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Some days,' I say, 'I feel like I don't belong anywhere in that world. That world out there. 'I point to Grant. 'People walk down… — Ann M. Martin
You are in favour of the common people?” said Dragon mildly. The common people?” said Vimes. “They’re nothing special. They’re no different from the rich… — Terry Pratchett
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. — Edmund Burke
I think the way I feel when I look at Evan comes from her. In pictures taken the day she married my dad, she was… — Elizabeth Scott
Radar revs the engine as to say hustle, and we are running through the parking lot, Ben's robe flowing in the wind so that he… — John Green
And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the… — Maud Hart Lovelace
He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for… — Pearl S. Buck
There's nothing wild about me. I'm a solid middle-aged man." "Except that once a month you turn into a wolf and go tearing around slaughtering… — Cassandra Clare
At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books; and the dreams… — Robin McKinley
Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there’s the size-doesn’t-matter-except-in-my-case problem,… — Nick Hornby
Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed. — Francis Bacon
I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between. — Ayn Rand
I should start charging uncomfortable thoughts rent. Except what would they pay me in? Probably something even worse. — Lilith Saintcrow
We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life,… — Loren Eiseley
There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you. — Neale Donald Walsch
A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the… — Raymond Chandler
I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty… — Reif Larsen
This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't. — Michael Crichton
It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not… — Melina Marchetta
What's love? Something that lasts a week or a month and that's all you can except? Or is it just that some loves have a… — Katherine Applegate
No one had ever called me unnatural before, except for the time I put ketchup on a taco. But seriously, we'd been out of salsa,… — Richelle Mead
He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom. — Aimee Bender
I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. — Tana French
The sooner this wedding's over the happier I'll be." [Ron] "Yeah" said Harry, "then we'll have nothing to do except find Horcruxes....It'll be like a… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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