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Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels… — Douglas Adams
My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance,… — Franz Kafka
I saw Jonathan after he faced the fear demon, you know. It showed itself to him as you. That told me all I needed to… — Cassandra Clare
Babe," Ranger said. "You're looking a little strung out. Is there anything I should know?" I'm on a sugar withdrawal. I've given up desert and… — Janet Evanovich
[May] understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she ever met, and… — Cynthia Rylant
I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least… — John Green
Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me,… — William P. Young
We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I needed to temper (my dad's) enthusiasm a bit (about attending Princeton), and so I announced that I would be majoring in patricide...My mom was… — David Sedaris
She needed him to be him. Even if he could not be hers. — Julia Quinn
Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a… — Patrick Rothfuss
He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into… — George Orwell
Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant… — Alice Hoffman
Whoever had decided that school should start so early in the morning and last all day long needed to be hunted down and forced to… — Heather Brewer
Kartik places a sovereign in the lady's cup, and I know that it's likely all he has. "Why did you do that?" I ask. He… — Libba Bray
The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one… — Confucius
What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire for protracted, flowing… — Chuck Klosterman
I'll think of something," he temporized, and Horace nodded wisely, satisfied that Halt would indeed think of something. In Horace's world, that was what Rangers… — John Flanagan
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed… — Sinclair Lewis
There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees… — Louisa May Alcott

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