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you think you've never been wrong before?"-alex"sure i have why just last week I bought bobbi ...
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For...
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ERMA BOMBECK Discipline
I am old and I have had
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I'...
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And this tenderness was not likeThat which a certain poet
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You once told me some lives are worth more than others. How many deaths before the scales tipo...
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L...
JOHN MILTON
Yeah and its over before you know it, It all goes by so fast
Yeah the bad nights take for...
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There i...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON
Feyre Archeron,' the Suriel said again, gazing at the leafy canopy, the sky peeking through it. A pa... SARAH J. MAAS Drift me away along with the dust traveling to infinity.
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day after day,
eager to be shar...
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eat, baby.eat.
chew.
please.
I know it hurts. I know it doesn’t feel good.
Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion.And, as with all...
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AL HIRT The truth is,
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When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself,he is very careful about how much ...
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Flowing so freely with every drop
Let my every emotion wo...
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It was the exact oppositefor me. At first all I
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but soon I ...
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DEBASISH MRIDHA
How I'm glad to go back home!Once I truly have no more worry.
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I never knew that everything was falling through
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THE FRAY
To Your eyes a thousand years are like yesterday come and gone, no more than a watch in the night.
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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
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I measure every Grief I meetWith narrow, probing, Eyes;
I wonder if It weighs like Mine,<...
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She was always tryi...
JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN
The land was ours before we were the lands.She was our land more than a hundred years
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ROBERT FROST
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In Memoriam A.H.H. Section 5I sometimes hold it half a sin
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I’m not going anywhere.” Gently, he stroked her back, cradled her head. Was there anything more ... J.D. ROBB So you think you know the real meaning of fear?
Yeah, you think you do know, but I doubt it.
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that Bridge was...
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TEAGAN HUNTER I want to remember my past
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The image of my parents
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ANDY WEIR
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There was no water at my grandfather’swhen I was a kid and would go for it
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If you don't cry when you hit the floor,
It's called the ...
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Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;Stranger than fiction: if it could be told,...
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My faceless neighbor spoke up:“Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he wi...
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And all I can taste is this moment And all I can breathe is your life
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But, when the days of golden dreams had perished,And even Despair was powerless to destroy,
I thought about our last kiss, how...
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Don't drink too much.""When I can spell out your name in shot glasses, I'll stop."
"I'll ...
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my deli... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
Technically, I was trying to kill Puck. You just happened to be there. But yes, if I'd had the shot,... JULIE KAGAWA
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I used to wonder, why do the lines even e...
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Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man. MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH
MARY OLIVER 
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I had learned this lesson so many timesbefore. It was the great inner truth that
didn't r...
LISA KLEYPAS
Dark house, by which once more I standHere in the long unlovely street,
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ALFRED TENNYSON
Sometimes I wonder," Thomas murmured."Wonder what?"
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Everything is temporary, almost like a passing fase,
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NIKKI ROWE
Take off your shirt," I said, sitting up and pulling at the hem of the garment."Why?" he...
DIANA GABALDON I believe in you, my darling. I believe in you."
He closed his eyes.
And when he opened th...
ELIZABETH HOYT
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He didn’t want anyo...
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