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Nite Owl II: But the country's disintegrating. What's happened to America? What's happened to the American dream?

The Comedian: It came true. You're lookin' at it.


Alan Moore

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Our war of limbs

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Bom Bom...

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To just let it tell <...
COLLEEN HOOVER My name is Olivia King

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My mother bought me a balloon. I r...
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Measuring
Out
Their
Highest
Effo...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Easter is…
Joining in a birdsong,
Eying an early sunrise,
Smel...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH I got schooled this year
by
a
boy.

A boy that I'm seriously, dee...
COLLEEN HOOVER So I'm not about to apologize for loving all these things about you, no matter the reasons or the ci...
COLLEEN HOOVER It’s worth all the aches,
All the tears,
the mistakes…
COLLEEN HOOVER Aaron: Dude, one thing the guy said is you don’t taunt voodoo.
Zak: Am I taunti...
ZAK BAGANS Life wants you to fight it.
Learn how to make it your own.
COLLEEN HOOVER Where lies your text?
Viola: In Orsino's bosom.
Olivia: In his bosom! In wha...
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PABLO NERUDA Funeral Blues


W. H. AUDEN Clenched Soul

PABLO NERUDA We live in deeds


PHILIP JAMES BAILEY The Night in Isla Negra

PABLO NERUDA Love Sonnet XI

PABLO NERUDA Nobody ever called me any OH MY GOD you mean that guy that one that set himself on FIRE JOSS WHEDON Note to self ;
He doesn't care anymore.
LYLA TYELA BELIKOV love, n.

I'm not even going to try.
DAVID LEVITHAN Olivia: How does he love me?
Viola: With adoration, with fertile tears,
With...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Finagle's Eighth Rule:
Teamwork is essential. It allows you to blame someone else.
PROVERB Some say freedom is a gift placed in our hands by our forefathers.
Some say freedom is a...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Mÿnna tachton gernast spuho somen gelen Emÿna daÿda"

[modern: Minä tahdon k...
CHRISTINE WULFF At Night

Love said, "Wake still and think of me,"
Sleep, "Close your eyes til...
SARA TEASDALE They'll use guns and they'll use words, and the worst part of all is that you might listen wh...
ROANNA SYLVER Why did the mushroom go to the party?
Because he's a fungi!
ONE DIRECTION Yahweh: You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be.

Lucif...
MIKE CAREY Biology
The film turns out to be about bees. It is a film about a bee center. How crap i...
LOUISE RENNISON McCoy: Oh, there isn't any shortage of views clamoring to challenge my own. That's what we ca...
REBECCA GOLDSTEIN A Word is Dead

A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.

I sa...
EMILY DICKINSON DAD: Why didn't you say this when it happened?
ME: It's complicated.
Don't they know that ...
A.S. KING better, adj. and adv.

Will it ever get better?
It better.
Will it ever...
DAVID LEVITHAN In this world . . .

It's Heaven when:
The French are chefs
The British a...
HIDEKAZ HIMARUYA yearning, n. and adj.

At the core of this desire is the belief that ...
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At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled
after a...
MARY OLIVER Q: Why do you blog?

A: Partly to make Butterflies and Wheels more frequentl...
OPHELIA BENSON exacerbate, v.

I believe your exact words were: "You're getting too emotion...
DAVID LEVITHAN corrode, v.

I spent all this time building a relationship. Then one night I...
DAVID LEVITHAN Hanlon's Razor:
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupid...
ANON. The Cloudy Vase

Past time, I threw the flowers out,
washed out the cloudy vas...
JANE HIRSHFIELD Nathan "N.R." Gaddis did not say ::

2109 fellow Goodreaders [can’t be wrong] gave [K...
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CHARLES DE LINT Mother Fuckers. They're going to feel pretty stupid when they find out.
They're fucking with th...
ROBERT KIRKMAN If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS suffuse, v.

I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your ha...
DAVID LEVITHAN Four lines, and the world went quiet.

I'm sorry for telling everyone about your mum PATRICK NESS I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
CHARLES M. SCHULZ She looked across the room at Will , she wasn't sure why, only to find that he w...
CASSANDRA CLARE A Man Said to the Universe

A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!” STEPHEN CRANE History is:

+ the lies of the victors

+ the self-delusions of the defea...
BARNES JULIAN The ocean burned.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
AMBROSE BIERCE You think I tell you stories to teach you lessons? the monster said. You think I ha...
PATRICK NESS The Uses Of Sorrow

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved on...
MARY OLIVER OLYMPAS:
There is one doubt. When souls attain
Such an unimagined gain
Shall n...
ALEISTER CROWLEY That's not the same. What happened to you, to your species, it's... it doesn't even compare.'
'...
BECKY CHAMBERS Edward chuckled into her mouth.
“Like that, do you?” he murmured. “So do I.” KRISTEN CASEY breathtaking, adj.

Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour be...
DAVID LEVITHAN And what exactly do you think this proves?" he spits. "You've got power, but you don't know what to ...
PATRICK NESS Late Fragment

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I...
RAYMOND CARVER I got an A on the third quiz in American history,
an A,
dammit.
Last time I got a ...
THALIA CHALTAS Harlem

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a ra...
LANGSTON HUGHES Saddest Poem
PABLO NERUDA Ἀποσκότησόν μου
Διογένης ο Κυνικός WHO CALLS UPON THE HIGH WARLOCK?
CASSANDRA CLARE Ebb

I know what my heart is like
Since your love died:
It is like a holl...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY misgivings, n.

Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted...
DAVID LEVITHAN We live through the belief of children...Regicide is suicide, citizens. Inscribe that ...
BILL WILLINGHAM Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?'
Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he mutt...
KIM HARRISON Thank you, Edward. You really are special. Being able to create something so wonderful.....But it's ...
HIROMU ARAKAWA In the Desert

In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squ...
STEPHEN CRANE But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? the monster said, bending down so it's face was close to...
PATRICK NESS Holy Hawt Chemisty, Batman!
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Résumé
Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cau...
DOROTHY PARKER A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in w...
VICTOR HUGO This is Just to Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Do not blame the local groups for B&B productions mishap.
JOE JAMES Chapter 1.
He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion...no, make t...
WOODY ALLEN Now, where are [Mexican illegal immigrants] fleeing from? Mostly from Central America, where they’...
NOAM CHOMSKY libidinous, adj.

I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor....
DAVID LEVITHAN Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium.
Let us...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Friendship, 'the wine of life,' said Boswell, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be thus continuall...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door."<...
J.D. SALINGER When words fail music speaks.
IRENA HUANG If tears can b written pains can b shared
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Much Madness is divinest Sense —
To a discer...
EMILY DICKINSON We think that almost all industries would have some role in the 'B-to-B' economy.
JAMIE FRIEDMAN There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love.

COLLEEN HOOVER We are buying B- malls in the hopes of turning them in B+.
MARSHALL LOEB He is sorry-
For everything-
For Prentisstown-
For Viola-
For Ben-
F...
PATRICK NESS Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowabl...
AMBROSE BIERCE The two pillars of 'political correctness' are:
a) willful ignorance
b) a steadfast refusal ...
GEORGE MACDONALD The greatest fear of Jonathan is the love he feels for his sister.
CASSANDRA CLARE Every new & successful example therefore of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and c...
JAMES MADISON abyss, n.

There are times when I doubt everything. When I regret everything...
DAVID LEVITHAN Eve: All this riot and uproar, V... is this Anarchy? Is this the Land of Do-As-You-Please? ALAN MOORE

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Etrigan: Think you G...
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ALAN MOORE Faith is for sissies who daren't go and look for themselves.
ALAN MOORE Places don’t stay where you left them. You go back there, anywhere, and even if it looks exactly h...
ALAN MOORE Each day and every deed’s eternal, little boy. Live them in such a way that you can bear to live w...
ALAN MOORE It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.
ALAN MOORE If gods are transcendent ideas, then the idea of a god IS a god.
ALAN MOORE When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could ...
ALAN MOORE Fiction and fact: only madmen and magistrates cannot discriminate between them.
ALAN MOORE Star light, star bright,
The first star I see tonight;
I wish I may, I wish I might,
...
ALAN MOORE When the gap between the world of the city and the world my grandfather had presented to me as right...
ALAN MOORE It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everyb...
ALAN MOORE No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.
ALAN MOORE See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum... and one night, one night they decide they don'...
ALAN MOORE Is it possible, I wonder, to study a bird so closely, to observe and catalogue its peculiarities in ...
ALAN MOORE Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be availa...
GWEN MOORE Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best se...
HENRY MOORE You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
MICHAEL MOORE The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill ...
HENRY MOORE If you ain't got your black hat, there ain't no use in filling out an application.
GREG MOORE