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I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow. — Siegfried Sassoon
I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you. — Nicholas Sparks
I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I… — Stephen Chbosky
some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished.… — Jennifer Egan
It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
He remembered his mentor, Lou Kline, telling him in the nineties that rock and roll had peaked at Monterey Pop. They'd been in Lou's house… — Jennifer Egan
Um…” Simon started slowly “at the risk of stating the obvious I feel I have to point out that Interpol has the worldʼs best database… — Ally Carter
In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust… — Aravind Adiga
And when you'd finished running you'd be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your problem would still be there except you'd… — Melina Marchetta
She keeps asking me where we're going." "Yeah," another voice said. It was Shane, pulling up a chair beside Claire. "Girls do that. They've always… — Rachel Caine
This kind of thing always amazed Ginny--people who just walked away from institutions. People who left school when they didn't see the point. Aunt Peg… — Maureen Johnson
But you didn't need me, did you? You'd already got yourself to safety." "Sometimes, I sleep better knowing you . . . and Niall .… — Melissa Marr
One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the… — Paulo Coelho
The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that… — James M. Barrie
Really? Screaming?” He shrugged. “It wasn’t that bad. But there were definitely some freak-outs on both sides. Though, to be honest, the silence was worse.”… — Sarah Dessen
Think anything like that at her again, and I'll kill you here and now." Madigan's scoff was uneasy. "Any attack on me -" "Is the… — Jeaniene Frost
Since you and Crispin are now finished and I have a few hours to kill, how about that shag?” he asked with heavy irony. “Bite… — Jeaniene Frost
When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough to read this… — Malcolm X
He's a fascinating gentleman. Old-school. I tried to talk him into attending one of my services, but he said he wasn't finished sinning yet, and… — Lisa Kleypas
Rehearsels, actually." "Rehearsals?" "For the-" Oh,no. "-musicale." The Smythe-Smith musical.It finished off what the Crusades had begun.There wasn't a man alive who could maintain a… — Julia Quinn
There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your books, engrave it on the floor, whatever."… — Rick Riordan
Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you,” he said without looking up. “Start the… — Steven Pressfield
Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin,… — David Mitchell
I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new. — Maud Hart Lovelace

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