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Itâ€™s so much easier to walk away than it is to have to explain to someone that you never want to see them again. — Meg Cabot
It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four,… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Itâ€™s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasnâ€™t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you… — Tim O'Brien
The ways I could hurt her and hurt myself. Those two things were intertwined somehow. It's hard to explain, but when you were as closed… — Kami Garcia
I tried to explain as much as I could," Poppet says. "I think I made an analogy about cake." "Well, that must have worked," Widget… — Erin Morgenstern
Jack didnâ€™t fully get Jesus. Audrey tried to explain it, and he could repeat it back to her, word for word, but he still didnâ€™t… — Ilona Andrews
Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder.… — Julian Barnes
Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for some men to… — Immanuel Kant
Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain… — Cornelia Funke
Kate, perhaps you need to explain to your significant other that he is in no position to give me orders. Last time I checked, his… — Ilona Andrews
It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't… — Thomas M. Disch
Suddenness," he says. " You do not prepare, you do not explain, you do not apologize. Suddenly, you go. And with you, you take all… — Tea Obreht
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that… — Hunter S. Thompson
And I felt comfort. Finally. All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same… — Sarah Dessen
We think that the world is limited and explained by its past. We tend to think that what happened in the past determines what is… — Alan Watts
Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?â€ Her stomach twisted. â€œNo.â€ She shook her head, fervently. How to explain that she hadnâ€™t had… — Marissa Meyer
One day a wolf bit a man and the man caught it. Magic or science, it's all the same. The only thing magical about it… — Maggie Stiefvater
The lion has to stay outside" "He won't like it" The lion shook his mane. I looked at Curran. The lion melted. Skin stretched, bones… — Ilona Andrews
There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How… — Raymond Carver
You talk more when you're nervous," he said, still standing close to her. "No i don't. That's absurd. I'm just trying to explain to you-"… — Michele Jaffe

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