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I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain


Cassandra Clare

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My thatch gate has been closed–but...
DU FU I have nothing to offer you other
than the undying love of my broken Heart.
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FRANK SINATRA So I did something I've never done, and put your live above my own, because no matter how hard I try...
EMMA WINTERS I don't care what anyone says. It's my life, and I can do what I like.
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JUSTIN TRUDEAU I offer you my mouth—
Let me marry my lips to the tops of your thighs,
I kneel between y...
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MOHNISH PABRAI If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
VAN MORRISON If you think you can do it, you can.
JOHN BURROUGHS It ain't bragging if you can do it.
DIZZY DEAN For the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Then it stops.
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How can I laugh when I hav...
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KRISTEN MCMAIN OAKS I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Your bounty is beyond my speaking; But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you.
NICHOLAS ROWE I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Do the thing and you will have the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
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WILFRED OWEN I think living my happy, open life and showing young gay kids you can be successful, you can have lo...
BRYAN BATT I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pie...
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NINA DOBREV I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a concept...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The fact that I am Latino is not a secret. There's not much I can do about that. It is what it i...
PETE GALLEGO But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?
ANTHONY DOERR But I can please God
CRAIG GROESCHEL If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. Yo...
WARIS DIRIE You'll be okay. No matter what shape reality takes, you can handle it.
SHIRO AMANO I feel good with my defense, but no matter how you do things, you can always do it better.
ORLANDO HUDSON That's the way I can offer the best prices to my customers.
ANDREW PANTANO I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the product of a huge mistake...
JAMES ALTUCHER There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile...no sound sweeter than your laughter...
LISA KLEYPAS Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my...
SYLVIA PLATH Only I can change my life. No one else can do it for me.
GUNDO MULAUDZI Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose th...
VIGGO MORTENSEN You are one of the best things that's ever happened to me. You're my love and my best friend. And ev...
HENRY FORD There is so much you are capable of doing, but you will never know until you try
SOTONYE ANGA I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.
GERALD R. FORD I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I ...
MAHATMA GANDHI I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I ...
MAHATMA GHANDI My motto in life is 'If you think it, you can do it' and if we all apply that thought we can...
DIONNE WARWICK I can't give you my beating heart, but I can give you my unconditional love.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Make me an offer I can't refuse, and you can have the taco stand,
CARLOS GOMEZ I am not sure I trust you."
"You can trust me with your life, My King."
"But not with my w...
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER Be all that you can be.
You can be great.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I offer deep prayers from my heart to those who were killed,
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI I haven't seen an offer, but I think I can safely predict it will be rejected.
MICHAEL CAREY Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and...
PLATO I had no idea how greedy my heart really was.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT It is what it is, it is what you make it.
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CASSANDRA CLARE I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to fin...
CASSANDRA CLARE One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.
CASSANDRA CLARE He made it very clear that he didn’t want me here,” she said at last. “That my remaining at th...
CASSANDRA CLARE Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.
CASSANDRA CLARE Jace broke off the kiss and stepped back with an exhale; before Clary could say anything, a chorus o...
CASSANDRA CLARE You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoidi...
CASSANDRA CLARE I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or ...
CASSANDRA CLARE What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.
CASSANDRA CLARE You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me."
She smiled up at him. Fil...
CASSANDRA CLARE And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I cou...
CASSANDRA CLARE In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matter...
CASSANDRA CLARE When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They’re in everything you do. They’re ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Do not let any of them tell you who you are. You are the flame that cannot be put out. You are the s...
CASSANDRA CLARE Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.
CASSANDRA CLARE Your place is with me," Jem said. "It always Will be.
CASSANDRA CLARE You sound as if you don't mind what happens to it," said Tessa. "Won't you miss it here? This place ...
CASSANDRA CLARE It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me...
CASSANDRA CLARE People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you l...
CASSANDRA CLARE Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.
CASSANDRA CLARE You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.
CASSANDRA CLARE One finds nobility in the oddest places.
CASSANDRA CLARE Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait."
"I always thought that...
CASSANDRA CLARE If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?
CASSANDRA CLARE I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be...
CASSANDRA CLARE Will tossed the bloody cloth aside. “And you wonder why we aren’t friends.”
“I just wo...
CASSANDRA CLARE It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.
CASSANDRA CLARE You're not gay, are you?"
Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better.
CASSANDRA CLARE Is this Clarissa Fray?" The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immedia...
CASSANDRA CLARE I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood.
CASSANDRA CLARE The first morning Simon had been at Amatis's house, a grinning lycanthrope had showed up on the door...
CASSANDRA CLARE And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you're done with training, you shoul...
CASSANDRA CLARE So--what's it like, being a vampire?"

"Aline!" Isabelle looked appalled. "You can't just ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Fresh is better. But you've never drunk fresh blood. Have you?"
Simon raised his eyebrow in res...
CASSANDRA CLARE Happy birthday, Alexander," Magnus murmured.
"Thanks for remembering," Alec whispered back.
CASSANDRA CLARE While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and ski...
CASSANDRA CLARE I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain.
CASSANDRA CLARE By the Angel," Jace said, looking the demon up and down. "I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugl...
CASSANDRA CLARE It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them to...
CASSANDRA CLARE Sebastian just smiled. “I could hear your heart beating,” he said softly. “When you were watch...
CASSANDRA CLARE Don't tell me," Jace said, "Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something ab...
CASSANDRA CLARE Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?"
"Of cou...
CASSANDRA CLARE A lot of people have asked me about some of the characters that appear in 'Clockwork Prince,'...
CASSANDRA CLARE Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Do you remember,” he said, “when we first met and I told you I was ninety percent sure putting a...
CASSANDRA CLARE Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducki...
CASSANDRA CLARE [Julian]"Remember, Mark is in charge.”
“Does he know that?” said Livvy.
Julian sough...
CASSANDRA CLARE Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nu...
CASSANDRA CLARE The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face...
CASSANDRA CLARE I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.
CASSANDRA CLARE How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing
at the radiance of...
CASSANDRA CLARE It wasn’t sexy," he said.
“It was a little sexy,” Simon said.
He felt much better, ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Isabelle waved a hand. "No need to worry, big brother. Nothing happened. Of course," she added as Al...
CASSANDRA CLARE The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long.
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