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The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed. Madeleine L'Engle
Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven. Edith Wharton
Why would you need a ship, Max? You're thinking of leaving already?"No, no," Max said. "This would be just for fun. Or emergencies." Carol's face had darkened and his eyes had gone small. His expression scattered Max's brain so much he started babbling: "It'll have a trampoline. And a big aquarium. An aquarium under the water, inside the ship, where we keep the fish and squids and stuff we like... Dave Eggers
Frances Hodgson Burnett quote: "I don't like it, papa," she said. "But then I dare say..."
I don't like it, papa," she said. "But then I dare say soldiers - even brave ones - don't really like going into battle. Frances Hodgson Burnett
Man, I didnt know anything like that was going to happen! Honest, Tex, he was on something. Holy cow! I really kid, I been doing this stuff for a year now and I never saw nobody pull a gun before! God Almighty! What if he hadnt missed!' -- Lem 'He didn't.' -- Tex 'What?' -- Lem 'I said he didn't miss. He shot me and it hurts like hell.' -- Tex S. E. Hinton
I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale." By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward. (moby dick chap 26 p112) Herman Melville
Michael Chabon quote: "I thought you seemed like someone who might enjoy backgammon,"..."
I thought you seemed like someone who might enjoy backgammon," said the kid, gravely mistaken. Michael Chabon
Peter Ustinov quote: "Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that..."
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. Peter Ustinov
Jane Austen quote: "Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night..."
Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning. Jane Austen
Now they were all moving to no effect-just moving, just switching things off and switching things on, just picking things up and putting things down and picking things up and stroking the cat and counting the mugs and fighting for air. It seemed that everything they did had already been done and done, and that everything they thought had already been thought and thought, and that this would never end. Excuse me said panic to each of them in turn. They had no mouth and they had to scream. Martin Amis
You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made,' [Chef Bugnard] said. 'Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always. Julia Child
Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations. J. R. R. Tolkien
It seems to me like this. It's not a terrible thing - I mean, it may be terrible, but it's not damaging, it's not poisoning, to do something one wants. It's not bad to say: My work is not what I really want, I'm capable of doing something bigger. Or I'm a person who needs love, and I'm doing without it. What's terrible is to pretend that the second rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better, It... Doris Lessing
Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the projection of where the knowledge can take us. Michael J. Fox
Karl Marx quote: "Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet..."
Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough... Karl Marx

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