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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
I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts. — Truman Capote
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially… — Albert Einstein
But you’re human, aren’t you? (Kat) I’m human, except when I first wake up in the morning. Even I don’t want to be around myself… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the… — Blaise Pascal
In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful smells of the… — Susan Sontag
What good was owning the world when he’d have no choice except to defend himself against every person in it? Personally, he’d rather be a… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Love is the same as being lost,' says Jacques to the dark. 'Except you don't care that you're lost. — Jedediah Berry
What's going on down there, Katniss? Have they all joined hands? Taken a vow of nonviolence? Tossed the weapons in the sea in defiance of… — Suzanne Collins
I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep,… — Beryl Markham
Surgeons can cut out everything except cause. — Herbert M. Shelton

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