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Anne Tyler quote: "There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if..."
There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house. Anne Tyler
There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span. Ernest Hemingway
Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash. Chuck Palahniuk
Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up toward the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that." What happens to them?" insisted Milo. Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else," said Alec thoughtfully, "and i've heard that they walk among the stars. Norton Juster
Marie Antoinette quote: "When everyone else is losing their heads, it is important to..."
When everyone else is losing their heads, it is important to keep yours. Marie Antoinette
People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak. Fannie Flagg
Jodi Picoult quote: "How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run..."
How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else... Jodi Picoult
Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to their most shameful longings and knowledge? Jeffrey Eugenides
All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else. Edward Gorey
What does reason know? It knows only what it has managed to learn (and it may never learn anything else; that isn't very reassuring, but why not admit it?), while human nature acts as a complete entity, with all that is in it, consciously or unconsciously; and though it may be wrong, it's nevertheless alive. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I have been wrongly accused; and you, ma'am, and everybody else, will now think me wicked."We shall think you what you prove yourself to be, my child. Continue to act as a good girl, and you will satisfy us. Charlotte Bronte
For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime? Richard Ford
Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems. Ralph Nader
When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else. Gerald Brenan
Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else. Henry Rollins

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