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Warren Zevon quote: "We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read..."
We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.[Inside Out (VH1)] Warren Zevon
J. K. Rowling quote: "Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it..."
Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes. J. K. Rowling
In the end, he had to admit, he didn't really understand her. He didn't understand women. He didn't understand men. He didn't even understand children very well. All he really understood, he thought, was himself and the rest of the universe. Neither anything like completely, of course, but both well enough to know that what remained to be discovered would make sense; it would fit in, it could all be gradually and patiently fitted together a bit at a time, like an infinite jigsaw puzzle, with... Iain Banks
My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and called the police to report him for child molesting. He had never molested me, but I wanted to have a party that weekend and needed him out of the house. Chelsea Handler
Steven Wright quote: "It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot...."
It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself. Steven Wright
He had known in times of the greatest misery or danger that his dreams of home, in which all things seemed beautiful, were in essence his longing for the woman for whom he had been made. That was how, as a soldier, he had seen it, and it was how he had come through. Mark Helprin
The more you discipline yourself to use your time well, the happier you will feel and the better will be the quality of your life in every area. Brian Tracy
For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving with a tortured tension that is growing from decade to decade, as toward a catastrophe: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect. Friedrich Nietzsche
Privately there were some things in Heaven of which she did not approve. There was too much singing, and she didn’t see how even the Elect could survive for very long the celestial laziness which was promised. She would find something to do in Heaven. There must be something to take up one’s time – some clouds to darn, some weary wings to rub with liniment. Maybe the collars of the robes needed turning now and then, and when you come right down to it, she couldn’t believe that even in heaven... John Steinbeck
I should like to knock their silly heads together. What is the sense of laughing all the time? They are not saying anything funny. Agatha Christie
Nature does not often say 'See?' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply 'Here!' to a body's cry of 'Where?' till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome, outworn game. Thomas Hardy
Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?"He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this", he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose, "distracting? Suzanne Collins
A danger of travel is that we may see things at the wrong time, before we have had an opportunity to build up the necessary receptivity, so that new information is as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain. Alain de Botton
Mitch Albom quote: "It might seem strange to start a book with av ending. But all..."
It might seem strange to start a book with av ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just dont know it at the time Mitch Albom
She thought to herself, "This is now." She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago. Laura Ingalls Wilder

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