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- ...but with the hours I sometimes kept at the coffeehouse I had to have learned to take naps during the day or die, and I…
- She poured the water, arranged some bread near enough the embers to scorch but not catch fire, and looked up at Little John. She was…
- She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree…
- Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.
- My kind [vampires] does not surprise easily," he said. "You surprised me, this morning. I have thus used up my full quota of shock and…
- She laughed at him then, because he sounded like a small boy, not like a very large grown-up Beast with a voice so deep it…
- Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic--which was what all magic was--it was…
- ...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked…
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- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong