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Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you."
You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life."
Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life. Jeffrey Eugenides
So she was on her own, Kate thought, and instilled all the friendly helpfulness she could into her next question. “Excuse me, but are you the bad company young Mr. Scott has got into? Dorothy Dunnett
E. M. Forster quote: "Yes, I think the apostle spoons could have gone as rent," said..."
Yes, I think the apostle spoons could have gone as rent," said Margaret.- Howard's End E. M. Forster
I was in his hands, he called me by the thunder at my ear. I was in his hands: I was being changed; all that I could do was cling to him. I did not realize, until I realized it, that I was also kissing him, that everything was breaking and changing and turning in me and moving toward him. James Baldwin
Oprah Winfrey quote: "Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have..."
Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different. Oprah Winfrey
Robert Frost quote: "How many things would you attempt. If you knew you could not fail"
How many things would you attempt. If you knew you could not fail Robert Frost
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "How could you love someone and not want them to be happy?"
How could you love someone and not want them to be happy? Laurell K. Hamilton
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal..."
I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel. Vladimir Nabokov
I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago - but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child. She could fade and wither - I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face. Vladimir Nabokov
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
Her little shoulders drove me mad; I hugged her and hugged her. And she loved it.'I love love,' she said, closing her eyes. I promised her beautiful love. I gloated over her. Our stories were told; we subsided into silence and sweet anticipatory thoughts. It was as simple as that. You could have all your Peaches and Bettys and Marylous and Ritas and Camilles and Inezes in this world; this was my girl and my kind of girlsoul, and I told her that. Jack Kerouac
Water, in Grace, is an all-or-nothing proposition, like happiness. When you have rain you have more than enough, just as when you're happy and in love and content with your life, you can't remember how you ever could have felt cheated by fate. Barbara Kingsolver
and then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of the flowing of robes, of the flowering of blossoms, of the purple waves of the sea, of all things that are lovely and mutable on the surface but still and passionate in their heart. Virginia Woolf
And, don't you see, the terror of the position was not in being knocked on the head - though I had a very lively sense of that danger, too - but in this, that I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or low. I had, even like the niggers, to invoke him - himself - his own exalted and incredible degradation. There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth. Confound the man! he had kicked the very... Joseph Conrad

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