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Come on outside when youÊ¹re done,Êº I told her. ÊºItÊ¹s like the barbecue of the damned. Except . . . thereÊ¹s no grill. — Richelle Mead
And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them… — Dennis Lehane
And things were back to normal except we were just friends. — Stephen Chbosky
So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all… — Tad Williams
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render… — Adam Smith
Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men â€“ or about women â€“ is actually true? You ought to consider the… — Moderata Fonte
...You have to accept yourself, who you are. You don't believe. You still fight who you are. Until you accept yourself, until you believe, you… — Terry Goodkind
Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself. — Paulo Coelho
â€¦we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears. — Italo Calvino
I canâ€™t see through clothes or anything. Just glamour skin. Except I can see through all of you, since your clothes arenâ€™t real.â€ I stopped,… — Kiersten White
Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever… — Sherwood Smith
And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a… — Augusten Burroughs
That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head,… — Franz Kafka
It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the… — AndrÃ© Brink
The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification,… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Fine. Whatever. I donâ€™t. Nobody understands your pain, Mae. Because it is so unique! Nobodyâ€™s ever loved something so much they would do anything to… — Amanda Hocking
To die, is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her, Is self from self: a deadly banishment! What light is… — William Shakespeare
I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has… — Susanna Clarke

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