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What is she to me? Except a menace â€” a danger youâ€™ve chosen to inflict on all of us. — Stephenie Meyer
I could have gone to medical school, I said. Except for all the math and stuff. — MaryJanice Davidson
TRIAD: Three separate highways intersect at a place no reasonable person would ever want to go. Three lives that would have been cut short, if… — Ellen Hopkins
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. — J D Salinger
Il n'y a de rÃ©alitÃ© que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.) — Jean-Paul Sartre
For the first time all day I felt safe. Except that Patch had cornered me in a dark tunnel and was possibly stalking me. Maybe… — Becca Fitzpatrick
The writing is clean. I really wouldn't have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits drinking and the… — Melissa Bank
As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour… — Roberto Bolano
It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train… — Lorrie Moore
I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and… — Lorrie Moore
She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except… — Tom Perrotta
For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage.… — George Orwell
What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I walked over to Drake and stomped on his foot. Hard. "What will I give you to help me? What will I give you?" He… — Katie MacAlister
No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
He was having more fun than a barrelful of monkeys.* *Several years earlier Spider had actually been tremendously disappointed by a barrelful of monkeys. It… — Neil Gaiman
True friends share everything, except the past before they met. — Mary Renault
It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it .… — Marilynne Robinson
...then he looked at my T-shirt and saw Byron's picture on it and he quoted "She Walks in Beauty," which is like my favorite poem… — Christopher Moore
For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is CERTAIN, that nothing bad will ever happen to ME. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and… — Ray Bradbury

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