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Stephenie Meyer quote: "There was a darkness in Jacob now. Like my sun had imploded."
There was a darkness in Jacob now. Like my sun had imploded. Stephenie Meyer
To support his austerely upholstered nest and its rabble staff he put forth minimum effort for maximum return simply because it was easier to be rich than to be poor - Harshaw merely wished to live exactly as he liked, doing whatever he thought was best for him. Robert A. Heinlein
Paulo Coelho quote: "We see the world in terms of what we would like to see happen,..."
We see the world in terms of what we would like to see happen, not what actually does. Paulo Coelho
Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred. Virginia Woolf
What Trixie wanted, most of all, what she couldn't have - to go back to being the kind of girl who worried about things like science tests and whether any college would admit her, instead of being the kind of girl everyone worried about. Jodi Picoult
There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid in her stomach because her heart no longer knew what to do with them. Jodi Picoult
The Professor looked like a Protestant saint when the cannibal offered him the choice of taking six wives or being boiled alive. He wanted to mortify some flesh, but he didn't know which. Joyce Cary
To her surprise, Madeleine found herself contemplating this proposal. Why not tell her parents everything, curl up in the backseat of the car, and let them take her home? She could move into her old bedroom, with the sleigh bed and the Madeline wallpaper. She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. Jeffrey Eugenides
His nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out. Marcel Proust
We should leave people alone about their weight. Being skinny for a while (provided you actually eat food and don't take pills or smoke to get there) is a perfectly fine pastime. Everyone should try it once, like a super-short haircut or dating a white guy. Tina Fey
-why had she found the story so absorbing? Of course it was quite possible she hadn't. Maybe she merely preferred a novel--any novel--to reading a newspaper or chatting with the girls she worked with all day. And maybe she always read like that--with an air of having surrendered totally to a spell. James Hilton
But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there—good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you’re uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close... Sarah Vowell
When she comes. She pulls you close. She breathes in short bursts. Her eyes close. Her head tilts back. Her mouth opens slightly. Her thighs turn to steel, and then melt. She is perfect. And you feel like you are everything. Henry Rollins
Doug Coupland quote: "Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public..."
Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now. Doug Coupland
Kim Mathers quote: "I can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what..."
I can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like. Kim Mathers

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