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You know, I don’t get why Fred and George only got three O.W.L.s each,” said Harry, watching as Fred, George, and Lee collected gold from… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make things up. 2.… — Nora Ephron
I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries,… — Ray Bradbury
Will an hour be enough?” An hour implied that I needed a lot of help. “I’ll see what I can do,” I said coolly. I… — Karen Marie Moning
I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and… — William Butler Yeats
I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too… — Ayn Rand
Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he… — Douglas Adams
The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are… — Dorothy Dunnett
A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest. — Gayle Forman
I love you', though, were three words she had often heard during her twenty-two years, and it seemed to her that they were now completely… — Paulo Coelho
Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few,… — Anne Bronte
…I'm sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Snow, get behind me!" Charming shouted as he leaped to his feet. "I'll handle this brute." "Billy", the teacher cried. "This is the twenty-first century,… — Michael Buckley
Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take… — Marie Lu
In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recongize her relations as an individual… — Kate Chopin
Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go. — Alexander Gordon Smith
...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion. — Nora Roberts
And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and moving his head… — Mary Balogh
And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on… — Jennifer Donnelly
For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies. — Lauren DeStefano
I've spent twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do...being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid… — Sarah MacLean
He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking… — Melina Marchetta
[from The One and Only Official Mr. Gum Official Glossary That Tells You What Words Mean by Explaining Them Using Other Words] : Launderette: This… — Andy Stanton
Hey, God made us sexual creatures. If he wanted teenagers to wait that long, he would have made puberty start at twenty-five. — Natasha Friend
Clairvoyant, Hornblower could foresee that in a year's time, the world would hardy remember the incident. In twenty years, it would be entirely forgotten. Yet… — C S Forester

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