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He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others. — Leo Tolstoy
After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else. — Daniel Handler
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A… — Nelson Algren
Werenâ€™t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way,… — Cornelia Funke
They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right. — Neal Stephenson
I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either. — Alice Hoffman
I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and… — Salman Rushdie
There had been certain romantic interludes in the past that had included galloping across the desert at night; but he had never abducted any woman… — Robin McKinley
Sometimes I had the feeling that all of us in his family were like pets to him. The dog you take for a walk, the… — Bernhard Schlink
While I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has… — Nicholas Sparks
I'm afraid not." Hades sighed. "My son here convinced me that perhaps I should prioritize my list of enemies." He glared at me with distaste.… — Rick Riordan
Indeed, when I came to Italy, I expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have received instead empathy from most Italians. In any… — Elizabeth Gilbert
What's a friend for if not to face almost certain death with, eh? — Katie MacAlister
Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel… — William Gibson
I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid… — Pablo Neruda
Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved… — Sarah Addison Allen
A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up… — Rudyard Kipling
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached. — Franz Kafka
No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it… — Jay Asher
Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain… — Clive Barker

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