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He's such a hustler. He's always been like that. He's a very underrated star in the NBA. I think he'...
KATE HUDSON When failure is demonized, people will try to avoid it at all costs—even when it represents nothin...
STEVEN D. LEVITT When the options are few, we can be happy with what we choose since we are confident that it is the ...
SHEENA IYENGAR But as history clearly shows, most people, whether because of nature or nurture, generally put their...
STEVEN D. LEVITT People living godly will dwell on high. Meaning wealth, honour, prosperity, fame, elevation, joy etc...
SUNDAY ADELAJA The Internet doesn’t love you or need you – but your family does.
JAMES CHARTRAND stunning ethical breach that cries out for an immediate investigation.
KARL ROVE You all had something to do with keeping me employed.
KARL ROVE People are going to see the candidate as he or she is at the end of the parade,
KARL ROVE It's been a long time and a whole lot has happened, and it's really a pleasure and a great opportuni...
KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR Nu-i nimic, mi-e mai uşor pe suflet dacă plâng...
ANTON CHEKHOV Our prayers are with the family members, friends and colleagues of the seven astronauts. Those we lo...
KANSAS Thank god im not too cool for the safebelt.
KANYE WEST Variety may be the spice of life, but consistency pays the bills.
DOUG COOPER Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather...
DOUG COOPER All that remains is to forge the #commitment. Regardless of how right everything feels, words never ...
DOUG COOPER No, we aren't going to hurt anyone, I can tell you that,
KANSAS The amazing thing is that this woman never gets really depressed, ... She feels confident. You watch...
JULIANNE MOORE I’m not just blowing smoke when I say that I hope this book and the story it tells helps inspire m...
EARL CHINNICI Positive affirmations are powerful, but they can be overrun by complaining and negativity if you all...
GUDJON BERGMANN The thing that kept bringing us back to Pete's movie is that it was a story about real people. It (a...
BEN AFFLECK I was being strong. Even though I felt weak.
AMANDA HOWELLS She was so thin I could probably deck her on the side of the head with a pack of Marlboro Lights and...
AMANDA HOWELLS For what is it to be blind, but to find safety in the darkness and to become the spouse of habit who...
JOY PAGE I doubt I would ever be missed. Noted absent, charged delinquent, reprimanded but never missed.
MARIA V. SNYDER Exactly. You can shoulder all the blame and become a martyr. Provided anyone knows what or who you'r...
MARIA V. SNYDER You don't need to be 'straight' to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
BARRY GOLDWATER If someone's life is not enriched by their time with you, then you're not doing something right.
OSAYI EMOKPAE LASISI Bitterness is the cancer of bones.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Democracy is cancerous, and bureaus are its cancer. A bureau takes root anywhere in the state, turns...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Since cancer is an anaerobic growth, enhancing aerobic metabolism in a cancer patient is like shinin...
PATRICK QUILLIN I know I'm the one who put limits on this... this thing," she said, and bit her lower lip, suddenly ...
JILL SHALVIS Indie authors write, design, sell. Like magic, skip one and you make must read vanish.
TEMPLE EMMET WILLIAMS According to accepted newspaper clichés, we all go down fighting. The other day I even read that an...
PIERRE BERTON Love will cost you dearly.
And it will break your heart.
But in the end, it will save the ...
SARAH THEBARGE Love and laughter are stronger than cancer.
TANYA MASSE Cancer is WAY too serious to be taken seriously all the time.
TANYA MASSE I knew in that moment, we were never meant to surrender our childlike innocence, to trade a world in...
CHRISTINA CARSON Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many avail...
BRENT GREEN I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
BARBARA SHER I'd like to see the developers' response to the neighborhood's concerns.
BARBARA SMITH I just can't understand why something like this would happen in the neighborhood. It makes you want ...
BARBARA SMITH Miss Althea?"
"I don't blame you, Jesse," she said at last, taking control of her whirling emot...
PAMELA MORSI It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE [If you hear a] story about how eating sausage leads to anal cancer, you will be skeptical, because ...
DAVID MCRANEY It is not going to be measuring the Maine Learning Results, the questions are based on national stan...
BARBARA JORDAN ...and that's how the tournament started, the Million Dollar World Series of Monopoly...

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JANE SMILEY We watched the swimmers and sunbathers and I thought about this. Had I faced all the facts? It seeme...
JANE SMILEY It really was an incredible creature as frightening as it is. It was his domain, and he was the boss...
JONATHAN GENANT I didn't feel any pain. Obviously, I've got to be ready and build off these kinds of games.
JONATHAN GIRARD It feels like the music and the songs are blowing in the wind down there. It's so peaceful. I'm happ...
BARBARA HARRIS I'm not as fast as some of those guys [who are option quarterbacks], but as long as you operate it r...
JONATHAN WILSON I don't think there's a soul in the city that won't like at least one of these artists.
JONATHAN WITZ There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but t...
HARUKI MURAKAMI as a president, it goes with territory.
BARBARA BUSH The Red Hat-Intel Solution Acceleration Program will give customers real-time access to the critical...
JON BORK Nothing's coming in. I've been on the phone with the National Weather Service all day.
JOHNNY WINGERS We noticed it, obviously. It opens up an NCAA berth for another league team.
JOHNNY WOLF There?s not too many girls who are going to push her around.
JON BENSON [NBC had better hope so. After TNT's largely NBC-produced coverage of the first two rounds, NBC will...
JOHNNY MILLER That way citizens of Angelina County know which way I stand on issues.
JOHNNY WEISMULLER JR Yeah, well, I'm not gonna be in theaters for a while. You'll have a whole year without me.
JOHNNY KNOXVILLE It's just such a good town. I always get sad when I leave, ... I play really sad music all the way o...
JOHNNY KNOXVILLE Each night (Scott) would sit at home obsessively pouring over the script while I'm down at the bar k...
JOHNNY KNOXVILLE Dr. Fortunato," Kristine shot back at Laurie, her resentment undisguised. "You don't know how we do ...
LISA SCOTTOLINE Teach me to sing and recite,
To whistle and jingle and strum.

Teach me to color and ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Every moment in our lives brings the opportunity to love and appreciate this beautiful magical life.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Moments never stay, whether or not you ask them, they do not care, no moment cares, and the ones you...
CATHERINE LACEY You can't jump off a cliff when you have already fallen off a bigger one.
KAMI GARCIA إن الحرية لا يصنعها مرسوم يُصدره برلمان
إنها تُصنع ف...
مصطفى محمود لقد نظر الله الى قلوبهم فعلم ما في داخلها وأيقظهم.. هو ا�...
أحمد خيري العمري Mary? She's mine.
Yeah, but we had that thing...
SHE'S MINE!
LOUIS TOMLINSON Criticism is the fountainhead of control.
SUSAN FORWARD attempts to nail down “who we really are” most often serve as rhetorical pawns in unwinnable arg...
MAGGIE NELSON They laughed, carefully; it was straining, this proving one’s humanity to one another.
KAREN E. BENDER sentimentality is only emotion you haven’t proven to the reader—emotion without vivid evidence.
MARY KARR Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night JOHN KEATS نعم .. سنة الحياة أن يتقلب المرء بين حُلوةٍ ومُرةٍ .. أنا ...
محمد عبدالرحمن العريفي - Que devient une étoile qui meurt ?
- Un rêve qui vit.
PIERRE BOTTERO Quand je vous ai dit que vous aviez une prédisposition surnaturelle aux catastrophes, ce n'était p...
CHRISTELLE DABOS பெண், விரல் நீட்டிக் குற்றம் சுமத்தி�...
BALAKUMARAN Memories
fall
like
snowflakes
upon
my dreams.

The snowflak...
LISA SCHROEDER ...when I was a kid, Toronto streets were deserted and quiet on Sundays, except for the sound of chu...
JOHN GEDDES Sometimes those experiences crowd back upon the memory, and the past flashes back like a distant pea...
WHIPPLESNAITH We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform ...
MIRA BARTOK والذاكرة البشرية إذا تهيّأ لها فمٌ ينكشها جيدًا خرجت ب�...
محمد حسن علوان We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have bur...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Unhappy memories are persistent. They're specific, and it's the details that refuse to leave us alon...
CAMERON DOKEY From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpo...
DAVID NICHOLLS I never did try to make my daddy understand why I left for the army the way I did. I just thought, b...
LISA WINGATE To my mind's eye, my buried memories of Brandham Hall are like effects of chiaroscuro, patches of li...
L.P. HARTLEY ...for the first time I couldn't feel really interested in my mother's letter. The small concerns of...
L.P. HARTLEY It already smells like sex in here, and you're both still dressed. You have no idea how messed up th...
RACHEL VINCENT My hands wrapped around his waist, traveling up the broad expanse of his back, mooth and hard, and.....
RACHEL VINCENT May be you are gone,but that doesn’t make me come back
MUNIA KHAN I think that personality traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them...
TAYLOR SWIFT It's all right to have our mite boxes for the heathen, and send missionaries to them. They're far aw...
L.M. MONTGOMERY He might make wrong choices.” “Oh.” Jonas was silent for a minute. “Oh, I see what you mean....
LOIS LOWRY Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-...
LOIS LOWRY If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways.
LOIS LOWRY He saw nothing except the endless ribbon of road unfolding in twisting narrow curves.
LOIS LOWRY But how did you know? How did you know the pilot was lost?” “I didn’t. I used my wisdom, from ...
LOIS LOWRY They can't help it. They know nothing
LOIS LOWRY No one mentioned such things; it was not a rule, but was considered rude to call attention to things...
LOIS LOWRY Call me The Giver,” he told Jonas.
LOIS LOWRY But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've c...
LOIS LOWRY He sat in his dwelling alone, watching through the window, seeing children at play, citizens bicycli...
LOIS LOWRY The freedom to choose where to spend those hours had always seemed a wonderful luxury to Jonas; othe...
LOIS LOWRY Jonas was careful about language.
LOIS LOWRY It was so - oh, I wish language were more precise! The red was so beautiful!
LOIS LOWRY You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is p...
JON STEWART We hope to help you discover Your Self; inspire you to live more passionate and sensitive life; help...
NATAšA PANTOVIć I want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good. To be admired, loved, and respected. To...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT The Saddest Thing
There was someone I knew, a long time ago. I was so in love with him I couldn...
LANG LEAV So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with yo...
JOJO MOYES Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting dam...
ALAIN DE BOTTON Quotes help us understand , inspire , motivate ,clarify and show our approach to things around , thi...
TAKYOU ALLAH CHEIKH MALAYNINE Let silence take you to the core of life.
RUMI For readers, one of life’s most electrifying discoveries is that they are readers—not just capab...
STEPHEN KING A minute or so passed by--not long, but long enough to make me wonder whether Oliver was setting up ...
LINDSAY RIBAR They lived their lives only for the hour that lay ahead of them.
ANN PATCHETT The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said:
"I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed...
PAULO COELHO Waiting leads to wondering.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA But when they changed their plans time and time again, the dates became confused, the periods were m...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ The second this interminable wait ended, it would all start to fall away into the past, to become un...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG Lucky's monologue: "(...)the strides of physical culture the practice of sports such as tennis footb...
SAMUEL BECKETT The hours are slow in passing as they always are when you are waiting in fear for you know not what:...
AMITAV GHOSH Ambition had never troubled me, so I decided to begin by watching life at my leisure for a few years...
STEFAN ZWEIG Who knew why they waited, I thought, understanding that I, too, had it in me to wait. To expect chan...
RACHEL KUSHNER Thus the effect of his gift of wisdom is to make us more humble, more joyful, more godly, more quick...
J.I. PACKER Well, he’d actually never heard anybody say it. But he felt that it should be true. There
GARY PAULSEN He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forge...
GARY PAULSEN Just because you don't want to see something doesn't mean that it will go away. Do you think inhuman...
BETHANY GRIFFIN A special gift for a special Lady.
ANNE BISHOP Don’t let them win, Marian. Don’t let them make you less than you are. Don’t let them take awa...
ANNE BISHOP Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. ...
ANN BRASHARES I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.
NUALA O'FAOLAIN I just don't understand it," said Klaus, which was not something he said very often.
Violet nod...
LEMONY SNICKET What does Mrs Preston want to go abroad for?' asked Mr Leslie.

'I think her doctor wanted...
ANGELA THIRKELL Some live for their own joy and pleasure.
Some live to ease the burdens of others.  
The...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Everywhere I looked, hope existed - but only as some kind of green shoot in the midst of struggle. I...
JOAN D. CHITTISTER How many of us suffered to death?
How many of them gained more wealth?

How many of u...
RIXA WHITE If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?
JODI PICOULT If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.
RUMI Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
QUENTIN CRISP Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Namun pendaki pertama tahu apa yang hebat : menerima tantangan untuk terus melangkah maju. Ia tahu t...
PAULO COELHO İnsanlar para istifliyor, pahalı yerlere girip çıkıyor ve böylece zengin kişiler oldukların�...
PAULO COELHO O Universo sempre nos ajuda a lutar por nossos sonhos, por mais tolos que possam parecer. Porque sã...
PAULO COELHO Savoir qu'aucun jour n'est semblable à un autre, et que chaque matin comporte son miracle particuli...
PAULO COELHO ينبغي أن نجازف ..فنحن لا ندرك حقّاً معجزة الحياة إلاّ إذ...
PAULO COELHO En los cuentos infantiles, las princesas besan a los sapos, que se transforman en príncipes. En la ...
PAULO COELHO Que mis lágrimas corran así bien lejos, para que mi amor nunca sepa que un día lloré por él.
PAULO COELHO Но любовта винаги е нова.Няма значение дали обичаме ве�...
PAULO COELHO Voleti znaci ostvariti zajednistvo s drugim i otkriti u njemu bozansku iskru.
PAULO COELHO Yo necesitaba un amor posible, mi corazón y mi cuerpo estaban todavía vírgenes, y un príncipe en...
PAULO COELHO God, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in the middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes.
PAULO COELHO Porque, en la vida real, el amor necesita ser posible. Incluso aunque no haya una retribución inmed...
PAULO COELHO There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end.
PAULO COELHO Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing what to do is the worst kind of suffering...
PAULO COELHO Todos los días Dios nos da, junto con el sol, un momento en el que es posible cambiar todo lo que n...
PAULO COELHO ورددت في قرارة نفسي : حطم هذه الكأس ، لأن تحطيمها بادرة �...
PAULO COELHO But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we ...
PAULO COELHO In the United States radio listeners were gathered up by networks that saw them as consumers to be s...
TOM STANDAGE Take this one in my belly. He (or she) is determined to be here. I can feel the force of his being. ...
REBECCA WALKER 10. Both the North Tower and the South Tower collapsed just as their respective fires were dying dow...
DAVID RAY GRIFFIN A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Womanhood comes with its peculiar burdens, among them the constant reminder of a subordinate status ...
A. IGONI BARRETT What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
BRET EASTON ELLIS And for those of us from communities with historic collective trauma, we must understand that each o...
WALIDAH IMARISHA Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be...
LAO TZU AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN'T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER My mother practiced hours every day, hours as painful to hear as to play. At first everybody thought...
HELEN DEWITT In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we c...
JOAN HALIFAX You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you ...
JAMES BALDWIN We like what we like, we want what we want, and nobody needs to give us permission to feel that way!
SCOTT LYNCH Intentions must mature into commitments if we are to become persons with definition, with character,...
EUGENE H. PETERSON Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The ...
JAMES BALDWIN I abhorred weakness of any kind but most particularly in my tea.
DEANNA RAYBOURN that is the thing about selfish people. they
gamble entire beings. entire souls to please their...
RUPI KAUR Draco Malfoy is the most beautiful person in the world.
FAITH GUNASAKARA ليس الفضيلة تجنب الرزيلة، الفضيلة في ألا تشتهيها
أحلام مستغانمي لو حدثَ واجتمعنا
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NOUR ALBAWARDI Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
OSCAR WILDE The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word sugge...
A.P. HERBERT Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Print: to see one's name in print! - Some people commit a crime for no other reason
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Look back, and smile on perils past.
SIR WALTER SCOTT In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted an...
SAUL BELLOW Say what you mean, but don't say it mean.
LILLY SINGH That's too early to check out. I would like to have (a backup) set up and running.
RICHARD AHLQUIST Vis galėjai tikėtis, kad tavęs nepastebės arba palaikys mirusiu - paprasčiausias gamtos dėsnis...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS The Waves.
EUDORA WELTY The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And...
TERENCE MCKENNA To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
ELLEN GLASGOW She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were ...
P. G. WODEHOUSE We women, me and you. Tell me something real. Don’t just say I’m grown and ought to know. I don�...
TONI MORRISON Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complic...
TONI MORRISON About this grass now. I didn't finish telling. It grows so close it's guaranteed to kill off clover ...
RAY BRADBURY ...the change was adjustment without improvement.
TONI MORRISON We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISON It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new mo...
GRANT MORRISON Sometimes... sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We're inside a huge head that dreams us all int...
GRANT MORRISON You gwyne to have considerable trouble in yo' life, en considerable joy. Sometimes you gwyne to git ...
MARK TWAIN A black raven flew past me and landed on the back of the couch.
Roman slapped his hand over his...
ILONA ANDREWS No.” Roman got up off his chair. “The wedding night is for you and Curran. The wedding is for ev...
ILONA ANDREWS Ernest Hemingway was in love with Africa and as with others in such a state of emotion ... he constr...
NADINE GORDIMER People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
NADINE GORDIMER I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
NADINE GORDIMER The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched ...
RAY BRADBURY When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have ...
ILONA ANDREWS No misery compares to staring at a clear night's sky with arms stretched toward a coveted star, wish...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these ann...
J.R. WARD Any day above ground is a good one.
A woman's beauty is her inherent ability to better a man in ...
DON WILLIAMS, JR. It just goes to show that no matter how great a nail you give humanity, we’ll manage to hammer it ...
ILONA ANDREWS Many mothers are unaware they have the power themselves to provide enough milk for their own baby, l...
MARY WEBER On the highest point of the bare opposite ridge, now curtained in driving storm-cloud, towered in gi...
MARY WEBB I voted correctly, I voted for who I wanted to vote for, in the right district.
MARY STIDHAM What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don’t need to be wasted...
DOUG COOPER Safe? What can be classified as safe? Everything we do in life has a risk. Just getting out of bed e...
BRANDY NACOLE Very special credit is due to the legendary Ed Ward, Founder and President of Irish Fest and to Jane...
MARY MCALEESE I think it's unconscionable what's happened to her. She is emotionally distraught,
MARY MCCARTY We knew we were the underdog. We all pushed our hardest, but East is a strong team.
MARK HELLER I have a vamp body for you," Andrea said. "It's in the freezer."
I gave her a nice smile. "You ...
ILONA ANDREWS So the boy’s life is still in jeopardy,” Ghastek said.
Thank you, Captain Obvious. ILONA ANDREWS It’s all fun and games until the drunk Viking Santa shows up.
ILONA ANDREWS Some men got excited by white lace and a translucent negligee. My love muffin got excited by a woman...
ILONA ANDREWS karves,
ILONA ANDREWS Basically, it comes down to my intuition, ... It wasn't time for me to do this now. There were certa...
MARIO VAZQUEZ We were too passive. I take credit for that. We were just trying to get very good looks.
BRIAN MOORE And if you die first, then it won't be long before I follow.
VIRGINIA ANDREWS ran as hard as I could.
JOHN IRVINE Charlie tried to hold us together, came up with some big plays, as he has throughout his tenure here...
JOHN ISWALT The crowd was especially into the game. That really got the players into the game. The Pit was a uni...
JOHN ERRECART They're improved over last year's team. Their quarterback is real good. This will be another tough g...
JOHN ERWIN It's the best training we've had in awhile.
JOHN DOUCET I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans...
ANITA LOOS He's slowly coming back to form. It's a great thing to see.
JEROME JENKINS Hm … yes, all is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of ...
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV It's pure hackwork. ... Here it is: I produce fast, I can do it on a deadline, and I usually have so...
JANE SMILEY accepted his idea that the audience for a quality novel might not be large enough to support the aut...
JANE SMILEY Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
JANE RULE The time we need in order to heal our wounds and finally manifest our deepest dreams is only as long...
FRANCO SANTORO We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not ...
PATRICIA HAMPL But now let us consider the holes in our own bodies and into what these congenital wounds open. Unde...
NATHANAEL WEST Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH How does it happen? At what point is she born, the baffled, wounded adult of tomorrow? Is eleven wha...
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