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Aside from the obvious, Francesca, what do you want in return for supplying information?â€ Bones asked, getting back to the subject. â€œYou to take me,â€… — Jeaniene Frost
The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has no power, The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in… — Mitch Albom
Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist. — Truman Capote
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting. — William Makepeace Thackeray
I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it… — Warren Buffett
The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the… — Carlos Fuentes
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall… — Madonna Ciccone
For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave.… — Italo Calvino
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. — Milan Kundera
The hardest lesson is Clareâ€™s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; Iâ€™ve interrupted some train of thought, broken into the… — Audrey Niffenegger
All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but… — John Lubbock
God never promised that we wouldnâ€™t have challenges. In fact, He said just the opposite. His word says, â€˜Be truly glad!...these trials are only to… — Joel Osteen
Love overlooks a personâ€™s faults. Thatâ€™s not always easy, but love believes the best in every person. Anybody can return evil for evil, but God… — Joel Osteen
While we read a novel, we are insaneâ€”bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in… — Ursula K. Le Guin
It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are… — Gustave Flaubert
Many of us are returning from a long journey during which we were forced to search for things that were of no interest to us.… — Paulo Coelho
These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words… — Walter Mosley
Go back and rid the word of that book. Fill it with words before spring comes, or winter will never end for you. And I… — Cornelia Funke
Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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