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In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself. A. Whitney Brown
Katniss?" Peeta says. I meet his eyes, knowing my face must be some shade of green. He mouths the words. "How about that kiss? Suzanne Collins
John Updike, in that book you gave me, he said the dead make space. Do you know what I think? Updike doesn't know dick about what it's like to be a homicide cop in Baltimore. Laura Lippman
I could tell by his expression that once he got over his anger at me for keeping this secret from him, there was nothing left to talk about. He wasn't confused. He didn't need questions answered. He didn't ask why or how or with whom or whether I thought maybe it might just be a phase. He didn't ask who knew and who didn't know or whether I thought it might ruin my career. I was his sister and he didn't care whether I was straight or gay; it simply didn't matter to him. Portia de Rossi
the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't. Leo Tolstoy
I discover vision, not as a "thinking about seeing," to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
-"Then what," Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatars obvious enthusiasm, "is making you smile about a disaster?"-"Well, first, I didnt cause it! Nothing to do with me, hands clean. Always a bonus. Iain Banks
There was such a rush about me: wing, and tangled spray, and colors upon colors and shades of colors that were not colors at all but shifts of white and silver. If light like that were sound, it would sound like the sea on sand, and if my ears were eyes, they would see such a light. I crouched there, gasping in the swirl of it, and a flood struck me, shallow and swift, turning up and outward like flower petals where it touched my knees, then soaking me to the waist in its bubble and crash. I... Theodore Sturgeon
David Lodge quote: "Literature is mostly about having sex and not having children...."
Literature is mostly about having sex and not having children. Life is the other way around David Lodge
Terry Prachett quote: "Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it..."
Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home. Terry Prachett
Charles Bukowski quote: "I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the..."
I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what? Charles Bukowski
Janet Evanovich quote: "You can run, but you can't hide, Cupcake." Morelli said. "I'll..."
You can run, but you can't hide, Cupcake." Morelli said. "I'll find you."You are such a cop."Tell me about it. Janet Evanovich
The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught. Walt Whitman
... after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh. Lawrence Durrell
I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It's in my ex-wife's tote bag. Michael Chabon

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