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They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose. — Albert Camus
For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it… — Virginia Woolf
I had forgotten that Jess felt about long words the way that racists feel about black people: she hated them, and wanted to send them… — Nick Hornby
What did it feel like, I wondered, to love someone that much? So much that you couldn't even control yourself when they came close, as… — Sarah Dessen
It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most… — Upton Sinclair
Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know… — Jose Saramago
Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so… — John O'Donohue
Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came… — Anna Quindlen
There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself…… — C.S. Lewis
I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be… — Mark Twain
I felt tired for the first time, and I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me on my back… — John Green
Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way ,when they came , the offered… — Donna Jo Napoli
As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this… — Wendell Berry
Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I… — Lauren Willig
Ogbuef Ezedudu,who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking… — Chinua Achebe
Now they came back to him, on this night he was seventeen years old. All the years and places of his brief broken life came… — Ursula K. Le Guin
They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any futrther… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Back in the autumn I had awakened to a growing darkness and cacophony, as if something in the depths were crying out. A whole chorus… — Sue Monk Kidd
I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in… — Neil Gaiman
They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It's us, Papa, the boy whispered. It's us. — Cormac McCarthy
You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it...… — Philip K. Dick
Give me liberty or give me death.' A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they came to conquer… — Katherine Applegate
It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain, instantly… — Diana Gabaldon
But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting… — Neal Stephenson
When they came to harvest my corpse (open your mouth, close your eyes) cut my body from the rope, surprise, surprise: I was still alive.… — Margaret Atwood

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