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This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it? Charles Dickens
The doctrines of original sin, election, and effectual calling, final perseverance, and all those great truths which are called Calvinism? though Calvin was not the author of them, but simply an able writer and preacher upon the subject? are, I believe, the essential doctrines of the gospel that is in Jesus Christ. Now, I do not ask you whether you believe all this? it is possible you may not; but I believe you will before you enter heaven. Charles Spurgeon
I ask you: what have people? from the very cradle- prayed for dreamed about and agonized over They wanted someone anyone to tell them once and for all what happiness is? and then to attach them to this happiness with a chai? Yevgeny Zamyatin
Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked. Quentin Crisp
Charlaine Harris quote: " what she had was hers absolutely, not to be touched by other..."
.. what she had was hers absolutely, not to be touched by other hands without proper permission being asked and granted. Charlaine Harris
David Eddings quote: "Who owns a man, Durnik?” the blond young man asked sadly. “The..."
Who owns a man, Durnik?” the blond young man asked sadly. “The one who rules him, or the one who pays him? David Eddings
Jodi Picoult quote: "What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me..."
What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me forget ... that you forgot about me? Jodi Picoult
She felt attracted by their weakness as by vertigo. She felt attracted by it because she felt weak herself. Again she began to feel jealous and again her hands shook. When Tomas noticed it, he did what he usually did: he took her hands in his and tried to calm them by pressing hard. She tore them away from him."What's the matter?" he asked."Nothing."What do you want me to do for you?"I want you to be old. Ten years older. Twenty years older!"What she meant was: I want you to be weak. As weak... Milan Kundera
Nicholas Sparks quote: "Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to..."
Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you? Nicholas Sparks
I know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and to paint you a smoky eye she's merely trying to enroll you in a beauty contest she's already won. It's a kind of slummy, condescending gesture, like when rich people ask poor people where they summer. To me, this smacks of a blatant, insensitive "let them eat cake" type of chauvinism. Chuck Palahniuk
Daphne du Maurier quote: "I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done...."
I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault. Daphne du Maurier
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same. Viktor E. Frankl
I would like to ask one favor though, if that's not too much," he said. I wonder what he saw on my face, because something flickered across his own face in response. But, before I could identify it, he'd composed his features into the same serene mask."Anything," I vowed, my voice faintly stronger. As I watched, his frozen eyes melted. The gold became liquid again, molten, burning down into mine with an intensity that was overwhelming."Don't do anything reckless or stupid," he ordered, no... Stephenie Meyer
Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys. C. S. Lewis
The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness. Emile M. Cioran

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