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It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the… — Kazuo Ishiguro
A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings,… — Daniel H. Wilson
He'd given her his vow: to take care of her, to keep her from hurt or pain, from wanting for anything. Her leaving didn't negate… — Melissa Marr
It wasn't the tattoo that had changed her, had given her repossession of her body. It was her actions, her choices. It was finding the… — Melissa Marr
Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't… — Jodi Picoult
Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first… — Jack Finney
Heâ€™d wanted all of me and thatâ€™s what Iâ€™d given him. Did it mean I had nothing left? â€œNo,â€ he muttered, voice thick with passion.… — Jeaniene Frost
He did and said all the right things. Things that went straight to her heart, and worse, they inspired the one thing that she'd given… — Maya Banks
We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or… — David Platt
Harry constantly repeated Dumbledore's final words to himself. "I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. ... Help… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have… — Jacqueline Carey
Hope is that tiny light that the gods have given us so that we can find our way through our darkest hours. And while we… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we canâ€™t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our… — Nikki Giovanni
However, when given the chance, many people choose cocaine over love. I wouldnâ€™t say thatâ€™s a bad choice. The endorphins released during infatuation are similar… — Pete Wentz
Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy. — Rick Riordan
I know, I know. It's hard to explain. All I can say is that I've been given a second chance. Maxon matters to me, and… — Kiera Cass
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself? — Michel Foucault
Loving means being open to miracles, to victories and defeats, to everything that happens each day that was given us to walk upon the face… — Paulo Coelho
I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any… — Anne Lamott

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