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Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know… — Sandra Brown
It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip.… — Sherwood Smith
The worst isn't the last thing about the world. It's the next to the last thing. The last thing is the best. It's the power… — Frederick Buechner
What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to… — Anne Carson
As his other hand began to slip around her waist, his body brushed against hers, and there was no mistaking the thick, hard ridge grazing… — Karen Marie Moning
Unrequited love," I'd say. He'd look at me sideways in that cunning way he did and say, "what about it?" and I'd reply, "it's not… — Maggie Stiefvater
He knew how to handle pain. You had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. You let yourself sort of move… — James Jones
I never ran out of ammo, because each time I fired a round, a new round was teleported into the bottom of the clip. My… — Ernest Cline
Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to… — Sue Grafton
First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters,… — Tim O'Brien
I remember a story I once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold water it's not that you drown right away but that… — Lauren Oliver
There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the… — Nora Ephron
The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom. — Sylvia Plath
No, Susanna, " he said. "I cannot love you just a little. If that's what you want, you must find a different man." His green… — Tessa Dare
What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried… — Mark Haddon
A feeling of violation swayed inside me, making me feel as if Id been shoved off a high platform without warning. I was falling, and… — Becca Fitzpatrick
it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I'm a licensed private investigator and have been for quite a while. I'm a lone wolf, unmarried, getting middle-aged, and not rich. I've been in… — Raymond Chandler
[Crisco] ain't just for frying. You ever get a sticky something stuck in your hair,like gum?...That's right, Crisco. Spread this on a baby's bottom, you… — Kathryn Stockett
I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didnâ€™t know what that was.… — Amy Tan

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