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- Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved.…
- There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of…
- I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out…
- instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her secrets, while keeping our own to ourselves,…
- No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other…
- After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room--we…
- The basic fact is that no, this isnt ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push,so…
- Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You…
- Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once…
- And that was it; it was so easy for her. My own memories did not even belong to me. But I knew she was wrong.…
- I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her entirely. No matter…
- But she wouldn't. I knew that already. My mother and I had an understanding: we worked together to be as much in control of our…
- That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if nothing else, all…
- I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own…
- There were so many people, so much to navigate, and as the distance fluctuated between us his hand kept slipping, down my arm to my…
- This is what daughters did. They left, and came home later with lives of their own.
- You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. - Esther
- I was so scared about being discovered, but nobody came. Nobody heard. In my own ears, though, my sobs sounded primal and scary, like something…
- I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but cousins and aunts…
- So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.
- This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same way, knowing each…
- There was something striking about a single key. It was like a question waiting to be answered, a whole missing a half. Useless on its…
- But the original was there as well—more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep…
- I eased back on my elbows, tilting my head back to look up at the sky, which was pinkish, streaked with red. This was the…
- In a way, I was almost happy to see her. The worst part of me, out in the flesh. Blinking back at me in the…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov