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Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. — Ishmael Beah
The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction… — Libba Bray
I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-" "The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He sounds bitter and… — Libba Bray
People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery. — Guillaume Apollinaire
Today, women have access to the technological capacity to do anything to our bodies in the struggle for "beauty", but we have yet to evolve… — Naomi Wolf
Time, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how slowly time passes… — Douglas Coupland
A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day… — Annie Dillard
He shook me, and despite it being one-handed, it made my teeth rattle. â€œIf anything like that ever happens again. You. Leave. Me. Behind. Do… — Karen Chance
Just kissing? How quickly you dismiss our love. — Cassandra Clare
The door closed behind her (Phoebe), and the two men regarded each other for a moment. Viktor spoke first. "I must have your promise, Coach,… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Once committed to fight, cut. Everything else is secondary. Cut. That is your duty, your purpose, your hunger. There is no rule more important, no… — Terry Goodkind
Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa, into the room, to soothe her,… — Markus Zusak
It was strange, how easily and quickly protection could cause destruction. Sometimes, Vasher wondered if the two weren't really the same thing. Protect a flower,… — Brandon Sanderson
Dreaming is not merely an act of communication (or coded communication, if you like); it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination,… — Milan Kundera
For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle… — Walker Percy
I liked the feeling of love,' [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. 'I… — Lois Lowry
A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly. — Jodi Picoult
That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten.… — Joseph Roth
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every… — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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