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- One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening - the best piece…
- A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked…
- I waited just to see you at that kind of peace, I wanted to be beside you, I wanted you to wake up slowly or…
- Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for…
- Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around…
- It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually…
- This is love, to sit with someone you've known forever in a place you've been meaning to go, and watching as their life happens to…
- A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying…
- A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a…
- Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the…
- Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out…
- If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and…
- Every night I give a violin recital for six hours, and attendance is mandatory. The word 'mandatory' means that if you don't show up, you…
- Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for…
- There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages…
- It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make…
- Death is something you cannot escape, such as death, or a cheesecake that has curdled, both of which always turn up sooner later.
- Once more, this is love: it rings and you open up unless it looks like an ax murderer.
- An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead…
- the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.
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