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Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being… — Rick Yancey
...in order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that… — James A. Baldwin
And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all… — Fernando Pessoa
And do you know what a full-fledged war would look like, Percy?" "Bad?" I guessed. "Imagine the world in chaos. Nature at war with itself.… — Rick Riordan
All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious. — Haruki Murakami
Tabitha was always trying unorthodox ways to set her up with guys. Although, to be fair to her sister, Tabitha didn't usually knock the guy… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm not threatening to kill myself. But you need to know this about me because—if you want to be my mate—I won't be like Leo.… — Patricia Briggs
For reasons he couldn’t understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other side of the… — Melina Marchetta
I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the… — Aberjhani
She’s really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching… — Suzanne Collins
Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness… — Alan Watts
Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows… — Suzanne Collins
Right. And our first job is to teach her to give a speech on the Grand Balcony in three days.” “That does not sound too… — Michael J. Sullivan
That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality. — Grace Paley
He scooped up my arm, swung me round. “Let go, Cecil,” I said. “I’ve a strange dislike of being forced.” “But Briony,” he said, “I’m… — Franny Billingsley
Love can't be forced into existence,(...)It won't come simply because you will it to happen — Judith McNaught
I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I… — Haruki Murakami
[Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You forced the world… — Terry Pratchett
I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what… — Howard Zinn
The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I don't mean to hate people, I just get forced into it. — Jon Richardson
Not that I don't appreciate the rescue," Holt said. "But I'm forced to ask, in the interest of self-preservation ... exactly how well armed are… — Rachel Vincent
I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the… — Edgar Allan Poe
Be kind, be all sympathy, For each and every human being Is forced to fight against himself. — Sri Chinmoy

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