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People always say it's harder to heal a wounded heart than a wounded body. Bullshit. It's exactly the opposite—a wounded body takes much longer to… — Xiaolu Guo
We are walking down the street holding hands. There is a playground at the end of the block, and I run to the swings and… — Audrey Niffenegger
Lucas should've run out of there that instant. Instead he stared at me through the glass and slowly unfolded his hand opposite mine so that… — Claudia Gray
I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
In the beginning it was always the same. But. I kept trying. Then one day I accidentally moved as the shutter clicked. A shadow appeared.… — Nicole Krauss
It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music. — Eric Hoffer
I turned to look into his face one last time. It was as if I could see the whole universe in his eyes. Maybe he… — Christopher Pike
They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if… — Laurell K. Hamilton
But for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this one. Nothing has… — Jean-Paul Sartre
What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw… — Charles Dickens
Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite? — Jonathan Safran Foer
Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose; that there is… — Jonathan Safran Foer
People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels, they will get an infinity of different opinions.… — Amin Maalouf
We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's death and by… — Flannery O'Connor
If civilization has an opposite, it is war. — Ursula K. Le Guin
When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as… — A A Milne
The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every… — Cory Doctorow
My head was level with hers as we stared at each other from opposite sides of the glass. I don't remember how it ended -… — John Green
Wrong way, Bones. The men's showers are in the opposite direction." I'll file that away with all the other information that doesn't pertain to me"… — Jeaniene Frost
Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you." You said… — Sarah Dessen
When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The… — Gail Carson Levine
Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room… — Haruki Murakami
The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and… — Ayn Rand
[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin.… — Flannery O'Connor
One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not… — Elie Wiesel

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