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Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.
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In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything…
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We need to recognise that slowing population growth is one of the most cost-effective and reliable ways of easing pressure on our…
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Time itself made all things rare.
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When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in…
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A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with…
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Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of…
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...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or…
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You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some…
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There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight…
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Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it…
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Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you…
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
— Octave Mirbeau
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When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.
— Kristan Higgins
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He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only…
— Robert South
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Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror…
— Kealan Patrick Burke
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I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled into a…
— Jesmyn Ward
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Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we…
— Arthur Golden
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She wanted to go over and hug his tears away, but she was too frightened.
— Steven Spielberg
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The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence…
— Alessandro Baricco
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As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears…
— Gustave Flaubert
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It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of…
— Lionel Shriver
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That's the beauty of the cure. No one mentions those lost, hot days in the field, when Thomas kissed Rachel's tears away…
— Lauren Oliver
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Look at me, Emma." Her eyes are full, the lids heavy. "Graham," she breathes. "I need you to hear me." Cradling her…
— Tammara Webber
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