I can't change the way I'm made. I'm a performer, a singer, a werewolf, a sinner.

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Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others.
APURVA GAGLANI She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER

Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE

We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS

Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER Im A Good Friend, But Im A Better Enemy.
DONALD C HALL A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place...
ANKITA SINGHAL

People go on about places like Starbucks being unpersonal and all that, but what if that's what you ...
NICK HORNBY We hope a better way will lead us to more happiness, while we would be more successful if we, first,...
LAURA TERESA MARQUEZ Aut viam inveniam aut faciam tibi.

I will either find a way or make one.
KENDALL RYAN i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a
MICHAEL H. DANSBURY A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study...
APURVA GAGLANI

I opened myself to your silences.
MARGARET ATWOOD A godmother is always there and genuine.The help she has given will never be forgotten but will glis...
GARY F EVANS... If tomorrow was yesterday then yesterday would be tomorrow, if we think about the past why not think...
GARY F EVANS...

and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of...
BRET EASTON ELLIS

We should be ready for a change.
DEYTH BANGER

Im okay Im okay now.
But you really need to listen to me
'cause im telling you the trut...
GERARD WAY

Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES

Status quos are made to be broken.
RAY A. DAVIS

Im James Bond. Im Jason Bourne. Im Super-freaking-Mario come to life.
JOHN DAVID ANDERSON It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a...
ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
SUPERNA BATHEJA

The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
MAE WEST

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones
HELENA RUBINSTEIN

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana...
LESLIE MCINTYRE

Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky
DEBORAH KERR

Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk,...
PETRONIUS

If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't...
HELEN LAWRENSON

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g...
BETTY GRABLE

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl...
WASHINGTON IRVING

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the fi...
GILDA RADNER

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
MARY OLIVER The person that gives you a good book to read is more valuable than the one that gives you money,bec...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Endeavour to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gr...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good quote is far better than the best selling books.
ANUJ SOMANY It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever ...
DEBORAH MEIER

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as w...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN

You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. Bu...
JOHN PIPER

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because...
EDWARD EVERETT HALE Endeavor to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gre...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A man who loves a bad name cares less about the future of his great grand children.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is good to appreciate anothers good deeds, but let not your good deeds be known to others lest th...
APURVA GAGLANI If given an opportunity to head an establishment,resite this "A good name will last better for my fa...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you have inherited a bad name from your parent,edit it,by becoming good,but if you are lucky to h...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often...
MALCOLM COWLEY

Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all ...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging.
CAROLYN MACKLER They may not have enough of their own to take a stand, but they can do it if someone shows them how.
DAN GROAT You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Make a difference always and in all ways!
PETER STROPLE Is science fiction of today to be tomorrow's science fact, if we think of it the idea of the flip ph...
GARY F EVANS... The standard of a true leader is that he sets also his own rules than merely and blindly obeys the s...
ANUJ SOMANY A good name can open ways for your great grand children.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name is the only insurance we need against the monster called poverty.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The best inheritance a man can leave for his children is not diamond & platinum,but a good name.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) All the riches in life are incomparable to a good name.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a ...
MAYA ANGELOU Even if other things remains unspoken in your life,a good name will continually speak for you, even ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To know the hurt of what losing a loved one brings. Well put it this way time does not heal, you lea...
GARY F EVANS... When the prospects of fame fortune bring thought to a life of no worry, it brings other worries in t...
GARY F EVANS... The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) GOD IS ALWAYS WITH US HE'S NEVER TOOK A SICK DAY !
MITCHELL GREEN To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ...
GARY F EVANS...

Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a di...
CHAIM POTOK

I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An a...
ARTHUR MILLER Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.
MINOR MYERS

What thought or message would you put in a fortune cookie?
"Stop reading this. Eat the cookie a...
VERONICA ROTH The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Ho...
PHILIP K. DICK Sometimes trying to know someone so well is not always good.
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn’t know what I was supposed to say to her. M...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded.
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I misse...
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Cole lifted his hands off the roof of the Vol...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Flickering lights
anonymous doors
my heart escaping in drips
i'm still waking up
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your ent...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER And leaving you (there aren't words to untangle it)
Your life, fearful and immense and blossomi...
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER I walk through the seasons and always the birds
are singing and screaming and keening for love<...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Folded in my arms you're a butterfly in reverse
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sensitive," I tried.

Sam translated: "Squishy."

"Creative."

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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Crashing into the trembling void
Stretching my hand to you
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sam:"Okay, what words would you use then?" I leaned back in the seat, thinking, as Sam looked at me ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER How long?"

His smile was amazingly sweet. "The longest."

For ever?"

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Sam,” she said, and I crushed her to me.
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Casually, out of the view of Ronan, making sure Adam was still sleeping, Gansey dangled his hand bet...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I like you better this way." For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away; she wa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something."

"You'd talk abo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me w...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could st...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beau...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I didn't say I would start a yard."

"You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and yo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A m...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER That's a poor match, Sean Kendrick," says a voice at my elbow. It's the other sister from Fathom &am...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many read...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boy...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I found it."
"People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers."
"...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, th...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the t...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I think they're here because I thought they ought to be here," Gansey said.
Blue replied sarcas...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretende...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey's partying with his mother," Ronan said. He smelled like beer. "And Noah's fucking dead. But ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You missed World Hist."
"Did you get notes for me?"
"No. I thought you were dead in a ditc...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER From the passenger seat, Ronan began to swear at Adam. It was a long, involved swear, using every fo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever to...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You are being self-pitying."
"I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear."
...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again."
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Right,' he said. 'So it stands to reason there's something about the line that fortifies or protects...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Nothing had changed. Nothing.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was true that Blue was just shy of five feet and it was also true that she hadn't eaten her green...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

I can't change the way I'm made. I'm a performer, a singer, a werewolf, a sinner.

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I can't change the way I'm made. I'm a performer, a singer, a werewolf, a sinner.

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