When you're a kid, getting lost isn't just an event or a situation, it's like a career move. You get this thrill of anxiety and fear and a feeling that you've done something that can never be undone.

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I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean...
LISA GLATT

Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea...
DEYTH BANGER

You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI

The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS

I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS

He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
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...
SARAH J. MAAS

I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Be yourself and people will like you.
JEFF KINNEY The best person I know is Myself.
JEFF KINNEY

When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA When you talk to everyone, you just get the feeling we're going to be able to get something done at ...
ARMON BASSETT 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

I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER

That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
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 GOD IS ALWAYS WITH US HE'S NEVER TOOK A SICK DAY !
MITCHELL GREEN Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't l...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS To know the hurt of what losing a loved one brings. Well put it this way time does not heal, you lea...
GARY F EVANS...

She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN People live for eating,but I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL

When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in.
RICHIE NORTON

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS

Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER

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...
SARAH J. MAAS

I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ...
SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ...
PATRICK W. CARR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
SARAH J. MAAS I don't know how long is too long, but I do know that your struggles don't make you weak or abnormal...
MARCUS HARRISON GREEN If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
MARAT SAFIN To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ...
GARY F EVANS...

Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
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 I just felt on a whim that this would be a situation when he would get in there and give us an oppor...
RANDY CARLYLE Man is now able to fly through the air like a bird, he is able to swim under the sea like a fish, he...
TOMMY DOUGLAS

Tea?” Daniel asked, signaling to the innkeeper.
“Please. Or anything that is hot.” She pu...
JULIA QUINN

Finally, he reached his street. It was quiet, blessedly so, and the only sound was his own groan as ...
JULIA QUINN

His brows rose. “And how is it that you have come to be such an expert on scrapes and bruises?”<...
JULIA QUINN

Then, with a cheeky quirk of his brows, he leaned forward and murmured, “Would it be improper of m...
JULIA QUINN

Daniel chuckled. Whoever that poor girl was, he hoped his family was paying her well.
And then,...
JULIA QUINN

Have you seen Frances?”

He tilted his head to the right. “I believe she’s off rooti...
JULIA QUINN

He said he loved me,” she whispered.

Daniel swallowed, and he had the strangest sensati...
JULIA QUINN I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ...
GARY F EVANS...

I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an...
ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�...
مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT If the door bell rings and you go to open the door and the phone rings at the same time and you end ...
APURVA GAGLANI Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a
MICHAEL H. DANSBURY A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study...
APURVA GAGLANI And then it happens. The panic. It's slow at first, creeping through the cracks in my thoughts until...
SARA BARNARD

A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a gro...
DREW BARRYMORE

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...
SARAH J. MAAS

Males are horrible creatures, aren’t they?
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...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

But I forgot to tell him,” I said quietly, opening the door, “that the villain is usually the pe...
SARAH J. MAAS

We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

they were all ordinary until they took the extraordinary steps with courage to leave the extraordina...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.
BRITTANY MURPHY

I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.
MARILYN MANSON A godmother is always there and genuine.The help she has given will never be forgotten but will glis...
GARY F EVANS... If tomorrow was yesterday then yesterday would be tomorrow, if we think about the past why not think...
GARY F EVANS... Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others.
APURVA GAGLANI

and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping?'
'You're bitching about ...
LETA BLAKE why do people rise and fall.. How and when they will get the attentions and why politicians fall whe...
SHARIF MOHAMED Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely...
DEBORAH KERR They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p...
DEBORAH KERR

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HARUKI MURAKAMI Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny th...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow, Korogi says. But that's one thing I'll never b...
HARUKI MURAKAMI sound is of no use to human evolution. in fact, it gets in the way.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Yeah. The more languages you know the better. And I've got a knack for them. I taught myself French ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Languages are like games. You learn the rules for one, and they all work the same way. Like women.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Because, in the final analysis, the language we speak constitutes who we are as people.
HARUKI MURAKAMI We're on the border of this world, speaking a common language. That's all.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Learning another language is like becoming another person.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
HARUKI MURAKAMI If you look at it the other way round, that's the only reason why this world is inside of me. Maybe ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Yo no soy tan fuerte. A mi me importa que me entiendan. Hay personas a quienes quiero comprender y q...
HARUKI MURAKAMI In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An inte...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pr...
HARUKI MURAKAMI When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's jus...
HARUKI MURAKAMI We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
HARUKI MURAKAMI For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long dis...
HARUKI MURAKAMI All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a p...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memori...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to ope...
HARUKI MURAKAMI And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTH...
HARUKI MURAKAMI No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they...
HARUKI MURAKAMI From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke fr...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means...
HARUKI MURAKAMI There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Hajime," she began, "the sad truth is that some things can't go backwards. Once they start going for...
HARUKI MURAKAMI We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpec...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.
HARUKI MURAKAMI No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body fallin...
HARUKI MURAKAMI She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But...
HARUKI MURAKAMI sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get o...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened t...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I always feel as if I'm struggling to become someone else. As if I'm trying to find a new place, gra...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't kee...
HARUKI MURAKAMI But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in scho...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a...
HARUKI MURAKAMI If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. I...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no m...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, livin...
HARUKI MURAKAMI No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i...
HARUKI MURAKAMI For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, someth...
HARUKI MURAKAMI For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.
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When you're a kid, getting lost isn't just an event or a situation, it's like a career move. You get this thrill of anxiety and fear and a feeling that you've done something that can never be undone.

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When you're a kid, getting lost isn't just an event or a situation, it's like a career move. You get this thrill of anxiety and fear and a feeling that you've done something that can never be undone.

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