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The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book… — Cory Doctorow
You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories. — Agatha Christie
Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes rightâ€”all that falls to them is so much gainâ€”all their… — Jacob Grimm
Be careful what youâ€™re doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more… — Rachel Cohn
You see, Dash -- I was never the girl in your head. And you were never the boy in my head. I think we both… — David Levithan
He chose the boy he thought most likely to be a danger to him," said Dumbledore. And notice this, Harry. He chose, not the pureblood… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Tess had said that the river was liable to wash the palace and the city and the whole kingdom off the rocks, and then there… — Kristin Cashore
I weaned myself on the nostalgia equivalent of methadone (less addictive, less obvious, less likely to make you crazy): missing what I had never had. — Tana French
~Do you like him much? ~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He… — Charlotte Bronte
Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems. — Charles Colson
A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor… — Jim Trelease
...Go somewhere else. Somewhere safer.â€ Anywhere else. God, please. Or he was likely to do something horribly awful, like surrender his sanity and kiss her. — Anne Mallory
Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the… — C.S. Lewis
Although you feel relief now, this is likely to be the source of many sleepless nights for you. You will lie awake, look upon your… — Mercedes Lackey
Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most efficient," Said Palmer.… — Michael Lewis
The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But… — Terry Brooks
Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers… — C.S. Lewis
Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skillsâ€”like intelligence and physical prowessâ€” because men with these qualities are… — Becca Fitzpatrick
So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?" "Not likely! I'm a coward. Only… — Diana Wynne Jones

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