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Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe… — Wallace Stegner
I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into… — Jodi Picoult
The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be… — Jodi Picoult
Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The day after his father left, Franz and his mother went into town together, and as they left home Franz noticed that her shoes did… — Milan Kundera
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own… — Wilkie Collins
I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and… — Terri Irwin
But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm… — Aimee Mann
Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as stark as Picasso… — Jodi Picoult
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work… — Helen Keller
-The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other but to be with each other. -The Hopis consider running a form of prayer;… — Christopher McDougall
Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Guy… — Alan Moore
Some are nice and some aren't. Some are smart, and others are about as bright as a wet match in a dark cave. In other… — Lisa Kleypas
There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature… — John Steinbeck
Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way in your brain.… — Nicholson Baker
Roland glares at Connor and Connor glares back. Then he says what he always says at moments like this. "Nice socks." Although Roland doesn't look… — Neal Shusterman
That was the sort of everyday love I had to learn to contend with: if you grow up with it, it's hard to think you'll… — Colum McCann
I could have grabbed his shirt collar. I could have pulled him close to me, so close he could feel my breath on his skin,… — Garth Stein
She lights a match in the dark hall and moves it onto the wick of the candle. Light lifts itself onto her shoulders. She is… — Michael Ondaatje

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