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Twyla Tharp

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TONY VIGORITO Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA Yo, beautiful. Come pop this collar off me.”
Natalya hissed, “Are you mad?”
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EMMA CLINE it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication.
DEYTH BANGER I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure.
DEYTH BANGER This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
BRANDON SANDERSON Be yourself and people will like you.
JEFF KINNEY The best person I know is Myself.
JEFF KINNEY If you play football, then for every goal that you score, ask your self, what is the 'grudge of a li...
APURVA GAGLANI I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not e...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt...
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FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
AVIS COREA I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't want to be somebody's crush.if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES لم يكن بمقدوري سوى الهروب إلى عالمي الخاص: إلى الحلم. أت...
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ANKITA SINGHAL Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond.
ANGELICA HOPES Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate th...
ANN LANDERS You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
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OSCAR WILDE History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules!
DEYTH BANGER The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY Death is tough for the people left behind on earth.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
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STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's a ridiculous book, filled with wicked fantasies and silly notions and improbable romance. But y...
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FREDRIK BACKMAN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I opened myself to your silences.
MARGARET ATWOOD I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
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JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.
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JULIE BUNTIN She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
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GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

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