My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what you'd call choosy.


Chuck Palahniuk

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[I could not lose unless I was] caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.
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The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.
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I AM FREE.
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No suspects. No persons of interest. Just a girl who was alive one day and dead the next.
CHARLIE DONLEA
Im not your biggest girly girl.
MAGGIE SIFF
You’re not just any girl. You’re my girl.
SAMANTHA TOWLE
Im looking for a girl who's fun to be around.
ROSS LYNCH
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Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased. I hea...
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I could be dead right now.
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What a long, strange trip it's been.
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Yeah, Badu, all of that peace that you
be talkin' about, we got to fight first. This is the st...
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How bout we start / with a salad, a fresh bed of lettuce with croutons / Later we can play a game of...
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As artists we have a responsibility to organize and ensure that funds we raise for this cause are di...
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Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right.
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Wipeout.
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You’re probab...
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You can't call her a girl hockey player. She's a hockey player who just happens to be a girl.
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I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.
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My name is Katniss Everdeen.
Why am I not dead?
I should be dead.
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I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.
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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
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I wish...I wish I were dead...”
“And what use would that be to anyone?
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You're not dead. You're too goddamn annoying to be dead.
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Grant: Any other girl in the world have said yes.

Sydney: I'm not any other girl.
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Quirky is what a guy would call a girl he doesn't understand.
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Those who have no sense of posterity or any concern for future generations are the ones who are real...
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Fuck a Girl in a Right intention is better'
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Can you be a girl for a few seconds?"
"I'm always a girl" I frown.
"You know what I mean. ...
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In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl'
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God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbor...
ANI DIFRANCO
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Everything you love hurts. But everything that hurts gives you love some day.
HTL GIRL
Listen to everything and everybody BUT, only believe half of what you hear because we, as humans, li...
SUPER GIRL
I make no apologies for loving you....even when you are being an asshole. Everyone needs love aftera...
WENDY GIRL
Try to give the respect that you would like to have given, to everyone that you encounter.
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Even in the darkest of times, there is ALWAYS hope. For without darkness, there cannot be light!
SUPER GIRL
There would be nothing to gain by sowing a field of wheat… if the harvest did not return more than...
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Remember, you are your own best friend, so you'd better take care of yourself first
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I don't have PMS, I'm naturally bitchy!
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Men are like disposable lighters...When the one you have stops lighting your fire, there are a milli...
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I can't taste your lips....can you do that for me?
WENDY GIRL
Be yourself; who decides what "normal" is anyhoo?
SUPER GIRL
we all have different colors that we wear...it would be nice if we all accepted that and got rid of ...
SUPER GIRL
To fail is not a character flaw, just simply knowledge gained.
SUPER GIRL
Everything you need to survive in this world lives right inside you, you just have to be still for a...
SUPER GIRL
We don’t talk anymore because you don’t put in the effort, why should I? Karma is a bigger bitch...
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Making many mistakes
Doesn't make you a failure
It makes you become more successful
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Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret.
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My heart is dead but the dead still cries.
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Every woman is a girl, but not every girl is necessarily a lady.
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Hey, thanks for stopping by," Howard said. "I'd offer you some tea and cookies, but all we have is b...
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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
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Not to my little girl.
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I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead.
WOODY ALLEN
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead- not sick, not wounded - dead.
WOODY ALLEN
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
WOODY ALLEN
Three can keep a secret, if two are dead.
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I remember seeing her in "Beautiful Girls" and "The Professional" and being like, This girl is geniu...
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People are dead because of what this son of a bitch said. How could he be credible now?
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Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
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I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next t...
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In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then peop...
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Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
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The things you used to own, now they own you.
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For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it se...
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No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood ed...
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Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justifie...
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Hysteria is only possible with an audience.
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Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have ...
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Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things th...
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With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vo...
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The things you own end up owning you.
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No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
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We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depre...
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We just had a near-life experience!
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This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you thei...
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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
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If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
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Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfec...
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Masochism is a valuable job skill.
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Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.
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Which is worse: Hell or nothing?
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People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distrac...
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You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sof...
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Real discoveries come from chaos.
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The future is just wasted on some people.
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You can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.
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If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t
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There’s always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story
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Us. God's forgotten Science Fair project, left to grow mold. God's goldfish, ignored until we're for...
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As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beat...
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You are not special. Your are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic...
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I tell everybody, i'm tired of being jerked around, okay? so lets just not pretend. i don't have fuc...
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The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. without access to true chaos, we'...
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