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He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they…
— Thornton Wilder
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Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks.
— Cassandra Clare
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She keeps on hoping from a word from Penelope, but not in any strenuous way. She hopes as people who know better hope for undeserved…
— Alice Munro
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It sort of floated toward me,†said Ron, illustrating the movement with his free index finger, “right to my chest, and then — it just…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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You've sort of made up for it tonight,' said Harry. 'Getting the sword. Finishing off the Horcux. Saving my life.' 'That makes me sound a…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in…
— Franz Kafka
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Izzy," said Jace, as they neared the pond, and she jumped up and spun around. Her smile was dazzling. "Jace!" She flew at him and…
— Cassandra Clare
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Being proposed to all is very nice and all that sort of thing, but it isn’t at all a happy thing when you have to…
— Bram Stoker
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In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that…
— Chuck Klosterman
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Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.
— Cassandra Clare
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People, Reacher was certain about. Dogs were different. People had freedom of choice. If a man or a woman ran snarling toward him, they did…
— Lee Child
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It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
— Alice Hoffman
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It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of…
— Terry Pratchett
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Maybe careers aren’t something you can really plan for. They just sort of happen, like brown eyes or flat feet. I took one of those…
— Susan Juby
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She thinks she knows everything that goes on inside me, and she doesn’t know a thing. What did she want from me – to tell…
— Paul Zindel
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When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door.…
— C.S. Lewis
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The battle cry sort of gave you away. Try not to yell next time.
— Richelle Mead
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Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such…
— Iris Murdoch
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As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered…
— Kate Morton
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