Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.
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Related It was not very pretty today. At this level, any time you hit it straight into the air, it's a guara... MICHAEL STEVENS Before you dive in head first, make sure the water is not shallow. KATHERINE DIVOLIS Well, I'm more lopsided than a one legged badger," mewed Graypaw, breaking off from his carful stalk... ERIN HUNTER No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with whi... ROBERT AICKMAN I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of cours... JON KRAKAUER As long as that song plays, I get to put my hands on you, and I can’t guarantee I’m going to be ... MEREDITH WILD Just give me one night, Vanessa. One night, and I won’t let you regret it. MEREDITH WILD I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his... JENNY DOWNHAM I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them. ADRIENNE RICH The lamb baa-ed vigorously as Mary dragged it into the manicure room, and Zel winced. She really sho... SARAH BETH DURST We've learned a bunch of things; when you send a message to people, keep those messages short. I... SAM YAGAN Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a... ANG LEE Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the grou... CINDA WILLIAMS CHIMA I'm sure people can misuse it just like any other product -- you can misuse a knife -- but there are... MARK TAITZ Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you... JENNY HAN This was a respect in which he paid due homage to the wise old spirit of the late Emiel Kroger, that... TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you we... TED HUGHES Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, t... BILL MAHER Sometimes things get so overwhelming so much that you feel like you are falling in a deep dark abyss... DELETE ACCOUNT You’re wondering whether this is a good idea. Because you’re smart and you see right through me,... MEREDITH WILD That's good; don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a lia... ALLY CARTER You have to really drive your ball straight here. Nobody who hits it off the fairway is going to pla... ANDREW MAGEE Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been i... DICK CAVETT Sometimes when things are falling apart they may actually be falling into place. L.J. VANIER This feels great, I wouldn't go out any other way. Winning like we did, it meant a lot to the other ... ANTHONY MAESTRANZI Some people are like rocks, they ground you but sometimes put you in a hard place. Others are like t... NI D BREEN It isn't about the words you say. It's about the energetic message you send. PETE CARROLL An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music. MARK TWAIN Sometimes silent is more vocal than your words but merely to those who snoop to you thru heart. ZUBAIR AHMED (Z.A) If you drink it straight down, you can feel it going into each individual intestine. RICHARD BURTON And ShadowClan holds power over there, in the darkest part of the forest. The elders say that the co... ERIN HUNTER I am so lonely without you, Aedan," Jane said simply. "You truly want me?" "Mo... KAREN MARIE MONING Before you start talking or writing, be clear about the message you want to deliver to your audience... SOTONYE ANGA I don't see how you can lead this country to succeed in Iraq if you say wrong war, wrong time, wrong... GEORGE W. BUSH Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you kno... BILL MAHER There are some nuances to hitting in the eight hole. It's nothing that thousands of players haven't ... BRAD AUSMUS Coming into the game, you try to take it like every game, but when you get out there (on the ice), t... COLTON FRETTER It's definitely going to get tougher. [The players] know it. But sometimes it's like when you know i... CLAUDE TYLER I really like the topic about time is an Illusion and also this quote "#Time Physical things are mer... DEYTH BANGER From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words ... PATRICIA J. WILLIAMS Well it doesn't matter how I feel. Sometimes it's a matter of luck. Sometimes you have so many chanc... JAROMIR JAGR I've been a thug since 1966, and this feels good. When people come up and you look into their faces ... JAMES COX He's definitely into every moment in practice. It gets kind of funny. We'll be lined up for sprints ... BRAD BADGER It feels good, soothing or whatever other word you want to use, when you're showing you can hit the ... MIKE LOWELL Sometimes, God doesn’t send you into a battle to win it; he sends you to end it. SHANNON L. ALDER It happens every year at this time. It feels totally out of control, like you can't do anything abou... JEANNIE CHAVEZ I will say it one last time: Demonation! The feeling of it! There are no words -how can there... CLIVE BARKER Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you. F. JOHNSON It's like throwing a baseball straight up into the air. Unless you're throwing it really, really fas... DEEPTO CHAKRABARTY This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is. DENNIS RODMAN You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space ... SARAH KAY It doesn't feel like we're Goliath, it feels like we're David in this matter. JACK ROBERTS I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of ... CHARLES YU Sometimes you make wrong conclusions, other times the words sounds in strange way. DEYTH BANGER When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whi... CARLA H. KRUEGER Any time you can go into those big?name colleges, and pull out a win or come close to winning, it bu... CLIFTON LEE Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your... PHILIP JOHNSON Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons ... PATRICIA BRIGGS All words are possible, then, all names. They rain down, all these words, they disintegrate into a p... J.M.G. LE CLéZIO Sometimes it just feels like the only thing you do is play hockey and eat. HENRIK LUNDQVIST In college, sometimes, a record like this gets you into a bowl game. But it's not that way at all (i... ERASMUS JAMES This is the time that counts -- you can really set yourself up. This is when you see teams start to ... DARREN MCCARTY Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat. ERIN HUNTER So that's a fox?' Firepaw whispered. 'What an ugly muzzle!' 'You can say that again!' agreed Gr... ERIN HUNTER Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever go... MORRIE SCHWARTZ Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever go... MITCH ALBOM ...This is a kiss. It is what happens when lips are puckered and pressed against something, sometime... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as yo... J.R. WARD You can imagine scenarios at this point where the Goldilocks economy turns into a nightmare. DAVID M. JONES It's not who you are, but what you're made of. It's not where you come from, but where you're going ... CAREW PAPRITZ I guess, over time, I had convinced myself that I could imagine what it would be like to lose a son ... JOHN F. KELLY When you see it straight on, it collapses into a straight line. And from the side, it will look volu... KATHLEEN MCCARTHY But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're ... TIM O'BRIEN This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk throug... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS This melancholy London- I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work - when you can really watch people find eac... RAINBOW ROWELL Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever go... MITCH ALBOM When they don't meet with you, when your client doesn't know what they'll say, you're going into thi... DAN PETROCELLI I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine wh... EDWARD NORTON And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But t... NEIL GAIMAN There's only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant w... BILL MURRAY People, like houses, hold their secrets. Sometimes the secrets inhabit them, and sometimes people in... CECELIA AHERN When you look into my eyes and see either me or you, you haven't grasped it. When you look into my e... MAURICE SPEES Imagine your body becoming that of a stranger. Imagine the sensation of it being not yours, as you d... NEIL BARTLETT Games like this one can get you into some bad habits. Because, sometimes, you play down to the level... TONY LEE We're going to send them a message like they've never heard before. LEON ABOOD When the heart accepts death first, words you can trust are feelings you can take. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE When I think of what I've been through the last 30 months. To think you can play a game like golf ? ... JOHN ENGLER There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can ch... ORSON SCOTT CARD No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son. ABRAHAM VERGHESE I can function without you. But I don’t like being away from you. It feels like you take my home w... CHRISTINA LAUREN Fire can destroy, but it can also create-provide warmth, protection. KATIE MCGARRY Being born into the world is the greatest crapshoot there is. KATIE MCGARRY Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteris... CALISTA FLOCKHART The alphabets mystery;When alphabets are combined into words & the words are further combined into s... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) [Cell phones[ are as real a real-time medium as any, and they are interactive. So it's like the Inte... MANISH JHA You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart. JOHN FORD When waiting for a text from the person you love it feels as though a second is an hour but when you... GERMANGIRL24 Falling in love is like falling from a high cliff into a warm silky sea, the falling is like flying ... CHLOE THURLOW When you walk up to the front of our store, it's like walking into Wonderland. This will create a un... JENNIFER TOWNSEND
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The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end. DAVID LEVITHAN I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday. DAVID LEVITHAN You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint - ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you,... DAVID LEVITHAN There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don... DAVID LEVITHAN I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blu... DAVID LEVITHAN The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearran... DAVID LEVITHAN I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend. DAVID LEVITHAN So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me." She triangled... DAVID LEVITHAN What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people... DAVID LEVITHAN exacerbate , v . I believe your exact words were: "You're getting too emotion... DAVID LEVITHAN If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accompl... DAVID LEVITHAN yearning, n. and adj. At the core of this desire is the belief that ... DAVID LEVITHAN Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it? DAVID LEVITHAN And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that ... DAVID LEVITHAN ubiquitous , adj . When it’s going well, the fact of it is everywhere. It�... DAVID LEVITHAN flux , n . The natural state. Our moods change. Our lives change. Our feeling... DAVID LEVITHAN breathtaking , adj . Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour be... DAVID LEVITHAN I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. ... DAVID LEVITHAN libidinous , adj . I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor.... DAVID LEVITHAN love , n. I'm not even going to try. DAVID LEVITHAN lover , n . Oh, how I hated this word. So pretentious, like it was always bei... DAVID LEVITHAN Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, ... DAVID LEVITHAN If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which ... DAVID LEVITHAN There was something about our silence that made me comfortable. He wasn't talking to me, but I didn'... DAVID LEVITHAN You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all... DAVID LEVITHAN There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about... DAVID LEVITHAN Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it’s a game, I know I’m... DAVID LEVITHAN Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs. DAVID LEVITHAN How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-s... DAVID LEVITHAN Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold ... DAVID LEVITHAN It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just varia... DAVID LEVITHAN I've never understood why looking hot had to be equated with sex and conquest. Whatever happened to ... DAVID LEVITHAN Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person ha... DAVID LEVITHAN Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you e... DAVID LEVITHAN Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical ... DAVID LEVITHAN My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots. DAVID LEVITHAN The words were clumsy in my mouth, like typing with hammers. DAVID LEVITHAN So what do you have to confess now?" I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is th... DAVID LEVITHAN My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get aw... DAVID LEVITHAN