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- I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came…
- The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that…
- Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody…
- It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're…
- People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the…
- Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other…
- Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.
- My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women…
- Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.
- Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head.…
- Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have…
- 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…
- Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next place and the…
- Abra DeMadrigal didn't look young enough to be my sister anymore. Her sorrow weighed her down and aged her. She was still beautiful, but she…
- I thought you were supposed to be the champion of your people,' I said. I live because I need to do that. For anyone who…
- We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as…
- Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It…
- He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.
- What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing…
- Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of…
- What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map…
- Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn’t help but notice which patrons checked out…
- Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me,…
- Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?
- He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle