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The dreamy days and sticky nights of summer were already calling, as if anything could happen.


C.J. Carlyon

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C.J. CARLYON Lips that have tasted the salt of tears always give the sweetest kiss.
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C.J. CARLYON Just remember that people who are known for their looks are rarely known for anything else.
C.J. CARLYON I still think about you at night
you come back to me with the stars.
C.J. CARLYON He didn't pick her; you don't choose who you fall in love with any more than you choose the shape of...
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C.J. CARLYON Summer Nights.
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN Like ghosts the children walked across the lawn on their bare feet. The moon was full. Above the dam...
ELIZABETH ENRIGHT The night wears on; the fire dwindles; the wind shifts and my heart aches with nostalgia - summer ca...
RICK YANCEY I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could...
JOHN KEATS We came out on Coldra Crescent, one of those warm air nights, stars spitting in the sky like firebug...
RON BERRY If only i could get that under control then i feel like i could stay here a long time, watching the ...
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ANTONIO CORONA If it rains for 40 days and 40 nights, yeah.
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JOYCE CAROL OATES The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense...
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HARUKI MURAKAMI Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights;
Four nights will quickly dream away the time...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and ni...
ROBERT CORMIER I knew the whole time, if anything bad were to happen, he'd take care of us.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES There were very long days and very short nights. It was mentally and physically challenging and emot...
BOB MCKEE Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL We're not calling anything as yet.
ABHISIT VEJJAJIVA We were flat, really flat. They didn't let us have a response. We just couldn't find our rhythm. I d...
MIKE D'ANTONI Those were the days in this country where H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw and Conan Doyle could have influ...
JULIAN BARNES These summer nights are short. Going to bed before midnight is unthinkable and talk, wine, moonlight...
PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR Anything could happen with Lou.
SAM PERLOZZO All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and nights.
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CHARLIE KING One word for Microsoft: delay. Stretch the remedy out, stretch the appeal out, stretch the Supreme C...
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JACQUELINE PATRICKS Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
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ROBIN HOBB ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN
while the dead slept.
DIANN MILLS The roof might fall in; anything could happen.
DASHIELL HAMMETT It kind of makes me wish that the worst thing that will ever happen to me would just hurry up and ha...
MEGAN MCCAFFERTY My days are as bitter as our nights. His heart never stepped back into my life.
HENANNIE ZARAGOZA I don’t know where I’m going on this path. I don’t know what I’m doing with my life. You had...
T. SCOTT MCLEOD If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.
J. M. W. TURNER If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.
DOMINIC MONAGHAN I'm excited. I think anything could happen.
CAROLINA RUIZ The summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows o...
VICTORIA KAHLER ...until summer becomes ein Zimmer in einem Traum -- a room in a dream.
WILLIAM H. GASS A series of test were conducted, taking anything between 18 hours to two days per test. This was the...
DR NK GANGULY Nights and days came and passed
And summer and winter
and the rain.
And it was good t...
MARGARET WISE BROWN If I could claw the words out of the back of my throat and give them, dripping of me, to you, we wou...
NICOLE LYONS We had a good scheme and the players got it done. We felt that as long as we could stay in the game ...
DAN SACK Sophie felt as if she were encased in a glass globe called summer.
NANCY THAYER If you attend summer VPK, you might already be 5 (years old).
MATTI FRIEDT Our days and nights Have sorrows woven with delights.
FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE anything else?
ANYTHING I always say things happen for a reason, ... If C.J. hadn't gotten pulled from that game in Georgia ...
CHRIS LEAK Anything that happened to the others could happen to us.
DICK RUTAN There is no doubt in my mind that could happen, and if I were president, I would work hard to try an...
BILL BRADLEY Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If yo...
RAMANA MAHARSHI Raisins are perceived as sweet and sticky and any food that contains sugar and is sticky is assumed ...
CHRISTINE WU Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.
DAVID RUSSELL He's still concerned the administration could sneak this through in any number of ways. It's a long ...
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ART KINSMAN A kestrel can and does hover in the dead calm of summer days, when there is not the faintest breath ...
RICHARD JEFFERIES And let's stop calling them "sex offenders," as if their crimes had anything to do with sex. (Perhap...
MIKE LEW We stitch together our days and edit out our nights.
JULIA LEIGH She remembered the feel of wind on summer nights - how it billows through the house and wafts the cu...
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TOVE JANSSON I have sleepless nights before press days.
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MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Cabel felt the familiar nostalgic excitement of the endless possibilities encapsulated in a summers'...
ERIN FARWELL Part of our game is driving to the basket and I didn't think they were calling anything on drives, a...
DON DAVIDSON We tried to do a weekly pick-up [game] this summer so that people who weren't playing on a summer le...
ALLIE FLYNN I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.
RENNY HARLIN Patients have already started calling in.
DR. KATHY ALBAIN If they were given free reign, they could take that allocation in a few days.
LARRY YETMAN If Europe had known as much of Islam, as Muslims knew of Christendom, in those days, those mad, adve...
MUHAMMAD MARMADUKE PICKTHALL We were better prepared to play the game and the kids came ready to play. The very first tip play ga...
BARRY PRUITT The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.
VICTORIA BILLINGS In Rochester and Dover, it's already gone up significantly considering the first couple of days we w...
BILL BOYNTON I felt like if I could I would get up and run as fast and far as I could. Just ... pretend like it d...
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MARK PAGE I never thought anything like this could happen to me.
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