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Sabrina: “But you don’t believe in marriage.”

Linus: “Yes, I do. It’s why I’ve never married.


Samuel Taylor

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They say to never look back.
But sometimes I do.
It’s gratifying to see how far I’ve ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Raven?'
Yes?'
What do you believe in?'
I believe in - finding out!
ELLEN SCHREIBER -You think I’ve got a big ego and an attitude problem?
-I don’t think you do, Carlos. I kno...
SIMONE ELKELES Unless you have the
courage to say ‘no’ to
the things you don’t want,
it’s ha...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Why do we have to do this in the middle of the night?” Taylor asked.
“Because we don’t wa...
MICHAEL GRANT Why don’t you purchase an Italian dictionary? I will assume the expense.”
“I have one,”...
JULIA QUINN I asked,”Are you going to pick up next time I call you?”
”I did this time didn’t I?”<...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I’ve considered everything you said earlier. I’ve made a decision. But first I’d like to expla...
LISA KLEYPAS I’m glad you’re quitting the bar."

"You are?"

"Yeah. I’ve never liked yo...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Don’t look so shocked. And please, please don’t scream. You and I both knew that this was coming...
VINCE LIBERATO When

When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know
any of us, what happens th...
MARY OLIVER For God’s sake. Don’t do that.”

“Don’t do what?”

“Smile.” TESSA DARE Walter Issacson biographer of Steve Jobs:

I remember sitting in his backyard in his garde...
WALTER ISAACSON Don’t worry…three vampire meanies and a horse won’t keep me away from you.”

Kali...
KAILIN GOW I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses...
If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Fifty?” Harry gasped.
“Fifty points each,” said Professor McGonagall, breathing heavily.<...
J.K. ROWLING I know
you deserve better than me. You think I don’t know that? But
if there was any w...
JAMIE MCGUIRE Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
No amount of money,
Can stop me from loving you,
CHRIS COLFER Of course men can’t know you when you’re unclean,’ said Hilda. ‘It says so in the Bible. Tha...
FAY WELDON But what you’re calling poetry is what everything is. It’s not even poetry — it’s seeing. Th...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS You can do things.
Do you know this?
Do you believe it?
You should.
It’s true...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH You wouldn’t dare!”
I cocked my head at him and thought about it.
“Why do people say...
GARON WHITED God, he’s such a cocky, arrogant bastard at times.
And I totally fancy him.
No I don�...
SAMANTHA TOWLE When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a b...
MARY OLIVER Oh, God, Francesca,Now there’s a good one.Why?Why? Why?” He gave each one a different tenor, as ...
JULIA QUINN "But you believe us."

"Yes, I do," said Dumbledore quietly. "But I have no power t...
J.K. ROWLING I’m well aware that this—that I—am the first man to ever do this to her. And yes, as a guy, th...
EMMA CHASE Yawn...

I believe that I love sleep
much more than anybody I’ve ever
met.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI April watched the rain a beat. “You need a lift to California, and you need money to do that. I’...
RENEE BLOSSOM Being a vampire is not a curse. It’s a disease,” Tessa filled in. “But they still can’t ente...
CASSANDRA CLARE Silly. Dark isn’t scary. Dark is safe.”
“Why?”
“I live in the dark all the time...
KIERSTEN WHITE I don’t like this,” his brother told him as they walked down the stairs.

“You don�...
G.A. AIKEN I love you, Eliza,” I said.
She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t li...
KURT VONNEGUT So it’s your death suit.”
“Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?”
“Yeah,”...
JOHN GREEN Every time I think I’m getting smarter I realize that I’ve just done something stupid. Dad says ...
KAREN MARIE MONING -Do you want me to leave?
-Yes
-Do you want me to stay?
-Yes
-Do you love me? MALAK EL HALABI One day I’ll get a tattoo for you.”
Warmth explodes in my chest, in awe that he would mark ...
KATIE MCGARRY Why are you being so nice to me?' I asked her.
'You know,' she said, 'when you say stuff like t...
SARAH DESSEN That easy, confident grin returned. “Don’t worry, it’s easily forgotten.”
“Well,” ...
RICHELLE MEAD I love you in–in every kind of way.’
‘I feel like that too . . .’ His voice is shocked ...
TABITHA SUZUMA Lula," I said, "do you ever think about getting married?"
I guess I do. Doesn't everybody?"
JACQUELINE KELLY Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?'
Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to...
J.D. SALINGER Poseidon raised his eyebrows as they shook hands. “Blowfish, did you say?”

"Ah, no. B...
RICK RIORDAN CUSTOMER: Do you have a copy of Nineteen Eighty Six?
BOOKSELLER: Nineteen Eighty Six?
CUST...
JEN CAMPBELL Things people say to depressives that they don’t say in other life-threatening situations:
MATT HAIG For you, my love, I would endeavor to pluck the stars from the sky, only to shower them at your feet...
SYLVAIN REYNARD There’s a gun in your desk. It’s fully loaded.”
“How do you know?” His frown deepens....
E.L. JAMES Do you know a cure for me?"

"Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water...
KAREN BLIXEN And when I don’t feel it, it’s pointless.
Think about getting up it’s pointless.
Thi...
SARAH KANE <...> I’ve
never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I neve...
MAGGIE SHAYNE Answers to Frequently Asked Questions:
Yes.
Yes.
No.
One time in high school. ELLEN DEGENERES It’s not about Al,” I snap. “It’s about everyone watching! Everyone who now sees
hurlin...
VERONICA ROTH I took a deep breath. 'For you I've got something better than love.'
What's that?'
I...tru...
AVI To lovers out there....

Pregnancy is the main reason why most couples are married today. ...
DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS It’s 11 am and I’m sitting in a restaurant
3 beers in. Believe me, even I’m surprised <...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS I believe the way to solve this dilemma is if you marry me, so I’ll always be close by.”
<...
LISA COOKE I believe in love at first sight…
But it’s not the first moment you lay eyes on a person, i...
RANATA SUZUKI I tried to warn you,

But girls never listen.

Got your innocence insured?
...
WENDY HIGGINS Don’t leave me,” he whispers.
“Oh, for crying out loud—no! I am not going to go!” I s...
E.L. JAMES Okay, okay.” I set my hand on top of his and guide it to my chest, so it’s right over my heart. ...
VERONICA ROTH Who am I, that you should love me?"
"You are My Queen," said Eugenides. She sat perfectly still...
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER Do you feel safe there?"
Immediately tears come down my face. "Yes."
"Why does that make y...
JOLENE PERRY ....LondonLane: I’m sure I don’t remember everything. I remember the future the way you remember...
CAT PATRICK I don’t understand why you insist on calling yourselves Three Little Piglettes,” Mum groans. “...
CLéMENTINE BEAUVAIS That’s so mature. I thought we were past junior high school.” - Arelia
“We may be, but bo...
KIRA SAITO Don’t cry for me, Grace. I’m not worth it. (Julian)
Yes you are! (Grace)
You are my sa...
SHERRILYN KENYON I don’t think that I’ve been in love as such
Although I liked a few folk pretty well
L...
NEIL GAIMAN Do you know a cure for me?
Why yes, he said, I know a cure for everything. Salt water.
Salt w...
ISAK DINESEN Darling,
do you remember
the man you married?
Touch me,
remind me who I am.
STANLEY KUNITZ Pye turned his paw over and chewed his claws. “Humph. What you think of me is none of my business....
LUGGS The secret is,” I say, whispering right into his ear, “that yours was the best kiss I’ve ever ...
LAUREN OLIVER I’ve memorized all the fish in the sea
I’ve memorized each opportunity strangled
and CHARLES BUKOWSKI Katniss: I’m coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home.
P...
SUZANNE COLLINS All right, so give me some idea of what you can do," says Haymitch.

I can’t do anything...
SUZANNE COLLINS Why d’you make me suffer?"
“Because I love you.”
Now it was his turn to get angry. �...
ITALO CALVINO So, how is it that you don’t have a girlfriend?” I asked boldly.
Joel shrugged.
“Hav...
SHAWN KIRSTEN MARAVEL Do you think I’m pretty?” I heard myself ask.
Something I couldn’t name flashed across h...
JEANIENE FROST As a kid, I never was the type to color in the lines.
I used to wonder, why do the lines even e...
JUSTIN WETCH Every day is getting worse
Do the same things and they hurt
I don't know if I should cry GRACE NORWICH I hit my chest with my fist, accusing my body of failing. I’ve had eighty years to adjust and ...
KIERA CASS I was heading for the city in the south, of which they used to say in our village:
‘There are...
FRANZ KAFKA Do you forget that I am your sister?”
“No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to for...
GEORGETTE HEYER Why are we sneaking out in the night?” Jack repeated.
“I already explained,” Sam snapped....
MICHAEL GRANT Listen to me. When a man wakes, he wakes wanting. He wakes hard and rude and aching with need.” He...
TESSA DARE Dear Jack,

I love you, too.

And I think I know the secret to a long and happy ...
LISA KLEYPAS I’ve been sick for so long I don’t
remember a time when I wasn’t.
ALISON G. BAILEY Okay, I’ve got the hidden microphones with GPS here,” Agent Bounter said. “Let’s get one on ...
JENNIFER LANE A Very Short Poem for Poor Lovers

You’ve got nothing,
I’ve got nothing,
And...
ARZUM UZUN I don’t think we’re in love anymore.
I think about sex constantly.
I hate your parents...
CAITLYN SIEHL Are you afraid?"

"Yes."

"Energy never stops, remember. It just changes forms."...
AMIE KAUFMAN I'm coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home. Peeta hesitates, t...
SUZANNE COLLINS Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he h...
A.A. MILNE Mackenzie raises her hand proudly. “I have a bagina.”
I smirk. “Yes, you do sweetheart. ...
EMMA CHASE Lermontov: Why do you want to dance?
Vicky: Why do you want to live?
Lermontov: Well, I do...
THE RED SHOES Don’t just exist; do something meaningful with your life. Discover a problem and fix it.

ISRAELMORE AYIVOR You have to carry the fire."
I don't know how to."
Yes, you do."
Is the fire real? Th...
CORMAC MCCARTHY 7am

They said that I’d forget you,
and I knew it wasn’t true.
But sometimes...
COCO J. GINGER Breaking the circle”

My eyes darken when I see my new lover. Fresh prey.
My body d...
ASPER BLURRY Okay, I thought wolves had packs. Do you have a pack?”
“Not in the traditional sense.” CARRIE JONES So say I’m your mom.'
'What?' I said.
'I’m your mom,' he repeated. 'Now tell me you wa...
SARAH DESSEN

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And all the boards did shrink.
Water, water everywhere,
Nor any d...
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, w...
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a bli...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They...
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on <...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of...
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks o...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Never, believe me, Appear the Immortals, Never alone.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
No...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or an...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagin...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Treading beneath their feet all visible things, As steps that upwards to their Father's throne ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Those holies of themselves a shape As of an arbor took.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Ah! replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air? Choose thou, whatever suits the ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Iago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to her daughter, that her daughter's d...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Ancestral voices prophesying war.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book t...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if wit...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, t...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Five miles meandering with mazy motion,
Through dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the ca...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE All thoughts, all passions, all delightsWhatever stirs this mortal frameAll are but ministers of Lov...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Our myriad-minded Shakespeare.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE And the spring comes slowly up this way.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Summer has set in with its usual severity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers of...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is s...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry: the best words in the best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The bride hath paced into the hall, / Red as a rose is she.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: / At one stride comes the dark.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the br...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE He saw a cottage with a double coach house, A cottage of gentility; And the Devil did grin, for his ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with mus...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale -- my dreams become the substances of my life.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It was a miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A savage place! as holy and enchanted / As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted / By woman wailing...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman wor...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Knight's bones are dust, / And his good sword rust; - / His soul is with the saints, I trust.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weap...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the m...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The one red leaf, the last of its clan, / That dances as often as dance it can, / Hanging so light, ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the fi...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE No man does anything from a single motive
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discov...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE We were a ghastly crew.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It is an ancient mariner, / And he stoppeth one of three.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE