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He glanced furtively up and down the hallway. "Hodge too. Everyone wants to talk to me. Except you, I bet you don't want to talk… — Cassandra Clare
I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that is why this silence must… — Amitav Ghosh
Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. — George Orwell
Over and over again, stories in women's magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the moment of giving birth to a child. They… — Betty Friedan
Any idiot can stand in front of a target," I say. "It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall is… — Veronica Roth
Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the… — Dr. Seuss
Part of me knows one more day won't do anything except postpone the heartbreak. But another part of me believes differently. We are born in… — Gayle Forman
Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not… — Pat Conroy
Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love. — Susan Sontag
Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me? — Alan Moore
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. — Oscar Wilde
When I was fifteen, a dark shape came into my room at night. It was dark, but it glowed, which is the first of many… — Miranda July
Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on… — Daniel Handler
There was no logic or any sense of purpose except that I knew I had to do something other than what I was doing, or… — J.A. Redmerski
For our purposes you can consider it a small country between Germany and France." "But there isn't anything between Germany and France. Except Switzerland." "Precisely,"… — Cassandra Clare
Faeries are fallen angels," said Dorothea, "cast down out of heaven for their pride." "That's the legend," Jace said. "It's also said that they're the… — Cassandra Clare
When the Duke [W.J.C. Scott-Bentinck] died, his heirs found all of the aboveground rooms devoid of furnishings except for one chamber in the middle of… — Bill Bryson
Jared told her he used to be an exotic dancer in San Francisco.' 'My body is a gift from God,' Jared said gravely. 'Except for… — Sarah Rees Brennan
If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But… — Ronald Reagan
When Hale's hand disappeared inside his tuxedo jacket, Macey wasn't exactly sure what he'd find inside the pocket. It could have been another phone or… — Ally Carter
Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they have… — Jane Jacobs
At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else,… — Emile M. Cioran
You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything… — Clara Barton
I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all that I was… — Khaled Hosseini
... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror. — Mercedes Lackey

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