anywhere with me," I exclaimed.
"I don't know about that." He put on an introspective look that was both unexpected and intruiging. "You're not as much of a lost cause as she was. I mean, with her, I had to overcome her deep, epic love with a Russian warlord. You and I just have to overcome hundreds of years' worth of deeply ingrained prejudice and taboo between our two races. Easy.
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Richelle Mead (The Indigo Spell (Bloodlines, #3))
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A man's character is like his house. If he tears boards off his house and burns them to keep himself warm and comfortable, his house soon becomes a ruin. If he tells lies to be able to do the things he shouldn't do but wants to, his character will soon become a ruin. A man with a ruined character is a shame on the face of the earth.
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Ralph Moody (Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1))
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If you can't see His way past the tears, trust His heart.
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Dwight L. Moody
β
It is growing up different. It is extreme hypersensitivity. It is a bottomless pit of feeling you're failing, but three days later, you feel you can do anything, only to end the week where you began. It is not learning from your mistakes. It is distrusting people because you have been hurt enough. It is moments of knowing your pain is self inflicted, followed by blaming the world. It is wanting to listen, but you just canβt anymore because your life has been to full of people that have judged you. It is fighting to be right; so for once in your life someone will respect and hear you for a change. It is a tiring life of endless games with people, in order to seek stimulus. It is a hyper focus, so intense about what bothers you, that you canβt pay attention to anything else, for very long. It is a never-ending routine of forgetting things. It is a boredom and lack of contentment that keeps you running into the arms of anyone that has enough patience to stick around. It wears you out. It wears everyone out. It makes you question Godβs plan. You misinterpret everything, and you allow your creative mind to fill the gaps with the same old chains that bind you. It narrows your vision of who you let into your life. It is speaking and acting without thinking. It is disconnecting from the ones you love because your mind has taken you back to what you canβt let go of. It is risk taking, thrill seeking and moodiness that never ends. You hang your hope on βsignsβ and abandon reason for remedy. It is devotion to the gifts and talents you have been given, that provide temporary relief. It is the latching onto the acceptance of others---like a scared child abandoned on a sidewalk. It is a drive that has no end, and without βfocusβ it takes you nowhere. It is the deepest anger when someone you love hurts you, and the greatest love when they don't. It is beauty when it has purpose. It is agony when it doesnβt. It is called Attention Deficit Disorder.
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Shannon L. Alder
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I donβt just say shit. I mean, I do talk a lot of shit, but I generally mean what I say and I say what I mean.
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Hank Moody
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God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
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Dwight L. Moody
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Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.
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Dwight L. Moody
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I just stood there and looked up at Rush. When Iβd first laid eyes on him Iβd been awed at his beauty. Never had I thought that the moody playboy could have a heart the size of his underneath all that swagger. βWhat changed you? Youβre so completely different than that guy I met back in June,β I said, smiling at his confused face.
Rush reached out and slipped his hand into my hair and tangled his fingers around the strands. βThis sweet, determined, sexy-as-hell blonde walked into my life and gave me a reason to live.
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Abbi Glines (Forever Too Far (Rosemary Beach, #3; Too Far, #3))
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I never saw a fruit-bearing Christian who was not a student of the Bible.
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Dwight L. Moody (Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study and Anecdotes, Incidents and Illustrations)
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The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his lifeβbigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed its color and shape and expression according to time and place and weather. It aroused a deep sadness in his heart, and at the same time it brought his heart peace and comfort.
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Haruki Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle)
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Iβve lost a lot of battles, but Iβve never lost sight of the war. My goal is to fight my way to a day when weβre old and gray and she looks at me and says βIβm glad you never gave up.β Until then, I fight. No retreat, baby. No surrender.
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Hank Moody
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Severus, please fetch me the strongest truth potion you posess, then go down to the kitchen and bring up the house elf called Winky. Minerva, kindly go down to Hagrids house where you will find a large black dog sitting in the pumpkin patch. Take the dog up to my office, tell him I will be with him shortly, then come back here.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4))
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Time has no meaning in the wyldwood. Day and night don't really exist here, just light and darkness, and they can be as fickle and moody as everything else. A "night" can pass in the space of a blink, or go on forever. Light and darkness will chase each other through the sky, play hide-and-seek or tag or catch-me-if-you-can. Sometimes, one or the other will become offended...and refuse to come out for an indefinite amount of time. Once, light became so angry, a hundred years passed in the mortal realm before it deigned to come out again. And though the sun continued to rise and set in the human world, it was a rather turbulent period for the world of men, as all the creatures who lurked in darkness and shadow got to roam freely under the lightless Nevernever skies.
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Julie Kagawa (The Iron Knight (The Iron Fey, #4))
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Proper handling of a horse like this is no simple matter. He was trained to race, from birth. Not only to race, but to be the best. Once a champion, he was spoiled with attention and permissive handling. Add to that, he's an ungelded male, with a strong natural mating drive. It all adds up to a horse with a mile-wide streak of arrogance, bloody bored out of his mind. Without proper exercise and opportunities to mate, all that aggressive energy festers. He becomes moody, intractable, withdrawn, destructive."
Ashworth raised an eyebrow at Bellamy. "Is it just me, or is this conversation becoming uncomfortably personal?"
Spencer fumed. "I'm not referring to myself, you ass.
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Tessa Dare (One Dance with a Duke (Stud Club, #1))
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Tegularius was a willful, moody person who refused to fit into his society. Every so often he would display the liveliness of his intellect. When highly stimulated he could be entrancing; his mordant wit sparkled and he overwhelmed everyone with the audacity and richness of his sometimes somber inspirations. But basically he was incurable, for he did not want to be cured; he cared nothing for co-ordination and a place in the scheme of things. He loved nothing but his freedom, his perpetual student status, and preferred spending his whole life as the unpredictable and obstinate loner, the gifted fool and nihilist, to following the path of subordination to the hierarchy and thus attaining peace. He cared nothing for peace, had no regard for the hierarchy, hardly minded reproof and isolation. Certainly he was a most inconvenient and indigestible component in a community whose idea was harmony and orderliness. But because of this very troublesomeness and indigestibility he was, in the midst of such a limpid and prearranged little world, a constant source of vital unrest, a reproach, an admonition and warning, a spur to new, bold, forbidden, intrepid ideas, an unruly, stubborn sheep in the herd.
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Hermann Hesse (The Glass Bead Game)
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My sadness is beautiful. It infuses everything I do. It is at the core of my identity and always has been, just as happiness is in some people. I refuse to be told that it's a flaw. I will not mute it with medications for the sake of society. I will hold it close to me and celebrate it rightfully while the rest of the world fails to see it for what it is and it will be their loss.
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Ashly Lorenzana
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Dear Karen,
I've been thinking about Us, the story of us. How the fuck do I sum it up? Has it been perfect? Hardly. Any story with me at the center of it will never be anything less than a big smiling mess. But here's what I know for sureβour time in the sun has been a thing of absolute fucking beauty. The nightmares, the hangovers, the fucking and the punching. The gorgeous shimmering insanity of the city of ours. Where for years I woke up, fucked up, said I was sorry, passed out and did it all over again.
As a writer, I'm a sucker for happy endings. The guy gets the girl, she saves him from himself, fade to fucking black. As a guy who loves a girl, I realize there's no such thing. There's no sunset. There's just now, and there's just the two of us, which can be scary fucking ugly sometimes. But if you close your eyes and listen for the whisper of your heartβif you simply keep trying and never ever give up, no matter how many times you get it wrong, until the beginning and the end blur into something called until we meet again -- and that's it.
I didn't know how to finish it, because it's not over. It'll never be over, as longs as there's you, and there's me, and there's hope, and grace.
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Hank Moody