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Till the last moment they dress a man up in peacock's feathers, till the last moment they hope for the good and not the bad; and though they may have premonitions of the other side of the coin, for the life of them they will not utter a real word beforehand; the thought alone makes them cringe; they wave the truth away with both hands, till the very moment when the man they've decked out so finely sticks their noses in it with his own two hands. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Such is the tragedy of girls and women who by the strictures of their upbringing and culture cannot own up to their body's desires, even to themselves. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelingshave been worked up by a quick succession of events, the deadcalmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Marcel Proust quote: "Men may thus have several sorts of pleasures. The true..."
Men may thus have several sorts of pleasures. The true pleasure is that for which they give up another. Marcel Proust
Some people seem to think that I began by asking myself how I could say something about Christianity to children; then fixed on the fairy tale as an instrument; then collected the information about child-psychology and decided what age group I’d write for; then drew up a list of basic Christian truths and hammered out ‘allegories’ to embody them. This is all pure moonshine. (from the essay Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s To Be Said) C. S. Lewis
Jeffery Deaver quote: "Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, / He who travels fastest..."
Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, / He who travels fastest who travels alone... Jeffery Deaver
I have three rules to live by: Get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin, and when all else fails, run like hell. Ray Bradbury
But... when I left you, Bella, I left you bleeding. Jacob was the one to stitch you back up again. That was bound to leave it's mark - on both of you. I'm not sure those kinds of stitches dissolve on their own. I can't blame either of you for something I made necessary. I may gain forgiveness, but that doesn't let me escape the consequences. Stephenie Meyer
Got up this morning and could not find my glasses. Finally had to seek assistance. Kate [Winslet] found them inside a flower arrangement. Emma Thompson
Stephen King quote: "Pride was the belt you could use to hold up your pants even..."
Pride was the belt you could use to hold up your pants even after your pants were gone Stephen King
Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it. L. M. Montgomery
She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no center of earth pieties, of grave endearing traditions, to which her heart could revert and from which it could draw strength for itself and tenderness for others. Edith Wharton
I would've asked him to bring a shovel and come to help me dig a body up. That was what a boyfriend should do, right?"-Sookie Stackhouse Charlaine Harris
There are new gods growing in America, clinging to growing knots of belief: gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of radio and hospital and television, gods of plastic and of beeper and of neon. Proud gods, fat and foolish creatures, puffed up with their own newness and importance. "They are aware of us, they fear us, and they hate us," said Odin. "You are fooling yourselves if you believe otherwise. Neil Gaiman
I remember the master, before he fell into a doze, stroking her bonny hair - it pleased him rarely to see her gentle - and saying - 'Why canst thou not always be a good lass, Cathy?' And she turned her face up to his, and laughed, and answered, 'Why cannot you always be a good man, father? Emily Bronte

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