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You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the… — Unknown Author
If a man wants to be romantically involved with you, he tries to kiss you. That's the entire story, and if he doesn't kiss you,… — Curtis Sittenfeld
So when he asked about getting high, I didn't think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in… — Ellen Hopkins
Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession.… — Paulo Coelho
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. — Stephen Covey
Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word. — Julio Cortazar
In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the… — Judith Lewis Herman
What is a normal child like? Does he just eat and grow and smile sweetly? No, that is not what he is like. The normal… — Donald Woods Winnicott
I, Geric-Sinath of Gerhard, declare that you're beautiful and you're perfect and I'll slay any man who tries to take you from my side. Goose… — Shannon Hale
Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange… — H P Lovecraft
The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man… — Marguerite Duras
it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it… — Rainer Maria Rilke
That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window. — Raymond Carver
What I said yesterday didn't mean anything! I love everyone in the flock! Plus, it was the Valium talking!" "Uh-huh. You just keep telling yourself… — James Patterson
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily. — Alan Watts
DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: "Remember, m'boy," his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, "that if anyone tries to get the better of you,… — Jasper Fforde
Simon, would you still care for me if you discovered I was not who I say I am?" What do you mean?" I mean would… — Libba Bray
The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so… — Ted Hughes
His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift. But,… — Ken Kesey
If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine. — P.G. Wodehouse
Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have… — Anne Lamott
My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says. — S.G. Browne
Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because… — Nicole Krauss
Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when… — Hermann Hesse

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