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We both sat there mute, as if we were in a no-talking competition and serious about winning.


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BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ If there is no intervention, then we could be talking about the same disaster we had in 2000.
ABDULLAHI ALI HAJI She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن...
EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts."
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E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat...
E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHEART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.
E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
Gat, h...
E.LOCKHART Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
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JEREMY WARINER We are talking about material of the most serious and extreme kind: serious sexual violence, bestial...
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JEANNE HURLBERT Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi.
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SAEB EREKAT We can't worry about any of that. There are no guarantees. We have to keep winning.
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Who cares where are you?
Who cares what are you posting??<...
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E. LOCKHART We are Sinclairs. Beautiful. Privileged. Damaged. Liar. We live, least in the summertime, on a priva...
E. LOCKHART He and I together was a terrible idea. We were both unstable, we were both shattered, and there was ...
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GABRIELLE ZEVIN The four of us sat around the pentagram holding hands. I wondered if we were about to sing "Kumbaya.
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JUAN PIERRE We began the evacuation of the Capitol about four minutes after 12 p.m. It took about five or six mi...
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HANAN ASHRAWI There were serious problems; we know that.
ELIN SULEYMANOV No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves
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IKE NWAELELE We were going to run in this race no matter what, so we never summed up the competition.
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PAUL COHEN I’m not talking about cooking as performance, or entertaining as a complicated choreography of com...
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BOBBY SEALE If every deputy took this physical fitness test as serious as Bob, no one would be failing. Bob is t...
DAVE HARRIS As the season went on, the way we were playing ball, we got confidence when we went out there on the...
CHARLIE SMYTHERS We are treating it as both murder and suicide because there were children involved.
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ALLISON SCHLINKERT Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were...
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MARíA BRANDáN ARáOZ We were starting to talk about where are we going to live in Detroit, how we need to pack this stuff...
CURTIS GRANDERSON There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and mone...
TERRY PRATCHETT I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was...
JON HUNTSMAN, JR. We're working on these one case at a time, doing old-fashioned gumshoe detective work. Every report ...
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PAM ADAMS It's just understood what we were talking about.
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SANDRA LEE What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out tha...
AILEEN LEE There's a McDonald's in the Louvre.
LEE RADZIWILL I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d...
AMY LEE Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our chil...
LEE HANEY I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.
AMY LEE I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, wh...
TANITH LEE I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.
TANITH LEE I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don&#...
TANITH LEE I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Ma...
TANITH LEE At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone sa...
TANITH LEE No one is ever ordinary.
TANITH LEE I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most e...
TANITH LEE I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
TANITH LEE When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
TANITH LEE As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to rev...
TANITH LEE Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
TANITH LEE I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
TANITH LEE I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as ...
TANITH LEE If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say i...
TANITH LEE The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
TANITH LEE People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural b...
TANITH LEE