Sometimes the clouds weren’t weightless. Sometimes their bellies got dark and full. It was life. It happened. It didn’t mean it wasn’t scary, or that I wasn’t still afraid, but now I knew that as long as I was standing under it with Braden beside me when those clouds broke, I’d be alright.
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Related This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS People see what they want to see SUSAN BETH PFEFFER Our relationship wasn’t easy. It wasn’t mellow. It wasn’t comfortable and sedate. He was too b... KRISTEN ASHLEY It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL I knew that, in my whole life, if I married Aspen or someone else, no one would ever make me feel th... KIERA CASS I’ll always be broken,” I went on. “Because when I came here, no one fixed me. It’s not that... TABITHA FREEMAN Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out. DAVE MATTHEWS BAND Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as i... STEPHEN KING Do. Then talk. In that order. SOTERO M LOPEZ II I wasn’t ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn’t that I wasn’t right for Macon, but... SARAH DESSEN Didn’t you see what it was standing on?” “The floor?” Harry suggested. “I wasn’t looking... J.K. ROWLING When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes th... MOTHER TERESA Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. STEPHEN KING ... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t... DEYTH BANGER And he said that wasn’t brave of him, doing that, just standing there and being stung,’ said Cor... NEIL GAIMAN And I find myself saying, “It wasn’t really about her.” And finding it’s true. Wh... DAVID LEVITHAN Getting on with her life is important. But right now it may be more important to put the feelings ou... JENNIFER BROWN Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask... JAY NORTHCOTE My life wasn’t how I planned it would be. It wasn’t even close. It was a thousand times better. NICOLE WILLIAMS What is worse, I leave it. What can't be understand, I leave it. What is bad, I leave it. What I say... DEYTH BANGER I’d say it was a pleasure rowing with you, only it wasn’t. JENNIFER MCKEITHEN There is a sense of danger in leaving what you know, even if what you know isn’t much. These mill ... JOHN WILLIAM TUOHY I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As she’d left, I’d glanced at her gun. This time, when she’d pointed it at me, she’d fl... BRANDON SANDERSON It wasn’t just me, and it wasn’t just him, it was what we were together that was the exception. JAMIE MCGUIRE Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-list... THOMAS HARRIS I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
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-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN I love my destruction.
Cause I still love the cause of my destruction
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN She broke her own heart by holding him into it....
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN She craved for the moon, not knowing there were other stars in the sky too...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN You know your value,
Only when someone else crumbles it...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN To be street smart it takes respect of a persons ability to control their emotional state and to kno... GARY F EVANS... Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an... CAMILLE SWEENEY His name was engraved deep in the core of her heart..
- Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN I will lock my feelings up and throw the key in the ocean till someone comes, ready to hunt the dept... ANSHIKA JAIN It's funny.. I still love the person who made me lose my ability to love...
-Anshika. ANSHIKA JAIN Its like I'm a broken mirror.. Don't try to pick my shattered pieces or you will hurt yourself ....
... ANSHIKA JAIN The story was so broken that no one could ever find the missing pieces....
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN Their story was just a chapter to him...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN You can't be a pussy all your life Todd. Someday you're just gonna have to say fuck it. DONALD RAY POLLOCK Fortunately, my care factor was now dangerously close to fuck-it levels. KYLIE SCOTT I stopped looking around when I heard a soft “mew” and I looked toward Tate to see he was crouch... KRISTEN ASHLEY I don't know how it happened. Through the din of the crowd, I heard this tiny scream. As small and d... TESS OLIVER God, if he wasn’t so handsome, strong, sometimes sweet, didn’t have a Harley, that beard, a... KRISTEN ASHLEY You had this all planned, didn’t you?' I accused. 'Thought you could come in here and seduce me li... KIM HARRISON Every now and then, I’d meet a guy and think that we were getting along great, and suddenly I’d ... NICHOLAS SPARKS Just because I’ve been gone from this country for most of my life doesn’t mean I understand it a... FIONA ZEDDE [His pain] wasn’t a punishment. It wasn’t a gift. It just was. His pain was his life. It wasn’... HEIDI CULLINAN Just do it... that's all... no matter what, when and where... but just do it. DEYTH BANGER It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back agai... NEIL GAIMAN I realized if I didn’t just go, I’d never go. Going was the key. It didn’t matter where I was ... JAYDEN HUNTER If a company is distributing images and video then obviously they need bandwidth solutions. But if t... JACK LONDON (IT SPECIALIST) My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn’t want ... W. BRUCE CAMERON If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to ... LARRY MCMURTRY Better to feel nothing, to be numb, than to lose control. It's the only way I know to deal with it. JULIE KAGAWA Pump gas and hydraulic cams are for minivans......... WAYNE SMOTHERS If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER I was so over crying. KIERA CASS Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me And tune his merry note, Unto the ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It wasn’t that everything was going my way, but I began to believe that the way it was going was p... THE HIPPIE When it first happened, it was a big deal. When it happened again it was big, too, but I felt I play... CHRISTI NARDOZZI It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN She used to think that if she stole enough, the want would fade, the hunger would go away, but maybe... V.E. SCHWAB I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn’t so sure ... MARILYN MANSON His eyesight wasn’t as keen as it had been, but he knew a changing mind when he saw it. BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere... J.D. SALINGER Then August knew. Thomas didn’t dwell on things. Thomas was strong, and he didn’t know what it w... KRIS NOEL I’m getting old and my memory is not as trustworthy as it once was, but I do not remember meeting ... BOBBY W. MILLER Roo: What’s your definition of popularity? Hutch: I used to think people were popular b... E. LOCKHART It was a rather cute reaction, but as I wasn’t a part of any of that, I didn't give a damn. WATARU WATARI I wasn’t alive until it was over and that’s when I realized sometimes love isn’t forever. It�... DOMINIC RICCITELLO It was tough, but I was really young when it happened, ... It's part of life. It's something that ma... WALI LUNDY But it wasn’t mine anymore. It was his. I was his. Something in that flirted with the submissive I... ALASKA ANGELINI I hated reunions. It made myself felt so little afterwards. When I was there, I couldn’t help not ... MARCELLA PURNAMA It’s a general rule – a law of space, as it was a law of the sea in the old days, that ships had... CHRISTINA ENGELA When had I gotten so afraid of love and hope that I strangled it to death with my insecurity? Maybe ... ALESSANDRA TORRE It just happened so fast. My hand got jammed in an awkward spot. I knew as soon as it happened that ... RENALDO WYNN I want to tell few things, I like the truth in all faces. why?? It's the truth one road and tha... DEYTH BANGER This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably al... SARAH DESSEN But no matter where I went, what I was running from would still be with me—Kat. She wasn’t just ... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT I have spend a lot of time on everything and what's impresses me about people I have written that in... DEYTH BANGER We all have a limit. What we’re willing to put up with before we break. When I married your father... COLLEEN HOOVER Ten feet from the car, a man stepped directly into our path. We came to a screeching halt, and I jer... RICHELLE MEAD Sometimes, when he looked at me…I felt him. I didn’t know how much of his soul was intact, but h... CHRISTINA L. BARR Maybe I’d lost something. Maybe I’d lost a lot—more, even, than I could suffer—but I still h... J.D. JORDAN If you can dream it, you can do it. ENZO FERRARI Do the thing and you will have the power. RALPH WALDO EMERSON You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson... DEYTH BANGER Oh, you still don’t understand,’ he said impatiently. ‘I’ve fallen in love with her, and I�... AGATHA CHRISTIE
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SAMANTHA MORTON There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed. SAMANTHA MATHIS Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage. SAMANTHA MATHIS You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen. SAMANTHA MATHIS When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl. SAMANTHA MATHIS I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I ... SAMANTHA ISLER I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I c... SAMANTHA ISLER I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen. SAMANTHA ISLER I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for ... SAMANTHA HARVEY When we fall in love, we feel that this person is ours and we are theirs by our mutual volition, and... SAMANTHA HARVEY As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more ... SAMANTHA HARVEY Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once ru... SAMANTHA HARVEY Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and ... SAMANTHA HARVEY With twenty six letters, you can create anything you like - any person, any world, any place, any em... SAMANTHA HARVEY It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subj... SAMANTHA HARVEY The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fas... SAMANTHA HARVEY The Japanese have different words for love. To them, it's plain weird that we love spaghetti and... SAMANTHA HARVEY With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks. SAMANTHA HARVEY I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's lif... SAMANTHA HARVEY Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate i... SAMANTHA HARVEY Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own int... SAMANTHA HARVEY The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as... SAMANTHA HARVEY I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complet... SAMANTHA HARVEY When there's change, and people fear things, they become more dogmatic in their views. They lash... SAMANTHA HARVEY Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until t... SAMANTHA HARVEY We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands i... SAMANTHA HARVEY We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind... SAMANTHA HARVEY There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just m... SAMANTHA HARVEY One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man s... SAMANTHA HARVEY I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we... SAMANTHA HARVEY What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching... SAMANTHA HARVEY My sister is my sister regardless - has always been and always will be and has no choice about it. T... SAMANTHA HARVEY Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would ha... SAMANTHA HARVEY I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do. SAMANTHA FOX I'm an outgoing girl, and I can't help the way I look. SAMANTHA FOX I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts ... SAMANTHA FOX When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person. SAMANTHA FOX At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up. SAMANTHA FOX When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figur... SAMANTHA FOX I still keep my accent. SAMANTHA FOX It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring. SAMANTHA FOX I am very domesticated. I find I really enjoy it. SAMANTHA FOX