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It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the world in their own image. ---Carl — Diane Duane
Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do… — Sarah Dessen
Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer… — Garth Nix
Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to… — Frank Beddor
In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was… — Jodi Picoult
The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established… — Charles Dickens
A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am… — Markus Zusak
He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at that very moment… — Anna Godbersen
Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order — Tom Stoppard
He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered,… — Emily Bronte
We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous one. We leave… — Milan Kundera
Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by… — Leo Tolstoy
Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Zach found himself remembering something he'd heard Soledad and Leo saying the previous night, about healing. That it was mysterious. That it took time. And… — Nancy Werlin
I wish I had left him as he was. I wish you had told me this would happen. (Amanda) Told you what, Amanda? That the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial,… — Douglas Adams
No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only… — P.G. Wodehouse
Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument. — Chuck Klosterman
A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed. — Matt Ridley
Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people speak of who… — Stephen Levine

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