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Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness. — L. Frank Baum
This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a… — Neil Gaiman
Hope does not leave without being given permission. — Rick Riordan
She doesn't even know how to kill things properlike? What kind of girl have you given me to, goddess?" Vic protested, fixing his eye on… — Jennifer Estep
Clearly Mr. Drkh has had a long career of being the weirdest person in any given room, but he's about to go down in flames. — Neal Stephenson
You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear,… — Anais Nin
There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. They… — Charlie Kaufman
Strangely, what pierced his heart and mind most sharply was not the memory of her lips under his at the ball, but the way she… — Cassandra Clare
Hey, Tink," Reed called to his wife. He'd given up on the poker game and was cradling the little pink handle that was Mariah Savage… — Cindy Gerard
There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you. — Anthony Powell
The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than Iâ€™ve been for weeks, as if something has been given back after a… — Richard R. Nelson
I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept… — Deepak Chopra
Listen, I didn't ask for a face and body girls find attractive. But thanks to the mixture of my parents' DNA, I've got them, and… — Simone Elkeles
I'm aware of what you've done for me, and I'm not ungrateful. I appreciate that you actually showed yourself to be greater than your prejudices… — Steig Larsson
I would have given him everything. I would have pulled down planets to make our life work. — Jonathan Carroll
Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or… — Mark Strand
We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves. — Muriel Barbery
One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface… — J.R.R. Tolkien
History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you.… — Howard Zinn
Lady Queen," he said, "You've given me all I want. You're the queen a librarian dreams of. — Kristin Cashore

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