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I’m stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me.” I’m not hitting on you,” he protested. No?” Believe me, you’d know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn’t be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms. Nicholas Sparks
If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on a piece of paper, you had better give up hope at once. If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions; if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence. Arnold Bennett
Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions, decisions make us. The proof can be found in the fact that, though life leads us to carry out the most diverse actions one after the other, we do not prelude each one with a period of reflection, evaluation and calculation, and only then declare ourselves able to decide if we will go out to lunch or buy a newspaper or look for the unknown woman. Jose Saramago
Willa Cather quote: "A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the..."
A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves. Willa Cather
Ann Patchett quote: "it was a miraculous thing to be able to watch the person you..."
...it was a miraculous thing to be able to watch the person you love undetected, Ann Patchett
I've always been able to say what I meant! It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone, so why can't I saw what it feels like? Stephen King
George R. R. Martin quote: "Any act can be a prayer, if done as well as we are able. Isn’t..."
Any act can be a prayer, if done as well as we are able. Isn’t that a lovely thought? George R. R. Martin
Everything that goes around comes around, they say, and although I've never been able to figure out who the mysteriously wise sages known as "they" might be, they're certainly right when it comes to time-travel. Stephen King
...she herself loved the character of Elizabeth Bennet. "I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, and how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least, I do not know. Carol Shields
Mark Twain quote: "Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the..."
Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the differance Mark Twain
Haruki Murakami quote: "If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax..."
If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it. Haruki Murakami
I often wonder if I could see her out of all the windows at once. But, turn as fast as I can, I can only see out of one at one time. And though I always see her, she may be able to creep faster than I can turn! I have watched her sometimes away off in the open country, creeping as fast as a cloud shadow in a high wind. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
But this man had set down with a hammer and chisel and carved out a stone water trough to last ten thousand years. Why was that? What was it that he had faith in? It wasn't that nothin' would change. Which is what you might think, I suppose. He had to know better'n that. I've thought about it a good deal. . . And I have to say that the only thing I can think is that there was some sort of promise in his heart. And I don't have no intentions of carvin' a stone water trough. But I would like to... Cormac McCarthy
Judy Blume quote: "Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything."
Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything. Judy Blume
I love you so much I’ll never be able to tell you; I’m frightened to tell you. I can always feel your heart. Dance tunes are always right: I love you body and soul: —and I suppose body means that I want to touch you and be in bed with you, and i suppose soul means that i can hear you and see you and love you in every single, single thing in the whole world asleep or awake Dylan Thomas

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