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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.

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Lily and James only made you Secret-Keeper because I suggested it,” Black hissed, so venomously that Pettigrew took a step backward. “I thought it was the perfect plan . . . a bluff. . . . Voldemort would be sure to come after me, would never dream they’d use a weak, talentless thing like you. . . . It must have been the finest moment of your miserable life, telling Voldemort you could hand him the Potters. J. K. Rowling
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If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you. Tracy Kidder
Is our Heaven your God, and is your God our Heaven?' she inquired. 'They are one and the same,' he replied... 'There is only one true God. He has many names.' 'Then anywhere upon the round earth, by whatever seas, those who believe in any God believe in the One?' she asked. 'And so are brothers,' he said, agreeing. 'And if I do not believe in any?' she inquired willfully. 'God is patient,' he said. 'God waits. Is there not eternity?'" page 206 Pavilion of Women Pearl S. Buck
Iain Banks quote: "Yes of course I know it's all a dream. Isn't everything?"
Yes of course I know it's all a dream. Isn't everything? Iain Banks
Kristen Stewart quote: "I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown..."
I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it. Kristen Stewart
I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information. Studs Terkel
Crisis or transition of any kind reminds us of what matters most. In the routine of life, we often take our families-our parents and children and siblings-for granted. But in times of danger and need and change, there is no question that what we care about most is our families! It will be even more so when we leave this life and enter into the spirit world. Surely the first people we will seek to find there will be father, mother, spouse, children, and siblings. M. Russell Ballard
Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality.? Mother Jones November/December 1997. Huston Smith
Now that he was navigating, his celestial mood was shattered. Wild, animal thirst for life, mixed with homesick longing for the free airs and the sights and smells of earth-for grass and meat and beer and tea and the human voice-awoke in him. C. S. Lewis
On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did. Bill Hicks
Steve Waugh quote: "I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been..."
I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years. Steve Waugh
It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from. C. S. Lewis
For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us. Carson McCullers
And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie. Berenice Marlohe
Booth Tarkington quote: "An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband."
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband. Booth Tarkington