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A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world, because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted,…
— Tove Jansson
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I invited a few people to help celebrate your birthday," Cameron said sheepishly. She threw up her hands. "Surprise." "We sort of come with the…
— Julie James
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He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed…
— Philip K. Dick
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But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Yes. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. That is why few people find God. They go to church and talk about…
— Christopher Pike
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There was very little about her face and figure that was in any way remarkable, but it was the sort of face which, when animated…
— Susanna Clarke
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When she left for a third time and returned with a giant box, I started to get irate. "What is this?" I demanded, taking it…
— Richelle Mead
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if i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made.…
— Jodi Picoult
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You’re my sister,†he said finally. “My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect youâ€â€”he laughed soundlessly and without any humor—“to protect…
— Cassandra Clare
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There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.
— Patrick Rothfuss
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She's kind of funny looking. Her face is out of balance--broad forehead, button nose, freckled cheeks, and pointy ears. A slammed-together, rough sort of face…
— Haruki Murakami
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Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude…
— Franz Kafka
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Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the…
— Doris Lessing
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After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a sort of suspended…
— Mary Balogh
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A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the only sort of woman worth having.
— Nora Roberts
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Did you know, you're sort of beautiful?' 'You hit your head pretty hard, didn't you?
— Stephenie Meyer
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Why, what's the matter wi' the poor child?" she demanded of Jamie. "Has she had an accident o' some sort?" "No, it's only she's married…
— Diana Gabaldon
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I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive…
— Charlotte Bronte
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The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing…
— David Foster Wallace
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