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Thump Milton loomed over Ree, a fabled man, his face a monument of Ozark stone, with juts and angles and cold shaded parts the sun never touched.


Daniel Woodrell

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SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
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SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
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NANETTE L. AVERY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Cold be hand and heart and bone,
and cold be sleep under stone:
never more to wake on ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own sig...
BIBLE The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A thump thump thump noise that was so unfamiliar, and yet I couldn't quite place it. But I knew it. ...
SARAH DESSEN Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?"
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ERICH SEGAL Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha...
JEFFREY R. ANDERSON Oh, I should probably set a few ground rules before we do this.”
“Oh?” I turn at the wais...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"

There was nothing but uncompromising w...
SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you.

His first words to me— not a lie at a...
SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
"It's not the end of the world if you do that every n...
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ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
SARAH J. MAAS He's gawking at me when I open the door.
"Damn girl," he says, looking me over, "what the hell...
J.A. REDMERSKI What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on hi...
JOSEPH ADDISON I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religiou...
SAMUEL BUTLER I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in...
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HENRY JAMES Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
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SARAH J. MAAS you left
and i wanted you still
yet i deserved someone
who was willing to stay
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LAUREN KATE Daniel took Luce’s hands in his. He closed his eyes, inhaled, and let his massive white wings unfu...
LAUREN KATE Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime...
STEPHEN FRY Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To...
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SARAH J. MAAS When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.
SARAH J. MAAS Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.
SARAH J. MAAS Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E...
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SARAH J. MAAS My plant is probably dead."
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I smile. ...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver.
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JAIME ALLISON PARKER He smiled, and his face was like the sun.
MADELINE MILLER Even the very creation broke silence at His behest and, marvelous to relate, confessed with one voic...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow.
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JACK KENNY Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me...
Otherwis...
MARYUM AHSAM Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules!
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

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DANIEL ESPINOSA I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.
DANIEL ESPINOSA When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
DANIEL ESPINOSA It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their age...
DANIEL ESPINOSA The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret...
DANIEL ELLSBERG I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
DANIEL ELLSBERG It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn'...
DANIEL ELLSBERG If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I hav...
DANIEL ELLSBERG President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several tim...
DANIEL ELLSBERG Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanis...
DANIEL ELLSBERG Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vie...
DANIEL ELLSBERG If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
DANIEL ELLSBERG Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be beli...
DANIEL ELLSBERG My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, an...
DANIEL ELLSBERG We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
DANIEL ELLSBERG There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
DANIEL ELLSBERG There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millio...
DANIEL ELLSBERG Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers tha...
DANIEL ELLSBERG In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga...
DANIEL EK This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Brun...
DANIEL EK The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want...
DANIEL EK Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that...
DANIEL EK I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much c...
DANIEL EK In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact tha...
DANIEL EK With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
DANIEL EK People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
DANIEL EK There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal...
DANIEL EK I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
DANIEL EK It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening t...
DANIEL EK At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your ...
DANIEL EK I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a w...
DANIEL EK With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I lea...
DANIEL EK I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
DANIEL EK Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
DANIEL EK At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.
DANIEL EK He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.
DANIEL DREW We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
DANIEL DREW Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolutio...
DANIEL DENNETT There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on su...
DANIEL DENNETT Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds a...
DANIEL DENNETT We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good ...
DANIEL DENNETT If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into t...
DANIEL DENNETT