~Do you like him much?
~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He is full of faults.
~Is he?
~All boys are.
~More than girls?
~Very likely. Wise people say it is folly to think anyboy perfect, and as to likes and diskiles, we should be friendly to all, and worship none.

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Do you like him much?'
I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so v...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be fri...
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CARRIE JONES

So that's it?" Kenji says. "You just like him for his personality, huh?"

"What?"
TAHEREH MAFI

Start by pulling him out of the fire and
hoping that he will forget the smell.
He was supp...
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He Is Not Dead

I cannot say, and I will not say
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Percy wakes me and I am not ready.
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MARY OLIVER I do. I choose you,
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RICHELLE MEAD What's the deal? Why can't he look
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of appreciation lined u...
TANYA GAMBHIR Was he he handsome?" she asked with a sly smirk.
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"The devil,...
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RANDALL JARRELL When you think things are bad,
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“Oh, Emma, ...
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And he says, ...
DIAMANDA GALáS To express is to drive.
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you have to consult n...
LOUIS KAHN Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this."
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JOHN GREEN Oh, he'll help us whether he wants to or not. I told the truth. I would not kill him. The death-curs...
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I am...
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Carrie: I'm good. How are you?
Charlotte: Great.
Carrie: I to...
SEX AND THE CITY I drew a deep breath, trying to think of something to say, then pulled a handkerchief from my pocket...
DIANA GABALDON When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Why does that kid think so highly of himself?"
"Kids that think they're so smart.They're everyw...
NATSUKI TAKAYA DON PEDRO
Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.

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CHARLOTTE BRONTë I suddenly remember being about seven, riding beside him in the car, and asking him how grown-ups fo...
JODI PICOULT I drew him in my world;
I write him in my lines,
I want to be his girl,
he was never ...
LANG LEAV Is he all scarred now?”

“Magic gets rid of most physical scars, but I like to think I...
DEREK LANDY I drew a deep breath, trying to think of something to say, then pulled a handkerchief from my pocket...
DIANA GABALDON Pray each morning and each night.
Talk to God and be polite.
Tell Him what you're grateful...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH He looks at me. His face is dotted with raindrops but I think there are tears too.
'I love her...
SALLY GREEN Let me rephrase,” he added, sharper than barbed steel. “I’m coming with you.”
“Excuse...
MELISSA LANDERS Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
�...
FRANCINE RIVERS You have heard about the reindeer that pull old Santa's sled.
But mostly I hate Rudolph and wi...
MARK W. BOYER Robots are like Mars: they need
girls.
Boys won't do;
the memesoup is all wrong. The...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE He is sorry-
For everything-
For Prentisstown-
For Viola-
For Ben-
F...
PATRICK NESS Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Well, to tell you the truth, I've thought of it often and often before, but he's such devilish good ...
ANNE BRONTë Well, what do you want me to say?' The Doctor was so angry he was almost hovering. 'Well done on mar...
JAMES GOSS With Cats, some say, one rule is true:
Don’t speak till you are spoken to.
Myself, I do ...
T.S. ELIOT When it happens and it hits hard, we decide certain things, and realize there's truth in all those d...
DAVE MATTHES This is the sixty-nine,” I told him,
presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my finger...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER WORSHIP IS ACTION.

Worship is not lazy, boring and sad.
Worship is zealous, famous a...
MAC CANOZA Did you just tell us you're gay?" Asks Nick
"Yes."
"Okay," he says. Abby swats him. "What?...
BECKY ALBERTALLI No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you kno...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Tina returns from the bathroom and climbs into bed with a question in her eye.
"I want to talk ...
SACHA HAUGHTEE Yeah, that would be awesome. Me loaded and trying very hard not to make a scene, while the
guy ...
ANDREA SPEED Would you like to cross another item off this list today?"

"I should like that very much....
SARAH MACLEAN Damn it,” I said. “I don't suppose you have any ideas on how to kill Littleton.”
He smile...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Had he and I but met
By some old ancient inn,
We should have sat us down to wet
Right many ...
THOMAS HARDY Omnipotent-benevolent simply means that God is all-powerful and well-meaning.'
'I understand th...
DAN BROWN Do you ever wear leather?" the guy asks.
"What?"
"Leather. Do you like leather?"
"It ...
ERIC BISHOP-POTTER I Like For You To Be Still

I like for you to be still
It is as though you are...
PABLO NERUDA Daniel, he said. I would have you follow me.

Master!....I will fight for you to the end!....
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing,
I wish I was more cheerful, it is m...
STEVIE SMITH Since ever the world was spinning
And till the world shall end
You've your man in the begi...
L.M. MONTGOMERY All good people agree,
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
An...
RUDYARD KIPLING Ophelia,' said the boy. He said it very quietly. She didn't like the way he said that at all. He sou...
KAREN FOXLEE THERE was a man in our town, and he was wondrous rich;
He gave away his millions to the colleges...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS The error all women commit. Why can’t you women love us, faults
and all? Why do you place us ...
OSCAR WILDE Yves. You are goint to love him all over again when you meet him, believe me. You're married.'
...
JOSS STIRLING ...he asked, "Where are you today, right now?"
Eagerly, I started talking about myself. However...
DAN MILLMAN Oh, wow."

"What do you think?"

"I tried to imagine, but--I mean...it's so much...
ELIZABETH HUNTER you are a horse running alone
and he tries to tame you
compares you to an impossible highw...
WARSAN SHIRE I want to see the front of you.”
“That’s what all the girls say.”
“Do you expect...
J.R. WARD He sipped again, more deeply. “Is this an interrogation, Lieutenant?” It was the smile in his vo...
J.D. ROBB This is what it's all been about with you," he said in an even tone. "All the fear, all
the run...
KRESLEY COLE Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman--a rope over an abyss.

A dan...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE “I think we need food.”

“As long as I don’t have to cook it.”

He t...
KIERA CASS Verily, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving
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MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?"
"Eve...
JOSEPH HELLER He is deaf, and keen to accept,
any economical operation,
that will correct his situation....
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER You know all of the young gentlemen better than I do,” Lady Manston continued. “Are there any we...
JULIA QUINN Hey Atticus, do me a quick favour before we go? its easy.

Sure. What is it?

Ho...
KEVIN HEARNE You know those afternoons," he asks, drawing a shaking breath, "where you’re just going along, doi...
MARYA HORNBACHER When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And When his win...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I love my mother.

My mother loves my dad.

Those two facts are undeniable.
JOHNA PASSARO Ah, yeah. Yeah, tis awful all right. Well, your Mam wanted me to talk to you about it, but…’
CIARáN WEST I love you," I say to him, but it only comes out, "Hey"

"So damn much," he says back, it ...
JANDY NELSON Portia followed after, a smirk on her face, and Syc hissed as he passed.
Donegan waited till th...
DEREK LANDY Well," I ask, leaning over him, "do you wish to stay?"
"I do."
"And why is that, Cole?" I ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB You think too much," Lucas said to me on the banks of the White River the next day.
"I think to...
JOHN COREY WHALEY HARRY: Voldemort is going to kill my mum and dad — and there’s nothing I can do to stop him.
J.K. ROWLING I choose to believe that I owe my very
life to you--ay--smile, and think it an exaggeration if ...
ELIZABETH GASKELL Jesus is the perfect name!
He who put away his fame!
And persecuted in shame!
That yo...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR She looked at him and shook her head, smiled a little as she told him, "You are so like your father....
ALLY CARTER Who am I, that you should love me?"
"You are My Queen," said Eugenides. She sat perfectly still...
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER You told me you believed marriage was for other people."

"You're the only man who could m...
LISA KLEYPAS Zombie!” Sammy calls. “I knew it was you.”
Zombie?
“Where are you taking him?” B...
RICK YANCEY I know they don’t respect the lives of others…”

“Mortals,” he specified, “who...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH leaving is not enough; you must
stay gone. train your heart
like a dog. change the locks<...
MARTY MCCONNELL I want you,” she said. “Naked.”

His nostrils flared as if he was soaking in the sc...
NALINI SINGH In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.”
“How do ...
SARAH DESSEN You know I love you," I whispered in his ear.
"I know," he whispered back, turned, I pulled my ...
KRISTEN ASHLEY

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The human heart has hidden treasures,
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë What the deuce is to do now?
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Yes Mrs Reed, to you i owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but i ought to forgive you, for y...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are aba...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Who told you I was called Carl David?" "A little bird, Monsieur." "Does it fly from me to you? Then ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë ...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeli...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shephe...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me tha...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë As I exclaimed 'Jane! Jane! Jane!' a voice- I cannot tell whence the voice came, but I know whose vo...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you can...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?"

Reader, I forgave him ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It would take a great deal to crush me
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upw...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourse...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Rapidly, merrily,
Life's sunny hours flit by,
Gratefully, cheerily
Enjoy them as they...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë My spirits were excited, and with pleasure and ease I talked to him during supper, and for a long ti...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I h...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise fo...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Quando uma mulher sente desprezo pelo seu marido, o casamento passa a ser uma escravidão, e contra ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Detesto l’ardire, l’ardire che appartiene all’arrogante e all’insensibile, ma amo l’audaci...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I romanzieri non dovrebbero mai consentire a se stessi di stancarsi dell’indagine della vita reale...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë He that is low need fear no fall.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë ...there were two gentleman seated by it talking in French;impossible to follow their rapid utteranc...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë . . . for if we rarely taste the fulness of joy in this life, we yet more rarely savor the acrid bit...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë . . . still we are none of us perfect . . .
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I gave, at first, attention close;
Then interest warm ensued;
From interest, as improvem...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Qué terrible esfuerzo de dejar aquello que queremos
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Un hombre no puede olvidar la devoción que sentía por una mujer así, no debe ser, no puede ser
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë -Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something sma...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Belgium! name unromantic and unpoetic, yet name that whenever uttered has in my ear a sound, in my h...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Pero cuando el dolor termina el recuerdo que queda a veces se transforma en placer
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I verily believe all that is desirable on earth--wealth, reputation, love--will for ever to you be t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every ma...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I know that a pretty doll, a fair fool, might do well enough for the honeymoon; but when passion coo...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Human beings -- human children especially -- seldom deny themselves the pleasure of exercising a pow...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructur...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—Nov...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or h...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitt...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless s...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forwa...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Worn out with this torture of thought, I rose to my knees. Night was come, and her planets were rise...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this du...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And who talks of error now? I scarcely think the notion that flittered across my brain was an error....
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate -...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself,
than to commit a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë All men must die.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Signs may be but the sympathies of nature with man.
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