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Joyce Maynard quote: "You like to think you can count on a person. To hang around"
You like to think you can count on a person. To hang around Joyce Maynard
James Lee Burke quote: "I'm over the hill for come-on lines. On a quiet day, I can..."
I'm over the hill for come-on lines. On a quiet day, I can hear my liver rotting. For exercise, I fall down. ~ Clete James Lee Burke
Thomas Hardy quote: "Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and..."
Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can. Thomas Hardy
I gaze lovingly at "Hilal" a love that is reflected through time or what we imagine to be time, as in a mirror. She was never mine and never will be; that is how it is. We are both creators and creatures, but we are also puppets in God's hands, and there is a line we cannot cross, a line that was drawn for reasons we cannot know. We can approach and even dabble our toes in the river but we are forbidden to plunge in and let ourselves be carried along by the current. Paulo Coelho
Before we left, Grandmother talked a lot about the arctic night we would fly through. 'Isn't it a mystical word, "arctic"? Pure and quite hard. And meridians. Isn't that pretty? We're going to fly along them, faster than the light can follow us... Time won't be able to catch us. Tove Jansson
He’ll accept anyone at Hogwarts, s’long as they’ve got the talent. Knows people can turn out okay even if their families weren’ . . .well . . . all tha’ respectable. J. K. Rowling
Kazuo Ishiguro quote: "Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is..."
Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers. Kazuo Ishiguro
Terry Prachett quote: "You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you."
You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you. Terry Prachett
In a dry wind like this, snow and ice can pass directly into the air as a gas without having first melted to water. This process is called sublimation; tonight the snow in the yard and the ice in the creek sublime. Annie Dillard
Paulo Coelho quote: "- He who knows the treasure he has: his days and hours of..."
- He who knows the treasure he has: his days and hours of life, which can change everything which goes on around him. Paulo Coelho
He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice. Voltaire
The French have such an attractive civilization, dedicated to calm pleasures and general tolerance, and their taste in every domain is so sharp, so sure, that the foreigner (especially someone from chaotic, confused America) is quickly seduced into believing that if he can only become a Parisian he will at last master the art of living. Edmund White
Humphrey Bogart quote: "The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can..."
The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell. Humphrey Bogart
People are never perfect, but love can be. Loving makes perfect. Loving makes itself. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay? Tom Robbins
Bob Dylan quote: "When you think that you lost everything you find out you can..."
When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more. Bob Dylan

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