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“The sacred rowan is a woman born long, long ago, a woman whose refusal to see love cost first her lover's life,… — Elizabeth Lowell Copy Share Image
“Crossover' is a word scientists use to describe dolphins' soaring over seas, their traveling so free and fast, so high-spirited and almost… — Brenda Peterson Copy Share Image
“There is an Eastern fable, told long ago, of a traveller overtaken on a plain by an enraged beast. Escaping from the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Because you deserve a duke, damn it!” A troubled expression furrowed his brow. “You deserve a man who can give you the… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
“In a sky swarming with uncountable stars, clouds endlessly flowing, and planets wandering, always and forever there has been just one moon… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Love is the reason why my mother and father stick together in a hard life when they might each have an easier… — Kao Kalia Yang Copy Share Image
Ghosts of melodious prophesyings rave Round every spot where trod Apollo's foot; Bronze clarions awake, and faintly bruit, Where long ago a… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Still is the night, it quiets the streets down, In that window my love would appear; She's long since gone away from… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“Through their history ran the strong golden thread of the Bible and the miracles. . . . Ah, the miracles; that was… — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit.… — George Dantzig Copy Share Image
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The shirt seemed heavy until he saw there was another shirt inside it, the sleeves carefully worked down inside Jack’s sleeves. It… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
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Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“It's hard being left behind. I wait for Henry, not knowing where he is, wondering if he's okay. It's hard to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Now, I did know a certain young lady of the 'romantic' generation of not so long ago who, after being mysteriously in… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
The equivocations, the confusions, the contradictions. There's no way we can live through or comprehend something so big that happened so long… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“I should like to ask you:-Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee, seem… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“Centuries old, but recently widened, the highway was the same road used by pagan armies, pilgrims, peasants, donkey carts, nomads, wild horsemen… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
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“I smell guilt. There is a stench of guilt upon the air. I see you all, whole and healthy, with your powers… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
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“I would travel far and wide...seeing, listening, creating. I would weave tales for an enthralled audience. A song would be heard throughout… — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“As it was before, so it was now; I need only be aware of God to live; I need only forget Him,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“No nation can approve violence against the most innocent and vulnerable, and expect the effects of that approval to be limited. By… — Paul Greenberg Copy Share Image
“I wish you had been my father,” she said. If Hunyadi were her father, everything would be easier. She would jump at… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
We probably have, right now, after the Civil Rights movement - and this was very unfortunate - the most glaring time of… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“My master then, assuming he is solitary, in my image, wishes me well, poor devil, wishes my good, and if he does… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
…I'm sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In this world unburdened by concepts, even ferocity was pure: the fish wriggling beneath the wave would soon be only a choice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The fallacy that dynamic processes must be modeled as if the system is in continuous equilibrium is probably the most important reason… — Steve Keen Copy Share Image
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Dear Dad,Only if you were here to see me grow up.I miss you so much. I have been in a huge depression… — Jasmine Copy Share Image
“Why did you come?” Gaia asked, passing over his shirt. “I wanted to see you,” he said. “That’s all? No problem with… — Caragh M. O'Brien Copy Share Image