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'Adult life is a series of compromises, Adrien.'

'Yeah, only you're negotiating with the Devil.'

Still not looking at me, he growled, 'Oh, go to hell.'

I raised my water in a toast. 'Sure. I'll follow the trail of bread crumbs you're scattering.'


Josh Lanyon

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Okay.

I wrote back.

Okay.
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There was a pause....
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running
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AUDRE LORDE Take bread away from me, if you wish,
take air away, but
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MORGAN MATSON Yeah, I got her,” Will confirms.
“Who you got?” I ask.
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KRISTEN PROBY Am I making something worth while?
I’m not sure.
I write and I sing and I hear words fro...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
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I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth...
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A child looking for attention.
It is not a big secret.
...
ADELHEID MANEFELDT My muscles informed me they did not want to go through any more exercise today. So I suggest that ma...
RICHELLE MEAD I have become intoxicated again.
You are such a potent wine, my friend.
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MEG ROSOFF I won't be stuck in traffic 'til I see how rugged my path is
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His eyes widen.
He lunged at me.
I wouldn't let go.
We...
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"He looked lik...
SEVENTHSWAN     Oh, devil, devil!
If that the earth could teem with woman’s tears,
Each drop...
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When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the ni...
WENDELL BERRY my dear

show me i am with you . other way
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I was looking fo...
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No I'm not out hanging with my friends
There's no ...
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There's danger on the deep,
I'll come and pace the deck with ...
THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword."

She raised an...
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moves, drawn out
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There's little in water or wine
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ARTHUR GUITERMAN You brought me to places
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Shy one, shy one,
Shy one of my heart,
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“Nat, I’m not going to hire W...
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ROSHANI CHOKSHI Teach me, Father, how to go
Softly as the grasses grow;
Hush my soul to meet the shock
Of t...
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When the evening is spread out against the sky

Like...
JOHN GREEN Wisdom

When I have ceased to break my wings
Against the faultiness of things...
SARA TEASDALE People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Friendship is love with understanding.
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
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If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
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People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good...
The guilty catch themselves.
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
Hate pollutes the mind.
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming t...
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
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Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
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JOSH BILLINGS Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
JOSH BILLINGS Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
JOSH BILLINGS A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.
JOSH BILLINGS I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I ...
JOSH BILLINGS The less we know the more we suspect.
JOSH BILLINGS My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart in...
JOSH BILLINGS The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
JOSH BILLINGS Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed ...
JOSH BILLINGS The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.
JOSH BILLINGS If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy...
JOSH BILLINGS Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it ge...
JOSH BILLINGS Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.
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